On Wednesday, Microsoft began releasing its new OS, Windows 10. Because I had reserved a copy through the interactive prompt in my system tray, W10 was downloaded to my computer on Wednesday night. On Thursday, I used what spare time I had to upgrade to the new OS. Will began this process on Wednesday night. We had different installation experiences, totally, and therein lies the tale to be told.
When I arrived home from work on Thursday morning, I asked Will how the W10 install went. He was grumpy and unhappy as he apparently had a lot of compatibility issues with essential components of the world of Xanatos. Xanatos is Will's computer and I of course call mine Nichevo as it is home to the blog and every thing I do. Xanatos is a high powered gaming rig that Will built himself. Will seems to be in a constant upgrade my equipment status to make his gaming experience better. Unfortunately the drivers for his big honker of a video card and his Dolby surround sound are not yet W10 compatible. He found a work around to get the video driver to install but has had less success getting the surround sound to work which pisses him off. That is understandable given the money spent on all the various components, one would want them all to function properly and in concert with each other. This will be an ongoing tale, I can tell that already, lol.
Nichevo on the other hand, barely burped on its way to the new world of Windows 10. Of course, Nichevo is a much less powerful computer and I have no fancy dancy video card or sound system, I have no need of those things as I am not a gamer. I have my two speakers, my wireless headset and my Bluetooth devices which gives me all the listening options I could ever use. Nor do I need a frame rate of 60 to be able to surf the web or post here or on tumblr. Therefore, I did not have any big compatibility issues. I have a couple of things that I don't like because I can't get them to work, but they are only minor irritations. Like the alarm feature will send up the pop up down in the corner, but I cannot hear any sound coming from the alarm. This basically renders it useless as I cannot see a pop up in my sleep. I am not the only user to experience this problem, so that will eventually get fixed in an update. I do have an old web cam that got a prompt saying the software was incompatible, however it works as well as it ever did.
The personal assistant, Cortana, is a handy tool that can be controlled by text or voice command. It does gather a lot of data about you in order to function as designed which has some in the geeky forums raging away. I will bide my time and use it unless Will uncovers a nasty conspiracy theory that scares the bejesus outta me enough to make me stop. I have spent most of my free time exploring this new world and I am sure there will be further updates as I discover things I like and things I don't about the latest offering from the evil empire, stay tuned.
Moving to the Music and the Men, I thought a few soothing piano track woudl be good for all of you who are out there stressing about W10, work, or anything else. So here is a 'Best of ' or 'Greatest Hits' album of the Piano works of Franz Liszt in tow volumes. Part one is posted down below and includes the the following in the play list:
0:00 Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
10:30 Love Dream - Liebestraum
14:45 Etude from Paganini "La Campanella"
19:20 Mephisto Waltz No.1 "The Dance in the Village Inn"
31:03 Trascendental Etude No.9 "La Ricordanza"
41:52 Concert Etude "Gnomenreigen"
44:38 Concert Etude "Un Sospiro"
50:35 Reminiscences de "Robert le Diable"- Trascription from Meyerbeer
1:00:50 Consolation No.3
1:05:00 "Erlkonig" - Trascription from Schubert
Part two and its play list can be found over on my tumblr. The performances in the videos are by various excellent artists for your listening pleasure.
To get you in the weekend frame of mind I have a post chock full of sizzling studs for your perusal in this week's edition of Fantasy Fuel posted down below. Your Hottie of the Day! over on my tumblr, invites you to enjoy his 'Fireside Serenade'. Thanks for the visit, see you again soon. Until next time as always. Enjoy!
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