Creeva’s World 2.0

Some ran­dom thoughts though I’m cur­rently away from my laptop.

One thing I noticed last night is that things con­sis­tently down­loaded faster on Ubuntu com­pared to Vista (and I had bet­ter speed in vista then XP). So points are def­i­nitely on the TCP/IP stack in Ubuntu com­pared to Win­dows. The dif­fer­ence I noticed was so sig­nif­i­cant for me that I won­der why more of the power game that attempt to squeeze every last kilo­bit out of their net­work con­nec­tion for latency and speed doesn’t migrate over for some games.

Issue I don’t like — some sites (like my blog) don’t ren­der the same way — not ter­ri­ble or nec. wonky but dif­fer­ent — my blog for exam­ple doesn’t look right. It’s not just the fonts which are slightly dif­fer­ent — the site’s CSS is slightly off in Linux com­pared to win­dows. The irony of this ordeal is that I’m using Fire­fox in both envi­ron­ments. You would think that there would be the same ren­der­ing engine in the back-end, but I’m not so lucky. So this will go into hunt­ing down CSS fixes.

I did get unlucky that Star Wars Galax­ies man­aged to upgrade to a new launcher while I was in the mid­dle of this — guess I’ll have to login via the desk­top until I man­age to get the launcher working.

WoW is work­ing but is slow — I need to reduce the res­o­lu­tion from the size it’s using since that’s is caus­ing most of my issues — it just crashes when I change it — I found some answers on cor­rect­ing these issues online today though.

All in all suc­cess­ful — video ren­der­ing looks bet­ter then Vista — I’ll keep post­ing as I have findings.