Rex Flex

To the average user, Microsoft’s recommendations to either uninstall the Netscape browser or fix a specific code in the registry makes no sense.

Most computer users have no idea how to install or even uninstall software. Trying to fix something foreign such as the registry is like reading Greek in Latin.

Then again, those who have downloaded the Netscape browser are not your ordinary users; They are on the cutting edge, the cusp. They are also the real minority.

According to figures from w3schools.com which is a site frequented by the Browser elite, Netscape is not even a pimple on a mole. For them, the real browser battle is between Microsoft IE and Firefox. Microsoft makes up 65% of use while Firefox is now up to 25%.

That is a big WOW and it doesn’t take a degree in foreign archaic languages to understand the significance.

Last May, according to the wschools.com users, Microsoft IE was booming at 82%. It has dropped 17% in a year. This is the case despite the fact that virtually every computer has IE as the default browser. This means that people are walking with their fingers. Netscape still has a chance to pick up steam. Once it gets rid of some of the bugs and the bad press, it might start to inch its way up and might cut into both Firefox and Microsoft. Still, the average user is going to continue using what comes easiest and the geeks will play with the browser that has the buzz and the stability.

You can see that due to Internet Explorer instabilities and those trying to poke holes in it, there is room for change. The browser war is far from being over. Much will depend upon the satisfaction of Apple, the maturation of AOL and competing technologies that want to be the window to the Internet world, even if their name in Latin, Greek or even English is not Windows.

(Source: BayouBuzz)

Personally I use Firefox and I love it.

I found out that I’m receiving a 25% scholarship to attend Northface University. I’ve booked the trip out there to attend the open house Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th. It should be exciting to finally see the place I’ve heard so much about.

I’ll be sure to keep everyone, that’s interested, updated about what’s going on with Northface.

Well, today while I was on my lunch break I gave the person collecting all my papers at Northface University a call to see if he had received my college transcript. He said that they had and the board was reviewing my application as we were speaking. Later that day while I was at work, I get the call. “Pack your bags, you’re commin’ to Utah!” I was so excited, but I was at work, so I couldn’t show too much emotion and excitement because the boss lady might have gotten upset. Wednesday I’m being put in front of a scholarship board so they can decide what type of discount, if any, I may receive. The school gives one 100% scholarship, one 75% scholarship, one 50% scholarship, and several 25% scholarships. Hopefully I can get something, because tuition to this school isn’t cheap. Based on the huge success of my previous charitable funds, I may decide to create yet another. Yes that’s right, Tuition Funds For Rex (TFFR) has been founded. Please email me if you are interested in donating anything. I would be applying for tons of scholarships, except I’m a middle class, white, American male, this pretty much excludes me from any scholarship I could have hoped to get. Class starts July 13th, so I don’t have a whole lot of time to really do a whole lot here.

In other news, I found someone else that believes in individualism, right here under my nose. That’s right, another Libertarian does exist! I believe this is one of the first that I’ve found living near me since I identified myself as a libertarian.

Work is coming in very steady now. Today I worked from 10:30AM to 6:00PM, which is pretty nice. Tomorrow I’m going in at 8:00AM and I’ll get out whenever, I’m not exactly sure when. Boss lady said something about us maybe working some overtime, which would be really nice, because I need to earn about $1000 in order to purchase my new computer to replace my old one. Which shouldn’t be too hard to do if the checks stay steady for the entire duration that I’m here.

Since I have to be at work at 8:00AM, I’m going to go ahead and make the “new computer” page, then goto bed. Until next time.

Well, it seems as though my computer has finally bit the dust. Last night I noticed it was running a little slow, so I closed amarok (it sometimes uses more resources than it should. It was still running sluggish, so I ran ‘top’ and saw that ‘amarokapp’ was using like, 97% CPU, which means when I closed amarok, it didn’t completly quit every thing out. I went ahead and ran ‘killall –9 amarokapp’, and this is when I ran into trouble. Suddenly my computer cuts off, I look down and the orange hdd light is steady, along with the green cd-rom light. I hit the reset button, but it did nothing, so I held down the power button for a few seconds for it to go completly off. After that, it wouldn’t start back up. So, I am now without a desktop. Right now I’m using my laptop, which has a 2.8ghz celeron and a whoping 128mb ram (talk about bottle neck). It’s running gentoo linux, which makes it run a lot faster than when it had windows xp installed.

I had the phone interview with Northface and everything went very well. I decided to go ahead and apply, after all it’s just $35 and a couple hours of my time to fill out the online application form if I don’t get accepted. If I do get accepted, I’ll be in for a lot of work for the next couple of years.

Prom is tomorrow, and I have to go try on my tux tonight to make sure it fits and everything. I’m going to go pick up my check from work at 1PM. Work has been on and off for the past few months, but supposedly 750 boards have been shipped, and 2000 more are on the way. That should keep us busy for awhile.

I’m really just ranting now, but this post is really just here to let you all know that my computer is down, so I won’t be on aim/yahoo/msn/jabber as much. When I get a chance I’ll make the page IE compatible and get all the other pages up. I wouldn’t worry about making the page look nice on IE, except a great majority of my hits are coming from users on windows, running IE. Speaking of hits, they have been coming in pretty steadily. I think this is because of jokes and other strange articles that get posted that other sites link to.

That’s really all I have to say for now, if for some reason you want to donate to the Rex Needs A New Desktop (RNAND) fund or the Rex Has Future Hosting Bills (RHFHB) fund, shoot me and email and I can give you further directions ;).

It seems like this weekend has been a movie marathon for me. Last night I watched Great Expectations and Kingdom of Heaven. Both movies are really good and I’d recommend them both. Today was more of a comedy movie day, I saw a double feature consisting of Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. If you get a chance, watch all four of those movies, they’re all really good. I’ll probably watch Great Expectations again this week before I have to return it.

A few weeks ago I got a letter in the mail from Northface Univsersity and it sounds really interesting. I filled out the form to have them contact me. When they called, we talked for awhile, then I had a phone interview scheduled with one of their admissions representatives for Math 10th, at 7PM. It really sounds like a neat school and I’m really interested in going. Monday morning I’m going to talk to my old high school counselor about it and see if she has any suggestions. Class there isn’t like a regular college where you take a class here and there. Here you go to class from 8AM to 4PM, with an hour lunch mixed in there somewhere. The problem with that is I can’t really be expected to work much (if at all), if I goto class during the day and get a lot of homework that I’m expected to do it at night. Me not working could have a pretty negative effect on me going there.

I’m planning on writing a theme/layout/template that matches the site for the photo gallery. After I do that, I’m going to write the downloads, projects, and tutorial pages, all to match the blog site. It should be a pretty cool site when I finally get it all up and running. Today while I was going through my site stats, I noticed my first referrer. I was linked on TalkLeft about the article I posted on the REAL ID. It’s something that should be strongly opposed by anyone that has any respect for a person’s freedom and privacy. I hope that everyone reading this will visit the EFF site and send a letter to their representative. It’s simple and takes less than two minutes. On that note, I’m out of here, off to bed so I can get up and talk to the counselor.

If you visited earlier, you may have noticed the theme was being modified. For now I’m going to keep it with this theme until I get the one I’m working on completly finished. I’m just about done with it, so be on the look out.

I’m really liking wordpress, it’s very easy to create a new theme and manage everything within my blog. With starkBlog I would have to go in and edit some source or something of that nature, which wasn’t too bad as long as you knew php (helping to code it didn’t hurt either). Using this really makes me realize that starkBlog has quite a ways to go before it can even compete. All of the “big bloggers” are using web applications such as wordpress, movable type and all these other huge projects, that starkBlog is just too small for them to even think about switching. There are so many features in all these big applications that starkBlog can’t even compare.

Today I went into the DPS (Department of Public Safety) to get my five year driving record to get my first ticket dismissed. It’s weird I have to go get a five year driving record when I’ve only been driving for about two and a half years. It says that I have no convictions, which is a little weird because of my speeding ticket, but I’m not complaining. Tomorrow I’m going to run over to the court and get my ticket all taken care of, a full four days in advance I might add. I need to get on the ball with things, I have a report due for class in about six and a half hours, that I haven’t even started yet. I think I’m going to write it on the Mona Lisa, but I’m not quite sure; it’s for humanities.

I’m going to be working on getting the comments moved over sometime this weekend. I’ve got so much going on lately that I’m not even going to be able to think about it for awhile. My girlfriend is getting cable, so I need to go over there and setup her network maybe sometime next weekend, because I’m such a nice guy. We chatted for about three hours tonight, well me and her mom chatted for about two hours tonight about what all she’s going to need to setup the network and we chatted for about an hour. It’s a simple wired network. I’ve never dealt with a wireless network and I’ve heard a lot of bad things (Jon) so I figured a wired network was the way to go.

Anyway, I’m going to get started with my project, so I’ll talk to everyone later.

My check sent to DreamHost has finally cleared, and the hosting has been setup. You can now access my site from http://rexflex.net. I’m planning on importing all of the old news from starkBlog into the new blogging system (wordpress). I’m going to go with wordpress for all my real blogging while starkBlog receives some more work. When starkBlog is suitable for everyday use, I’ll then import everything I’ve entered in wordpress thusfar, back into starkBlog. You still with me, here? Anyways, wordpress has several advantages over starkBlog, obviously, it’s more mature and has many more options. I don’t plan on hanging starkBlog out to dry, though. You can see all the latest developments at http://stark.rexflex.net/ as soon as I get it all setup.

It’s almost 4:00AM and I have a huge economics final in about six hours. Please excuse my while I go crash.

1. I can see your point, but I still think you’re full of shit.
2. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce.
3. How about never? Is never good for you?
4. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
5. I’m really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way.
6. I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter.
7. I’m out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.
8. I don’t work here. I’m a consultant.
9. It sounds like English, but I can’t understand a damn word you’re saying.
10 Ahhh…I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again…
11. I like you. You remind me of me when I was young and stupid.
12. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
13. I have plenty of talent and vision; I just don’t give a damn.
14. I’m already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
15. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
16. Thank you. We’re all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
17. The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
18. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
19. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!
20. I’m not being rude. You’re just insignificant.
21. And your crybaby whiny-assed opinion would be….?
22. Do I look like a people person?
23. I started out with nothing and have most of it left.
24. If I throw a stick, will you leave?
25. Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed.
26. I’m trying to imagine you with a personality.
27. Chaos, panic, and disorder-my work here is done.
28. How do I set a laser printer to stun?
29. I thought I wanted a career; turns out I just wanted a salary.
30. Who lit the fuse on your tampon?
31. Oh I get it…like humor…only different.