This post is dedicated to you.

Everything I’ve ever done wrong in our relationship, I take it back. I’ll look back at the lessons I’ve learned and appreciate it all.

Maybe you’ll look back it and just think of it as a mistake like your other relationships. They’re just times you want to forget and never think of again. And you know what? I don’t blame you at all. I find it hard to believe you put up with everything I did to you all this time. I can’t believe you stuck with me this whole time. I guess that’s why it hurts so much now. I didn’t really realize what I had ’til it was gone.

Maybe when you open that box with my heart inside in the future, you’ll have found a reason to forgive me.

If you don’t know what that means, then you severely need to watch this video:

Total Runtime: 50:20
Bitrate: 192 kb/s

1. Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
2. Lady Gaga - Just Dance
3. Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
4. Britney Spears - Amnesia
5. Far East Movement - Girls On the Dance Floor
6. Daft Punk - Human After All (SebastiAn Remix)
7. Lykke Li - Little Bit (Villains Remix)
8. Metric - Help I’m Alive (Twelves Remix)
9. Cut Copy - Lights And Music
10. 蔡依林 - 日不落 (Jolin - Sun Never Sets)
11. Jimmy Trieu - Read My Mind
12. DJ Stevie So Fly - I Want You
13. DJ Sammy - Heaven
14. DJ D-Tec - The Love Message
15. Special D - Reckless
16. Brisby and Jingles - L’amour Toujours (Original Radio Edit)
17. DJ Encore - I See Right Through To You
18. Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive (Paul Van Dyk Radio Edit)
19. Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
20. Taylor Swift - Love Story (Digital Dog Edit)
21. Shakira - She Wolf (Calvin Harris Remix)
22. 손담비 & 애프터스쿨 - 아몰레드 (After School & Son Dambi - Amoled)
23. MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker (feat. John Legend)
24. Deadmau5 - Ghosts N Stuff (Original Mix)
25. Sander Kleinenberg - This Is Not Miami
26. Little Boots - Remedy
27. Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway
28. Shakira - Men In This Town
29. Andy Williams & Denise Van Outen - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
30. Daft Punk - One More Time
31. Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People
32. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Chew Fu Fix)
33. Daft Punk - Television Rules The Nation / Crescendolls
34. MGMT - Kids
35. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
36. Madonna - Into the Groove
37. Lady Gaga - Poker Face

Just a compilation of some of my favorite songs. You’ve probably heard these songs in the other mixes because well, I absolutely love them!

http://limelinx.com/files/529091a4a2ed96dd37700c81f1825aca

Remember that last blog about Windows 7? Well I got fed up with the driver compatibility so I just gave up and went back to Windows XP. I needed a reformat anyway.

So everyone’s been talking about the hype of Windows 7 ever since the beta release dropped this past year. And then people really went crazy when Microsoft released it for real. And then university students discovered you could get Windows 7 for very cheap or even free! (Cockrell School of Engineering students, check out this link).

This is how my install went… If you just want the screenshots, scroll to the bottom :)

I decided I’d go ahead with a reformat and install Windows 7. My Sony Vaio 645P came installed with Windows XP, so I held off installing until I was totally sure I wanted Windows 7. It’s running 2 Ghz Intel processor, 2 Gb RAM, 160 Gb hard disk space. I’m really into customization of my desktop, and XP was much better for that than Vista. Upon running the install, I discovered that the installer actually saves my old “Program Files” and “Documents and Settings” folders. This is pretty nifty for saving all the music, pictures, fonts, program configurations, etc. I backed those up on an external anyway. Total install time took about 30 minutes.

First thing people will tell you about Windows 7 is that it boots up very fast. I’m used to the three minute wait on XP, but I could definitely get used to booting up in about 45 seconds. The aero theme is one of my favorites, and I always tried to emulate it with WindowBlinds on XP. The user interface is pretty much the same, just a lot prettier. But dig deeper and you’ll realize that Windows 7 has a lot of improvements in how it runs files too.

I had to pause the honeymoon for a moment because I had to install my drivers. Most people will find that Windows 7 does a very good job of discovering what drivers are needed and automatically searches the Internet for them. Sony Vaio drivers, however… You’ll need nerves, patience, tenacity, and determination. But hey, that’s the whole reason you got a Vaio, right? With my Vaio, I have a wireless switch, a Memory Stick reader, video card switch, Fn keys, and two macro buttons. Time to hit up the Vaio support site and get those drivers. Well, first things first, I had to install the latest nVidia driver for my GeForce 8400M GS. Latest one, check. Restart, Windows doesn’t detect it correctly so Aero is still disabled. Wtf? I search Google for a fix, I find out I have to install a modified nVidia driver. So, download, unzip, install, repeat. I finally find one that works. Aero graphics activated. Suite. In the process I had also downloaded and installed a utility driver update from the Vaio support page that makes all my hardware stuff work. I restart, everything is gravy. Until I check my wireless and it’s disabled. What… the fuck. No matter what I do, I can’t re-enable it. I download a ton more drivers, uninstall some random crap but I just don’t know what to do. Well, I do, there’s only one choice left. Full format of the drive. At this point I could care less about all those fonts I didn’t back up or the config files for some programs. I have all my music and pictures backed up, who gives a shit. Five o’ clock in the morning, I’m getting hella tired. Move my wires and stuff to the nightstand, put in Windows 7 disk and reformat the entire drive. Sleep.

Wake up. Okay Windows 7 is back and so is the wifi. Drivers are all gone, so let’s go again. At this point, I didn’t realize it was the utilities driver messing it all up. Vaio has a program that works with the wireless switch to enable 2 Ghz, 5 Ghz, and Bluetooth functionality. I think it got set to 5 Ghz somewhere along the way and I got owned. So I install utilities again and my wireless works fine. Oh well. Pop up. Battery is detected as not correctly inserted? Wtf. It’s in there good. One of the utilities is the battery light. Uhhh this pop up won’t go away. Choices are “Restart” or “Restart.” I try to hide it to try and find a fix but it just re-focuses itself every 15 seconds. Okay! Shut down, check battery connection, everything is fine. Boot up, battery problem again. Oh carp.

Where’s that Windows 7 disk… Full reformat, again. This time not installing utilities driver. So now my battery light doesn’t light up, bluetooth is always on and my S1 S2 buttons don’t work. Not like I used them or anything. Now, I get that video driver installed and aero enabled.

So right now I’m itching for some Team Fortress 2. Haven’t played in like… two days. I have all the files backed up on a drive, get it installed. Run. Everything boots up perfect, until I spawn and I get a ton of lag. I’ll save you the bloody details but I was just being a dumbass and not disabling Aero graphics. I get all the essentials installed: Photoshop, Winamp, Chrome, Office, Digsby, and uTorrent. At this point I’m itching for some customization. Windows 7 does has a really cool feature that allows it to change the background every now and then. For someone who changes their background way too often, this is perfect for me. I look online for some visual styles. I install a bunch.

Then I discover all those themes just look like crap and the only theme that has everything I want is the original Windows theme. It takes me a whole week of tweaking and configuring to discover that.

Now that you got past the tl;dr part, here are some screenshots for your viewing pleasure!

Son Dambi

Just really useful

Aero Peek allows you to hover and thumbnail that window. It’s so simple yet so entertaining. Photoshop is minimized in the last picture, but if I hover the Photoshop button on the taskbar, it will show Photoshop’s original position and hide the other windows:

I also discovered a way to make the taskbar even smaller than when having the option “Use small icons” is checked. It looks a lot like the old taskbar from Windows XP. I was fiddling around in the appearance window, and I found that “Caption Buttons” not only controls the size of the Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons on a window but the size of the taskbar also. So to make your taskbar even smaller: right click your desktop > Personalize > Window Color > Advance appearance settings… Then change the “Caption Buttons” size accordingly. 17 pixels is the smallest it will go, any smaller won’t make the taskbar smaller, just the action buttons on your windows. Only downside is that your system tray icons are really tiny.

Left: small taskbar. Right: original taskbar

While all this was happening, I found Nujabes’s new compilation album, “Mellow Beats, Friends & Lovers.” At first, I thought it sucked. And then I listened to it again. And I found this song. Reformatting and installing Windows isn’t so bad when this song is stuck in your head. Granted, there are a bunch of good songs, and there’s something for every kind of Nujabes fan. Great driving music.

No.9 - After It
http://limelinx.com/files/d87f211d54ffe62f8daf25004815d2bd

Total Runtime: 69:31
Bitrate: 192 kb/s

1. Ferry Corsten feat Guru - Junk
2. Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch
3. Haddaway - What Is Love?
4. Metric - Help I’m Alive (Twelves Remix)
5. Uniting Nations - Out of Touch
6. Daft Punk - Human After All
7. DJ Sammy - Heaven
8. Miley Cyrus - See You Again
9. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (Techno Remix)
10. Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
11. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
12. Bellini - Samba De Janeiro
13. Sander Kleinenberg - This Is Not Miami
14. Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends (Kid Legit Remix)
15. Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
16. Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
17. Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
18. Beyonce - Sweet Dreams
19. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
20. Flo Rida - Elevator
21. Justice - Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
22. Little Boots - Earthquake
23. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
24. Shakira - She Wolf (Calvin Harris Remix)
25. Britney Spears - 3
26. Madonna - Hung Up
27. DJ D-Tec & DJ Crav3 - Hip House Megamix 01
28. Taylor Swift - Love Story (Digital Dog Edit)
29. LMFAO - What Happens at the Party
30. Shakira - Why Wait
31. Pitbull - Shut It Down
32. DJ Crav3 - Disturbia (Jody Den Broeder Remix)
33. Sean Kingston - Fire Burning
34. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
35. Honorebel - Now You See It
36. Far East Movement - Like a G6
37. DJ Antoine - Work (Main Mix)
38. Yelle - A Cause des Garcons
39. Daft Punk - The Prime Time Of Your Life (Tits & Clits Remix)
40. Timbaland - Release
41. Ludacris & Shawnna - Everybody Drunk As Fuck
42. will.i.am - I Got It from My Mama
43. Britney Spears - Amnesia
44. Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out of My Head
45. Shakira - Men In This Town
46. Pitbull - Krazy
47. Madonna - Revolver
48. Black Eyed Peas - Party All The Time

This was originally three (THREEEE) hours long. There are a lot of good tracks on Part 2, but it doesn’t make up for the whole thing. I ended up just cutting it in the middle. Part 2 of this mix will probably go into my next mix.

http://limelinx.com/files/7921a762194aaed66cf0a01bfdd7f551

Like a G6. For those of you wondering what G6 means in this song, it’s referring to the personal jet. Who knew. I thought they were talking about the severely mediocre Pontiac car of the same name.

Far East Movement - Like a G6
http://limelinx.com/files/24861ae34be924a7a71fd85effa86219

I’m looking into buying a Ion iCue USB mixer to mix music with. I played an automix I made at a birthday party this weekend, and it ran out so I had to start mixing live. I found out how hard it is to coordinate it all with one touchpad. Hopefully I’ll be good at it.

Thanksgiving break! I’m just gonna skip all of the rest of my classes. I’m thankful for Jarritos Mandarina soda, the health care bill debate, and Texas football. Not particularly in that order, but I’m pretty happy that our American legislative system is working despite the significant political and ideological undertones. What are you thankful for this year?