I am an ufficial upgrader.

I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate on both my desktop machine and my Macbook Pro.

On the Mac, there were some issues with drivers, which I could quickly overcome thanks to this page.

I must say it’s a nice, smooth OS. There is a lot of eyecandy and you won’t be disappointed by the features either.

The only thing I can complain about is it being a bit too caothic, even for long-time Windows users such as myself. Links to various features (control panel, device manager, etc.) move basing on what you have used recently, and you really can get anywhere from anywhere, although, eventually, you have no clear idea of where everything, in fact, is.

But then again, you can always turn off pretty much anything new and use the old visualizations. Which I am not going to do. Because that’s the best thing about having a new OS on your hands: exploring.

On a side note, PlentyOfVids.com is still going strong, with 2000 unique users and around 7500 pageviews per day and 250 registered users (and counting).

Leave me a comment with your thoughts on Vista, you splendid thing.

I read a very interesting article some moments ago. It is a very good analisys of the social networking madness which is taking over the web. Or better, Web 2.0 (hell, I am so tired of this term. Aren’t you?).
I really believe there are some golden nuggets in there. Only time will tell, but I think it predicts some of the turns the Internet will take.

Read it through. For now, I’ll make sure to subscribe to that guy’s feed! :)

Edit: On a side (and quite funny) note, I found the article itself on Digg.com, a very popular social networking site.

Technology is nowadays evolving at an unbelievable rate.
We are able to do things, today, that would have been impossible but a few years ago.

I am amazed by this growth. It excites me and it really is the expression of anything that there is of great and wonderful in the human mind.

But does the internet also impoverish art and knowledge?

Internet is the first utopia of mankind becoming reality: it is a totally free, self shaping and ever-morphing environment. Everyone counts as much as the other one and people really do have the power on the Internet.
It’s the world’s entire knowledge at your fingertips.
Think about it for a second. It’s like a miracle. Having everything there, RIGHT THERE for you.

Having such an effortless access to knowledge and art, though, could dangerously mean for you to feel like those things are of small value.

It’s just like what they tell you in marketing courses: a lower price doesn’t always mean more sales. You have to find your sweet spot: price your product too high, and no one will buy it because they think it’s a rip off, price it too low and you will convey the idea that it is of small value.

If you bought a book for 50$ you’re not gonna throw it away at the first boring part. You are motivated to keep at it, because you invested in it. It has a value for you because of what you spent on it. Be it mere money or effort to find it.

A lot of the music, games, books you get (illegally) for free on the internet have suffered this loss of percieved value. And that is way worse than any concern the RIAA may have.

You wanna kill a painter, a writer or a musician? Just watch, read or listen to their work once and trash it without even TRYING to understand it.

That is what I think is the only trap of the wonderful world wide web.

So, my message is the following:
Art and knowledge, for how cheap they may come, are always the most valuable things in this life. Their value is a spiritual value which calls for a payment in mental effort to understand and appreciate them.

I recently took the time to record, edit and publish a video tutorial on how to log in and spy through unprotected webcams. I found restaurants, shops, private homes. It’s a lot of fun and you should try it.

Anyway, here’s the video: