Easton (The Quince Man Quincy) Royce

Your Graphics Card Sucks

I know that there are plenty of people out there that will vouch against what I am about to say, so if you are one of those, feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.

While running Windows XP Professional, my graphics card performed as a Radeon 9800 Pro (I actually have an ATI Radeon 9800se – the card that ATI knows nothing about). Thanks to a software modification, I was able to have my Radeon 9800se function as a Radeon 9800 Pro, and boy what a difference did it make! Staggering frame rates in all my games, including Half Life 2 and associated games! Needless to say, I was happy I had been a cheap skate, and bought the 9800se from eBay. Up until installing Windows Vista Ultimate, and a couple of games, my 9800se reborn, was “the ownage” in my little world. Come now the days of my Windows Vista adventure, and my 9800se reborn, plays games the same games like a 16MB Voodoo 2.

In other words, my graphics card now totally SUCKS the big one!!!1111. Even though I downloaded the Vista software modification, the resulting increase in performance was only that of a slight percentage, and for the first time (in regards to my graphics card), it caused my system to become unstable, and even blue screen! Yes! Vista has blue screens!

It seems that Windows Vista, really claims a lot of your video memory, just to run Windows, especially with Windows Aero enabled. Which is interesting, considering the same effects, in fact, even cooler and better effects, can be run on a 16MB voodoo 2, on a machine running Fedora 7, with Beryl/Compiz installed.

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written by Easton Royce \\ tags: 90 Days, Support, Tutorials, Ultimate

Well, I finally did it. I finally managed to import all my old blog posts from my original Drupal driven blog site, to this lovely new WordPress driven blog. How? It’s 5 minutes past 12:00am in the morning. My girl friends fish died today, and I am really cold. In other words, I’m not not going to bother posting a tutorial show-you-how for importing all your Drupal blog entries into WordPress right now. If someone should ask me via the comments, then perhaps I will devise something for you. For now, just be happy for me, that I no longer need to deal with Drupal. Drupal was great, but it was over kill for my needs. In my case, anything that is over kill, leads to endless fiddling and testing!

In the mean time, you can find the solution to Drupals 30 Item RSS Maximum here: http://drupal.org/node/57569

FCOL: I then downloaded the entire feed with FeedForAll. Saved the feed as an XML file and then uploaded that to WordPress 2.2 using the Import facility and choosing RSS.

The only caveat in the whole process, is that all the posts were imported into the default category (blog) where they should rightfully be I guess. It’s just that I created a category called “old blog” and I wanted them all to go there instead…

FCOL = For Crying Out Loud

Oh an FYI: Any links in any posts under Blog, that are “pre 2007″ probably don’t work! If they do, well that’s nice.

Another FYI: quincy.roycesoftware.com now points to this website, not the old website. Yes, I know about the Google API error. Do I care? no.

written by Easton Royce \\ tags: Random, Support, Tutorials, Wordpress