It’s been a while since my last post, so while I’ve got some time to burn at 3am, I thought I’d type up a few of my reactions to some of the technology news as of late.

The AMD/ATI merger

This one really freaked me out. AMD, one of my most beloved computer companies, was merging with ATI, a company I often refer to as the spawn of Satan, at least when I’m feeling polite. However, it didn’t turn out as bad as I thought, as rumor has it that AMD will be open-sourcing some of the ATI video driver. If this is true, then hopefully linux will be able to finally get decent suppport for ATI hardware.

WWDC 2006

Technically, this is still going on, but most of the fun announcements have been made already. (Or have they?) First off was Mac OS X 10.5, which was expected, but cool nonetheless. Next up was the Mac Pro, the successor to the PowerMac G5. Featuring four 64 bit CPU cores at up to 3.0GHz, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB of hard disk space, this thing is insane. The Mac Pro is the last Apple computer to transition to Intel processors, and is also the first to feature Intel’s “Core 2″ line. I’ll probably pick up a 15″ MacBook Pro once their notebook line follows suit.

Carputer Linux

Yeah, I haven’t done anything on it. So shoot me. I finally got a CD player for my car, and now that I can listen to music while driving, I just sort of forgot about Carputer altogether, but it’s still on the backburner in case I ever get bored in the future.

gTorrent

This is one I feel bad about. After making a fair bit of progress, and generating interest on ubuntuforums.org, I haven’t really done any work on gTorrent in recent weeks. Short as it is, I was hoping that my Summer Break would give me time to work on this project.

World of Warcraft

Some of my so-called friends were kind enough to introduce me to World of Warcrack. Maybe someday I’ll forgive them. If you want to see it’s effect on my productivity, see above. It also caused me to install Windows XP on my laptop, something I would usually consider unforgivable. But I can quit whenever I want to… really, I can…

School

School starts up again in just over a week. Looking forward to going back, seeing some old friends, and most importantly, getting my GPA back up. (Summer semester was not kind to me.)

So, that’s that, at least until I’m bored enough to bang out another post.