So I am still continuing to use this Windows 7, somewhat because I don’t have media to install Windows Xp again, but mostly because I haven’t found any big problems in using this. There are some minor ones though, one being the Aero affecting performance while playing World of Warcraft and having to reboot my computer every once and a while. But nothing big has came up yet, so I’ll keep on using this and let you know if something big and bad comes up.

Surely you have heard about Piratebay right? Well if you haven’t, it is an bittorrent tracker site, that people can search for torrent files from. You can use torrent files to download files pretty easily, but torrents are often used to download copyrighted material for free. It is often used for downloading truly free material, and sometimes it is used to sell copyrighted material. Piratebay got sued for having torrent-files for copyrighted material on their servers, and even though they claimed that there are no illegal files on their servers, they lost the case, have to pay big fines and maybe even go to prison.

There has been a big twist in Piratebay now, when company named Global Gaming Factory X Ab is buying pirate bay for 5,5 million euros. Half of the amount is payed as money and rest as stocks. Global Gaming Factory X Ab is going to keep on distributing files, but in a way that copyright owners will be payed for the material distributed. The whole thing has been confirmed in Piratebay’s blog.

Now Piratebay is closing their trackers and deleting torrents and most of the people are wondering who is Global Gaming Factory X Ab going to collect the money they are paying for the copyright-owners. I myself think that they will be collecting money from the users, with a fee everytime you download a file or maybe a monthly fee. I don’t really care about what happens to Piratebay, since I haven’t used it more than 2 or 3 times. I am curious to see how this ends though and I will be keeping track of what is happening. See you next time.

My Windows Xp installation went broken big time. I couldn’t get myself to fix it, so I decided I would try to install Windows 7 beta to my computer(mainly because my big brother happened to have disk for it), so I could get to use it faster. Installation went smoothly, just inserted disk and rebooted, chose some stuff and pressed next couple of times. After installation everything worked pretty fine and the stylish looking fish desktop background was showing from my monitor. First I had to install drivers for my graphics card which I could get directly from the Ati’s driver site. Couple of reboots to install all needed drivers/software, like avast! for virus-scanner, daemon-tools and such.

Then I went to see if I could find a way to get it to my own language, to find out I could change display-language directly from control-panel by just downloading a file from windows update. Some minor things are left untranslated though, but that doesn’t really matter, since it’s just the beta after all.

Feels certainly faster than my broken Xp and my parents Vista, even with Aero enabled(disabled it for improved performance though). I couldn’t know that this is beta, if it wasn’t for the little text in the bottom-right corner on the desktop telling me that. Desktop looks cool by the way, with all those neat widgets from Vista and background that you can set to change like every 30 minutes or so(don’t know if you could do that in Vista though).

My desktop looks like this at the moment:

I will maybe write more about this later, have to go swimming now. I am boiling at the moment, because outside it is 30 Celcius in the shadows. See you later!