Fun With Macs

Ok In the last two years I have slowly been coming over to the dark I mean Mac side of thinking. I really like that OSX is Unix based and I really like the look and feel of X as well. I even like some of the software Apple has been producing and I think Itunes is superior to Win media player simply b/c Apple was smart enough to make two apps to do two diff. things i.e. Itunes and quicktime instead of win media that tries to do everything but nothing very well. SO since I knew I was going to be getting an Ipod I made the switch to Itunes on my pc's so that I could start getting used to the look and feel and also so that the transition to the ipod would be a quick and easy one. So since nobody ever writes about whats great in the world here is my weee rant.

I have found one of the flaws in Apple. Corrupted files. Yes I know that files get corrupted in a windows environment too but the funny thing is you never hear about it. They dont crash your whole computer, they dont take up all your RAM and clock cycles while you wonder ??? whats wrong. This is most certainly a Mac thing. SO why am I bringing this up. Well right now I am having fun with my ipod. The last couple of weeks it has not been playing well with my laptop and I have done a full system restore 5 times on it. Plus I unistalled Itunes and re-installed. But yesterday I was still having the same problem. Heres what was happening. I would dock my ipod and it would update a couple of songs and then it would just hang. And sometimes it would lock up my whole computer. After really struggling with this for like I said 2 weeks or so I read a post on a board suggesting that this error was caused by a corrupted file possibly system more likely music. Well I have 850+ songs on my ipod. One guy suggested removing them 1 by 1 to try and find the corrupted file! Whatever. SO I thought back to when I started to have the problem and I remember the songs that I was trying to update back then. SO I have restored the ipod again. Removed those tracks from my library and am updating now. Hopefully this will solve my problem and then I can try to figure out which tracks of the ones I removed are corrupted. I just cant believe how much of a problem this has been for me. Well I will probably put a little blurb in later about how the update went. But for now im optimistic.

Game update:
PS1
Parasite eve's bonus level although terribly boring and monotonous is suprisingly addictive. Lisa and I have about 7 levels left before we complete the game and get the alternate ending. Expect a final wrap up maybe monday. I have class tonight so I doubt I will get to play it.

Xbox -- Started playing Metal Arms again and WOW that game is fun. I keep telling my friends who are halo junkies "dude you have to play this...Its like halo....but fun!" Anyway I think the best part of it and even what lisa finds humorous is killing robots. There is just something satisfying about wasting a bot and have it blow up into like a billion pieces all while screaming! ITs such a blast. And the weapons oh the weapons. Halo could learn a lot from the grenade in metal arms. It has a blast radius of like 25-30 feet vs the 5-6 foot radius of a halo grenade. Master Chiefs got some weak weapons. Oh and who cant love a gun names spew. I mean thats priceless ^_^