Who likes it? I made it myself :)

Albeit several years ago, in paint.. I still get a kick out of it.

Edit:

1. It's a goat, not a dog.
2. Originally the black guy was hammering the nail into a railing on his porch.
3. There used to be a second farmer holding the goat's legs instead,

So I picked up Guitar Hero 3 the day after it's release. And once again, I can feel it trying to ruin my life, much like Guitar Hero 2 did in the spring.

I discovered GH2 on St Patty's day 2007, and consequently borrowed my friend's PS2 for a month and stopped going to classes much of the time.

Now, I'm forcing myself to go to classes, but I'm getting even more competitive with the third installment in the series than I ever was. I recently signed up for a Scorehero.com account, and I've been trying to push my rank as high as possible (146 peak so far). My scores can be found here.

On a more review-based note... The detachable neck on the new wireless guitars is a nice idea, but it's causing my guitar to lose functionality since the neck doesn't stay in place all that well. It wiggles a little, and sometimes the contacts seperate from the prongs in the neck and I lose a button or two in the middle of gameplay. Devastating while online.

Speaking of online play, stats now track to GuitarHero.com, where you can link your web account to your Xbox Live GamerTag or your Playstation 3 PSN. Too bad the devs didn't plan for such a rush of people wanting to play and use the website, so stats are all incorrect, or days behind in accuracy while they try to smooth things out.

Anyway, I'm going to get food.
Bye.

The Computer Hospital, started and maintained by deckheadtottie, is since recently run and managed by yours truly.

I've been trying to raise awareness of it, but obviously not enough since people still post questions in General and Programming hoping for a response, usually without any luck. I don't necessarily want to be the only person helping, I actually enjoy when others provide help (as long as it's researched and/or accurate) since it saves me some time and effort.

The idea of a single thread for this is nice, since I don't have to run all over the boards to answer questions, and people who post can be confident they will get a response within the next day or two (usually within hours), and from a user who is typically helpful.

So if you need support, or know someone who does, try the link and I hope you'll be satisfied.
I support Windows 98 and onwards, as well as most Linux distributions.

If you're interested in helping, please just stop by the thread and share what you know with those who need it.

So now...

My history with computers:

I started using computers in 1994, doing little besides playing "Load Runner" or looking up cheats for my console games on the brand new internet. But even then, at the age of 7 I was tinkering with the Windows control panel, changing color themes and backgrounds, font sizes, mouse trails, basically anything I could find.

My parents bought our first family computer in 2001 ( I'd used school PC's before then ) complete with Windows ME. Oh the horrors. I spent a lot of time online looking up how to fix the problems that seemed to just pop up out of nowhere. Finally it killed our hard drive and we upgraded to XP in 2002. XP was new and I spent a long time playing with it, learning where files were, how to move or hide things, and most importantly, how to fix the things I broke in the process.

In 2004 I picked up a job at a computer repair shop, and began discovering how hardware worked and how it didn't. I was taught how to build a complete PC from scratch in under an hour, and what to look for in both good and bad parts. My main task was to install and troubleshoot internet (DSL) for local residents in-home, and in-office, so I learned a great deal about networking during this period as well.

During this time, my highschool offered two programming classes, which I took a year early. The first year was an intro to C++, and the second year built on that. The first class held 50 people, while only 4 (myself included) continued onto the second course.

I left the job a year later, and moved to university in Winnipeg, MB where I'm currently in my third year of a Computer Science Degree. I'm fluent in C, C++, and Java. I have also worked with ASM and Perl, as well as some markup languages (HTML, XML).

In August 2006 I installed Linux for the first time. I had run it on VMWare previously, and tried Knoppix, but nothing serious. I decided to try Gentoo Linux, for two reasons. The first was a recommendation from a friend who ran it a few years back. The second was that Gentoo is known to be a difficult distribution to install, but had excellent documentation. I wanted to take the plunge and learn all I could. So after a 4 day process, I finally managed to install Gentoo. I have been working with it ever since.

This July (2007) I bought a laptop and installed Sabayon Linux (a branch of Gentoo) and Slackware (The oldest and most unique surviving linux distribution) and am enjoying each thoroughly.

My pitfalls lie in two operating systems.
The first being Mac OSX, which I have never used for more than 10 minutes at a time. I despise the lack of customization the Mac offers, and I just can't justify paying for something that uses iTunes as its default media player!

The other is Windows Vista.
Although I have significantly more experience with this OS, I'm not as fluent with its differences from XP as I probably should be. I was a Beta1 tester for Longhorn (before it was renamed to Vista) and enjoyed what it was before UAC, and the other annoyances now integral to the OS. I also tried the final release of Home Premium for a week before I removed it from my laptop permanently to install Linux.

So there you have it.