Fresh Start

I just reformatted all the drives, and reinstalled Windows and Linux onto my machines. This is to make up for efficiency lost after months of game installing/uninstalling, incessant downloads, useless application installations, accumulation of random files, etc.

Only issues with Windows was with the new NVidia video drivers – they rendered any videos on screen with maximum contrast. As such, every movie was consisting of only primary colours. Installing older drivers (those included on the Battlefield2 CD) fixed the issue.

Only issue I can find with Fedora Core right now is the lack of audio. Still working on that one…

Furthermore, I’m trying to get a drive with which Linux/Windows can interact. Mainly so if I start Bittorrent downloads with one OS, I can complete it whilst I work with the other. There are a few possibilities – use FAT32/vfat. Small issue: The drive is bigger than the largest amount allowed under the filesystem; and I don’t feel like cutting down the drive into smaller partitions. The other, and more interesting possibility, is adding reiserfs support to Windows (and FC, if I choose to continue using it).

There’s a neat little project for adding native reiser support to Windows – rfsd. Its currently in active development, and the current pre-release requires you to go through some steps upon each reboot (easily accomplished with batch scripting). Interesting alternative.