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Got my new laptop on Friday (18/7/08) and OMG this thing is soo cool. I love tablet PC’s now. Here’s some pics: The laptop is really sweet, and runs really well. Because it’s a laptop, my documents folder is stored on my S:\ which is an encrypted drive, and requires my fingerprint...
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Got my second monitor today, and hehe, I don't have enuf room for both of them. :P But I managed. O and if your wondering what that bottle is doing on top of the shuttle, that's my signal booster bottle. It improves the TV signal so it's watchable when not in full screen.
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OMFG, my processor's idle temp has dropped 10*C since applying Antec Formula 5. Seriously. Usually my CPU would be sitting idle (vista) @ 44*C. Now with Antec Formula 5 thermal grease, it's now idle @ 34*C. That's a huge difference. Here's another amazing fact. From a cold start (PC powered down for...
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Thanks to my lovely technet subscription, I've legally gotten a copy of the SP1 installer. Here's some screens of the installation All of the other screens are from a phone cause I can't take screenshots when vista is loading, lol. Well only one cause I needed some food, but you get the picture. And...
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This weekend I took down my mail server, and home server, and reinstalled it. Upgrading from beta 2 to RC0, I've found RC1 to have a couple more bugs in it with regards to profiles and folder redirections. After installing Windows server 2008, i got cracking on setting up the servers, and joining the...
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I think my GFX card frooze my pc again today, while playing FSX. Restarted the machine (hard reset) and the monitor wouldn't start. Anyhow, my GFX card had a heart attack earlier, so it's almost Killed in Action. O ***! Thankfully just before I started playing I ordered a new 8600 GT off ebuyer for ...
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Ok, just about finished getting my pc back to what it should be, lol, but one thing I've noticed is that my CPU is now running 5*C cooler than it did under 64 bit windows. Hehe freaky. Another cool thing is the Microsoft fingerprint reader, now I had an old one, which had drivers for x64 windows, but...
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Well I've done it. I've installed vista, which took 30 mins, installed all drivers, which took another 30 minutes, installed some programs which didn't need restarting, another 30 minutes, and now just left with Adobe CS3 Web Suite, Office 2007 ultimate and Visual Studio 2008. All of this...
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OMFG, trying to get Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 1 Working on Windows Server 2008 is a fracking nightmare. Firstly, you can install the hub transport role, and the mailbox role, but try to install the client access role, nope, it doesn't like IIS8, lol, nice of the exchange team not to make that work. So what...
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Hehe, got my new PC on Wednesday, a nice new shuttle. It has: nvidia geforce 7950 gfx intel chipset realtek onboard sound Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (overclocked to 2.66ghz) 2 GB DDR2 666mhz ram new DVD drive 8 in 1 card reader new Linksys Cable Wireless Gateway Will be getting a new LG 19" widescreen...
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My mum has hired some workmen to redo the lounge in our house. On Thursday, they pulled down the celine Plaster boards, exposing the beams. This enable the electrician to get in and put new wires in for the new lights, as well as allow me to run a network cable from the understairs cupboard to the opposite...
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I've gotten a new Keyboard and Mouse set, this time from Microsoft. It's the Windows Entertainment Desktop 7000 (Link: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=081 ). I wanted the 8000, but that has been delayed in the UK until September. I'll buy it then, and give...
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The Windows Vista Ultimate Extra - Dreamscene, is now available on Windows Updates, along with a couple of Windows updates and Office Updates. In total, with that new Extra, 5 new windows updates. So as soon as I saw that on there, I immediately downloaded it, and WOW, an animated vista effect as my...
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Got my new phone today, woooo , it's really cool, very light, and holds alot better than my previos XDA, the miniS. Got the GPS software (CoPilot) on Friday last week, so was expecting the phone this friday, but O2 did good and got it to me today, well my mum passed it on to me yesterday. woooooo...
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It's going to get hetict for me over the next 2 weeks as I rush to get a Access Database system working for some university coursework move all of my stuff back sown to plymouth find time to go out with a few mates in aber finally get round to fixing the control panel bug in aero 2.0 find time to keep...