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Speedtest Meme

Joe — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:16:12 +0000

Mine is a little low considering when we signed up the ISP said “you’re looking at around 6.5Mbps”

Roll On 2008!!

Joe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:47:31 +0000

Just a quick post (I know I’m a bit late and whatever, but still).

All I want to say is Happy New Year to all, and I hope it’s a good one

Ubuntu 7.10 64-Bit

Joe — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:13:12 +0000

I’m just about to install the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), and I put the disc in while I was still in Ubuntu, and I noticed something strange on the root of the disc. There’s a file called wubi-cdboot.exe and I can’t figure out why it’s there, because as far as I know, Ubuntu doesn’t officially support Wubi.

If anybody could shed some light on this it’d be nice Also bear in mind it’s one of the official pressed CD’s

Christmas

Joe — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:47:18 +0000

Sorry there’s been no update over Christmas, I’ve been busy as I’m sure everybody else has Hope everybody has had a good Christmas and has a great New Year, I’ll post more in the New Year

Office 2007 Disc’s

Joe — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:07:53 +0000

As I mentioned earlier I received the disc’s for Microsoft Office 2007 earlier, and I didn’t expect them to be full retail versions of the disc’s or anything, I expected OEM versions. Either way, the first disc is all fancy and what-not (there’s an image below) and the 2nd is just a plain silver disc.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Joe — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:57:08 +0000

I’m currently using Vista Service Pack 1, and I have to say…it’s not much different.

I’m well aware that there’s many change’s ‘behind the scenes’ which make improvements here and there. But to the end user, there’s not really much difference, except the disappearance of the “Search” option on the Start Menu.

I also have service pack 1 for Office 2007 (Ultimate Edition) and I haven’t really noticed anything different about that. Speaking of Office, I received my back-up disks today I only wanted them because I knew they’d be official printed disk’s

South Africa

Joe — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:39:00 +0000

Had to play at the Baptist Church this evening. Went alright, messed up one song, but it was fine.

Got a shock afterwards when the minister (privacy and whatnot means I won’t name anybody…sorry, lol) asked me what I thought about going to South Africa.

Didn’t get what he meant at first, but it’s July next year, basically missionary work etc. Not sure if I want to go…though it would be an experience. Anyway, enough of that, I’m sleepy.

Post!!

Joe — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:29:00 +0000

Before I start – I installed Server 2003, and it’s up and running, so far so good

Anyway, I actually got some post today, although it wasn’t anything that I’ve been waiting for for about 2 weeks now, it was something that I’ve been waiting for, for about 5 days. Take that into account AND it was posted from the US (L.A in fact) and then it raises some serious issues with the Royal Mail, I mean, I know there was that postal strike not so long ago, but still, I ordered these things AFTER the strike, so surely they shouldn’t be affected by it?

It’s just annoying

Windows Server 2003

Joe — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:23:00 +0000

So my University is part of the MSDN Academic Alliance, which basically means that I get Microsoft software for free!!

So the point of this post as I’m sure you can tell is that I’m downloading Windows Server 2003 to try out on an old PC, which only just meets the minimum system specs, but nevertheless, it’s a PC that doesn’t need to be in perfect working order all the time.

If it works it should be quite good and I’ll look at converting another PC into a server (one that has a bit more Spec’s) possibly even using Windows Home Server instead.

Games On My Laptop

Joe — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:23:00 +0000

I saw Black and White 2 sitting in my room earlier, and check the back, because I’ve not played it in ages. I noticed the system requirements, and the fact the, except for not having a dedicated graphics card, my laptop was far above them.

So I decided to install it, thinking that if it doesn’t work I can always just uninstall it, no big deal.

It worked! It runs really smoothly as well, quicker than it ever did on my desktop PC. Although the graphics options are turned down to low. Other than that, all is good, so I’m just installing The Sims 2 (I installed Theme Park World as well, which is a great game, I love it). Also installed C&C Generals + Zero Hour, which ran on full graphics lol, but I removed them, because I won’t play it.