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• Wow installed new video driver, no reboot

  That was impressive. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:43 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers

• W00t running Windows 7

  The upgrade did not work, but it seems to have installed on my second drive without breaking anything there. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:39 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers

• I seem to be upgraded

  I think it is finished, well sometime on Saturday it finished. It would have been nice if there was some indication of progress during the upgrade. The black screen eventually went away and I could log in from the console. For a while things stopped working, Read More... Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 1:56 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers

• Wish me luck, upgrading to Windows 2008

  If my server is offline for awhile this is why. The reason I am upgrading is that the new stuff I am playing with i.e. ASP.NET MVC works much better on IIS7. Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 678 678 0 0 0 0 Files : 218482 218482 0 0 Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:41 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers

• New Computer with 8GB RAM

  I jumped a little ahead and didn't wait for any price drops. Boy am I happy with my new machine it is very very fast. There have been a few minor issues with Vista 64bit but overall it has been good. I purchased it assembled from NCIX, just used there Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:41 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers

• Vista 64bit Experience

  The Good Lots of Memory, my regular usage is just over 4GB, so no swapping with 8GB of real RAM. Most things work with out any issues. This is much improved over my experience trying 64 bit in beta. Very fast file transfers, between two my two main machines Read More... Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 10:56 AM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Vista, computers

• DD-WRT v24 SP1 is very cool

  I just upgraded from v23 SP2 to the new v24 SP1 firmware from dd-wrt . I am hoping my internet connection is more stable with the new release, since I moved I have been having intermittent issues where the connection drops for a few seconds throughout Read More... Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:54 AM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers, networking

• Trying hard to justify a new computer

  Going over my receipts for the last year in preparation for doing my taxes I realized I haven't upgraded my computer in a couple of years. My current machine is almost 4 years old, but since I first bought it I have upgraded the CPU and video card. Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:10 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: gaming, computers

• Getting Rid of Books is hard

  Do I really need: Turbo Assembler 3.0 The X Window System Programming and Applications with XT X Window Applications Programming Using X PC Interrupts and many more I don't think I have looked at any of them in over 10 years, they are almost books Read More... Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:06 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: misc, Development, computers

• Wii Mote Head tracking

  If you don't read Penny Arcade you may have missing this . It is pretty cool. I playing around with it a little. If you don't want to move your senor bar as he suggests, just multiply things by -1 to flip things around and use the remote instead. Read More... Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:46 AM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Vista, computers

• MyBook World Edition II - taking back to Costco

  A nice impulse purchase at Costco 1TB of network storage, seemed like a good idea, I was running out of room on my other drives. Too many MSDN downloads and other large files. According to the box it came with some backup software and some remote access Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:15 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers

• My Database backups actually worked

  I lost my boot drive on my server this evening about 5 hours later and pretty much everything is back up. I really should look into backing up the OS too. Any problems let me know. I am probably missing something. Read More... Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 12:51 AM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: computers

• Mac Mini likes and dislikes

  After one day of owning a Mac here is a list of things I like and things I don't. Things I like. When I first booted up it asked if I had a bluetooth mouse when it detected I didn't have one, and later it asked for a keyboard. It recognizes ISO Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:13 PM by darryl | 5 Comments Filed under: computers

• I now own a white computer

  It is nice to see that the shipping box is just the right size for the mac mini inside. Then you get to the instructions. Now the computer. Now the remote on its own layer. Finally the power bar It is to bad Apple shipped the mouse and keyboard separately, Read More... Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 11:56 AM by darryl | 2 Comments Filed under: computers

• Vista still not 100%

  Creative finally released drivers for their X-Fi cards just after Christmas installed them today and I now have sound. Once that was working 3 reboots later I decided to check if there was any new video drivers. nVidia released some new drivers for Vista Read More... Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 7:37 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, computers