Category Archives: Computers

Long chain of sadness (or geekiness)

Well, because I downloaded the DirectX SDK (April 2005) and went over my monthly traffic limit, I have been running uTorrent just because I can, because of this, Xtra has squashed my bandwidth down to 6KB down 8KB up, so … Continue reading

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Shutdown Day

In 12 hours, 3 minutes and well, 40 seconds from the time of writing this, Shutdown Day Begins – see http://www.shutdownday.org/ for details. To summarise (or rather, to steal their summary): It is obvious that many people would find life … Continue reading

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Laptop Computer

Well after about two days of Installing software, I now have a functioning laptop for the trip to Montreal. I was thinking as I installed my often used tools, that it would make a good list of what I like … Continue reading

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Microsoft Virtual PC and MS Domain issues

Well I have just butted heads with our domain policy and Microsoft VPC. The summary of the problem is the domain server and your windows PC exchange a secret password, and it’s updated at a random interview (inside a configured … Continue reading

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Fast and Furious WolfET Gaming

I’ve been playing on an ogn.com.au Wolf ET server (203.206.95.20:27960) for the last few weeks, and it’s been a real hoot. The server is a etpub mod, tweaked with some cool things and most importantly XP save on, so the … Continue reading

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