My new toy
Posted by Rob Holmes in Hardware, OS on May 22, 2009
For my birthday I wanted to get a netbook, so I could use it on site visit for repair computers and networks. It took a long time for me to decide on which I wanted and went over a lot of reviews. Then about 1 day before my birthday, I found this. My mind was made up, but it was to late for my birthday. So I ordered it later with the money I got given. So the other day, it turned up! I also ordered a bag and 2Gb of Curcial RAM. This was from the Curcail website and was VERY good, ordered on Sunday and came on Tuesday! I will use you again!
So here is a nice picture of it.
It comes with 1Gb, which I soon replaced with the 2Gb, this help a bit (Not a lot, but worth the £21). I also had a little play with XP, before uninstalling all the shit that samsung like to install (mcafee! OMG). I then decide (Well, i had before I got the netbook) that ubuntu was going on it in dual boot. So I could still use XP for repair work and alike, but ubuntu for general work. I got Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 (9.10 is currently borken, damn). This is very nice OS, love the interface with the launch panel filling the desktop. Really work on a netbook. Its pretty fast, thought does have problems with hibernation (It doesn’t work…).
The battery on the thing last nearly 7hours, with wifi off and brightness down a little it should reach 7.30. Its light, and keyboard isn’t to bad. The touch-pad is the only thing that lets it down, cos the keyboard is large. The mouse buttons are a little, well, cheap. They need to be stronger. But that is only a small thing and you get used to it.
I was thinking of putting windows 7 on, but holding off for now, as XP will help more in repair computers, as I don’t have a XP machine now, only Windows 7 and Vista. XP is to old, lol.
I have also upgrade my main rig for my birthday. It now has 2x WD 320Gb SATAII 16Mb in RAID0, which boosted my WPI to 5.9 (CPU 7.4 GPU 6.2). I will post on that this weekend hopefully, I am having a little room move around to make a bit more space.
Office 2010, coming to a office near you!
Posted by Rob Holmes in Software on May 12, 2009
Yes, the new Office package is getting ready for technical perview. You can sign up here.
If you need a little teaster, well there is this. Yes its office the movie!
Little project for my dad
Posted by Rob Holmes in Personal on May 10, 2009
My dad has been working on a new ‘Covered sitting out area’ over the last few weeks, and its not complete yet, but the roof went on today. So i thought I was post some pictures for you all to see.
First without the roof
From the lower path
From the path, the bridge on the left is for our railway (16mm narrow-gauge)
The inside, the railway will come in to the sides (Through a hole) and round the back of the sitting area
Here is the left hand side, the hole is going to be cut
Here is the rest of the lower garden and railway
I will post some images when its done and try and find a picture of it before (As I forgot to take one). Back soon!
A clean computer is a happy one
Posted by Rob Holmes in Hardware on May 5, 2009
On bank holiday Monday, with a nice day off college I had a little clean up around the place, windows and shit like that. I also decided to clean my computer, as it over a year old now and about time it got a clean. So I thought I would show you some pictures, before and after like!
This shows the GPU been cleaned, but I also got all the dust out of my radiator in the bottom of the case that cools the water cooling loop for the CPU. I cleaned all the case and window and now its dust clean, for 10 mins anyway! The GPU redced it idle temp from 67 to 60 and the CPU from 34 to 24 so not bad! (BTW that isn’t CPU cores, they are around 49/50 marks idle in windows)
So remember kids, a clean computer is a happy one! Now I am off to install Windows 7 7100 RC from my memory pen 
LAN Rack
Posted by Rob Holmes in Hardware on May 2, 2009
Ok, so I have been working a creating a LAN rack, so it keeps all my LAN stuff together and makes it easier to use and upgrade. It also saves a LOT of space. I currently have:
1 Linksys WRT54GL (DD-WRT)
1 Linksys WAG200G
1 TP-Link 8 port Gigibyte Switch
1 Level One 16port 10/100 switch (Not in use)
1 Netgear 24port 10/100 Switch with uplink (Not in use)
1 ATEN MasterView 8 port KVM OSD (With 5x3m cables)
The rack is made from 2 6U rails, it has 2 1/4 MDF ends. I also have a 1U cable spacer.
So here are some images. It is sat on a 3/4 MDF self I fitted in the corner of my office.
My desktop
Posted by Rob Holmes in OS on May 1, 2009
Now I should really be posting some big blogs and developing my article writing, but as I was post on other site I thought I would post it here. Its my desktop! I am currently running on Windows 7 Build 7077 waiting for may 5th to get the RC. So here it is:
Office 2007 SP2
Posted by Rob Holmes in Software on April 28, 2009
Yes, its out and its coming down my windows update right now! Thanks to www.windows7center.com for telling me this.
Here is a link for the changes
Paper transformer!
Posted by Rob Holmes in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009
I little video I picked up off www.windows7center.com
Unbelievable! Paper Toy Transformer … – The funniest videos clips are here
BF1942, a step back
Posted by Rob Holmes in Games on April 26, 2009
I recently was asked to look in to playing BF1942 for my LAN (More info soon) and, as it was my fav game of all time, it wasn’t long until I was back flying around in the old B17 bomber and spit fires on the game. Its such a good game just so easy to play and have fun with. The AI is shit, the graphics for the time were good, but not now. O and game play isn’t..good. It just has a special factor that many games miss. You can play it over and over and never get bored (On LAN and internet anyway). I can’t wait to get 12 people fighting it out over wake island all over again! Bring in the LAN!
Hello world!
Posted by Rob Holmes in News on April 26, 2009
Hello and welcome to my blog. I have made this site so I can post about interesting things to me. I aim to post 2 a week with new info.
The main content of the site will be IT related, with hardware, software. I will also be post funny videos or events in my life.
The site will be fully running by the end of this week! Bye!
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