Tag Archives: Windows

Reboot

Phew, thought I’d made a massive cock up. I had a little dabble in to Linux yesterday, and Ubuntu is pretty good, but it still has a way to go in becoming a usable desktop replacement. Having decided it wasn’t … Continue reading

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

No thanks

Spyware virus tool for special download. Just go to this dodgy website and download the ‘tool’ they so kindly supply.

Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Gates of hell

Having just read The Daily Princetonian – A conversation with Bill Gates having followed the link on Steve’s last comment I read with interest the last couple of para’s: It’s not the physical format that we have the issue with, … Continue reading

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Installation complete

Right, finally. Got my system pretty much back up and running. Streamlined XP to SP2 and installed. Thank God all my games are on a separate drive, or I’d have one HELL of a Steam download to do again. Still … Continue reading

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Woot!

And lo, much Stargate was had. And there was much rejoicing. Now to spend another day fixing computers, i wonder if i can remember how to do 98…

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Finally

Doh! But the bluetooth works now. Very useful site that.

Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Need input

Geekzone, mobile forums have a useful page on bluetooth and SP2. Not sure if it works yet though… lol.

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Too many packets

Hmm, so what could overload a machine and continuously flood a network connection? Something with a built in SMTP server perhaps? Doh! Not sure why NAV auto-protect didn’t pick it up, but had 2 suspect files which are now gone. … Continue reading

Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Again?

And now the Eclipse FTP servers have gone down. Oh well. I guess it’s just my amazingly good timing. Makes a change after the whole net going down yesterday. That reminds me, I must do the windows updates on the … Continue reading

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Man down

Well, Linux has screwed my system well and truly once again. Is it me or is it imposable to get rid of the boot loader. Now XP won’t even install. Grrr.

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment