A simple matter of…

Now here is something that’s really neat. If you’ve ever built a PC you’ll know how tedious it is to fit all those front panel connectors. At least, unless you have an Asus motherboard in which case you receive a Q-connector which you plug the fiddly connectors into (nice and easy since it’s a [...]

Well, I was a bit disappointed the other day to go into the BIOS of my PC and discovering that “Virtualization” was set to disabled and that I wasn’t allowed to change it.
So, I sent an email off to ASRock asking what’s up (I know several manufacturers disable it and won’t turn it on [...]

Ah, that old chestnut. Well in planning my new setup, I need to come up with a naming scheme. I have an old naming scheme, but there was no big pattern to it (basically mythological creatures).
Ideally I’d like something with several sub-classes to it, e.g. DMZ, test, etc.
I’ve so far seen:

famous computers (e.g. [...]

Well I’ve RMAd the graphics card and obtained a refund, now I just need to see what happens with ATI’s DX10 cards and await the new Nvidia cards mentioned for the first time

As I mentioned the other day, I’m going to be purchasing some monitors to replace my old trustworthy Iiyama visionmaster pro 450.
My normal way of working many years ago was:

1600×1200
netscape or emacs full height at right hand side about 2/3 screen width
three xterms arranged vertically down the left hand side

This used to work brilliantly, a [...]

Just thought this up on IRC and thought it was amusing:

AeroPain: when your machine isnt fast enough to run Vistas eye candy

Well sometime ago I was looking at getting a new PC, but held off for Intel’s Conroe CPU (aka Core 2 Duo). That worked very well as it’s a superb chip and even if I went with AMD, they’ve decimated their prices (they had dropped a lot already, they’ve just dropped another 50% apparently!).
Here’s [...]

Well I think it’s about time I started looking for a new PC now that

In an effort to make life faster the next time I do this, I’ve documented the changes I made to the pre-installed

Well it’s been quite some time since I last wrote an entry - if it is any consolation I’m on my second day (just) of using the