Archive for June, 2006:

I’ve finished my college course finally! 16 weeks (more if you count the breaks) of 6-9pm on a Thursday, coupled with a good few hours in the week for assignments.

This evening I’ve just got to hand in my portfolio of work, then that should be it! Time for some beer! Well tomorrow evening at least…

On a side note, my motherboard arrived this morning at 7:30am. Normally I would be happy and I suppose I am, but I fell straight back asleep once I had signed for it. 7:30 is sleep time.

Next week I’ll order the memory (£200 for 2gb of decent Corsair DDR-2) and then build it all up and test it out. Managed to grab one of the rare AM2 X2 4000+ 2mb L2 Cache chips before they were discontinued. And before you say - I’m not going Intel and Conroe or Conartist, whatever it is. I’d rather continue being an AMD fanboy, if you can call it that… I refer to it as AMD enthusiast instead.

As you may, or may not have heard - Windows Vista is in its Beta 2 stage and is available for public evaluation.

I decided to download it after reading many forum posts that said it was actually good. It seems that after all the bad press, people are coming round to the idea that it may be worth upgrading to.

If you want to download it, head on over to the official Vista website, where you can get either the 32 or 64-bit version, on either DVD or via the web. One word of warning - it’s over 4gb in size.

Microsoft have teamed up with a small company to give you a download manager to get it too. On first impressions, it looked like a Bit-torrent client!

I started downloading Vista yesterday morning, but after 19% it corrupted and ended the download. I then left it be for a good few hours, until I had another go. Luckily the 2nd try proved successful and I’m currently burning two copies of the 64-bit edition, for use in my new PC once it’s finished. Hopefully there wont be any problems dual booting it, but you never know with beta stuff.

I’ll let you know what how Vista Beta 2 installs and runs, once I get round to it.

I wish we could grow extra arms, not permanently, but just for when we really need them.

I’m hoping to sort out the loft insulation in the roof, so that I can put all the stuff back up there - and so that I can get my server back up and running, in the roof.

I also want to carry on with Red19 and watch the 7 or so DVDs sitting here, waiting patiently. Then there’s television (though it’s usually shite at the weekend) and beer. The fridge is full of beer, with a few sauces (ketchup, mustard etc.) and not much else. Which reminds me, I should also do some food shopping. Then there’s my portfolio to finish for my college course…

So, let’s grow some more arms!

Some pointless info for you…

Slickhouse.com has received over 10gb of bandwidth traffic this month - and there’s still a week left.

It might not sound a lot, but it normally hits around 2.5-3gb, so 10 is nearly 4 times as much!

It’s down to my Red Nineteen project mainly, as it has received nearly 8000 hits so far on bit-tech alone…

My on-going project, named Blue PC has been renamed:

The reason for this? Well Blue PC wont end up being blue. At all.

The name came from a suggestion on the Bit-tech forums - to expand on the Red theme and the Acer F-19 Ferrari monitor. The logo above was put together by yours truly in Photoshop, using Ferrari’s font and some good ol’ virtual carbon fibre.

Check out the bit-tech log here, or the slickhouse forum mirror here.