What is it with gardeners ? I live in a block of units. Each Thursday morning, the body corporate has a guy come around and vacuum the carpets in the hallways and also clean the footpaths and driveway. For the outside areas he uses one of those blower-vacs, which has to be one of the … [Read More »]

John Dvorak writes an interesting article about Linux as a desktop OS – and apparently IBM has a desktop OS based on Linux in the labs somewhere ! I haven’t seen anything like this myself, but there are rumours everywhere about stuff that is supposed to be happening this year within IBM. There were several … [Read More »]

The new PC is working well so far. I’ve even managed to get my DVRaptor DV Video capture card working under WindowsXP (although the jury is still out on my old copy of Adobe Premiere v5.1c – apparently it should work, but I have really tried it on my new machine yet). I’m still working … [Read More »]

While building my new machine, I’ve been checking for updated drivers, software patches and firmware for my software and peripherals. I have a Sony DRU510A DVD burner and I discovered that Sony have released updated firmware (now up to 1.0f) which apparently improved the reliablity of DVD writing amongst other things. Not only that, but … [Read More »]

Well, after a second trip out to EYO to swap over my RAM, I now have a working machine. The EYO people recommended some Corsair RAM that was actually cheaper than the Kingston RAM I had originally purchased. It’s not quite as fast as the more expensive RAM I was considering, but the differences will … [Read More »]