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Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:04 PM

Gotta love 661 hours uptime on Vista :)

I was looking at my Task Manager today to see if a thread had fallen "asleep" as i had a non-responsive program running and I got sidetracked. In my performance tab i noticed a piece of info: Up time.. Well the figure i had there surprised me...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:50 PM

Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk

I don't know how often i've had to delay playing with a new piece of released technology, just because I was in the middle of another set of tests and simply didn't have the time to create my own virtual server environment again to accommodate...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:31 PM

Windows Update - Error Code 80040154

For a few days i've had a nasty windows update error - it kept failing to install updates and gave an error code (80040154) which i couldn't really find much information about for Vista. Finally i found an obscure newsgroup entry which just briefly...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:54 PM

Networking Virtual PC 2007 on Vista

I decided to forego the pleasure of a BIOS upgrade to my desktop and install Windows Server 2008 in a virtual environment - gotta love virtualisation!! Well, the install went very well and took less than 30 minutes even with the lack of resources. Firs...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:57 PM

Windows Vista Problem Reports and Solutions

A nifty feature of Windows Vista is definitely the Problem Reports and Solutions feature, which collates the problems you've had with your OS, Software,Drivers etc and waits patiently for a solution to show up. At first glance that's brilliant - it's...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:39 PM

Hamad Darwish's Vista wallpapers rock!!

One of the skills i'm absolutely lacking is the ability to pick and take good photos. I swear i've bodged up more photos in my life than the average person has eaten peas. To make matters worse, Hamad Darwish's skills (he's not actually a photographer...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 9:41 PM

Strange Vista behavior - 60K memory on processes?

I've had a few crashes lately and i'm not sure what's causing it as i haven't really done anything major to the system. I did run a "windows critical update" on the 15th (that's thursday) which by all appearances was installed correctlyl. but having looked...
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Friday, February 23, 2007 10:30 AM

Small Vista nuisance - restore points

One of the little things that can annoy you when you run Vista is that it's constantly creating restore points whenever you install or uninstall software. granted, in case of emergencies (such as corruptions or crashes) i'm certain i'd be very grateful...
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Friday, February 02, 2007 7:11 AM

Windows Vista webcast available

Most probably noticed that Vista has been released and on the night of release, Bill Gates did the keynote in Times Square in New York city. I attended the webcast, together with a ton of OEM partners, and it was pretty good. As flashy as can be. ClicketyClick...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:41 PM

Logitech SetPoint 3.3 32/64 bit for Vista released

Finally - another good piece of news. The Logitech SetPoint v3.3 for both 32 and 64 bit for Vista has been released. still dissapointed that they waited this long when it's known that business users had access to Vista since November '06. ClicketyClick...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:43 PM

I thought i was smart...Logitech is smarter tho..

Thinking to outsmart the brilliant driver support setup on the Logitech site, i downloaded and installed the Desktop Messenger. Now this application is meant to check for updates and notify you once your drivers are out of date. So true to Logitech's...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:21 PM

My Vista experiences so far...

Being a geek - a total geek - i tend to grab technology as soon as it's released in even alpha or beta stages. I always want to be on the front of playing with new applications. so, true to my nature i installed Vista, albeit a bit later than normal when...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:31 PM

Windows Vista...

Finally i get a few moments to install Vista - have had it since the RTM got announced but just haven't had a spare moment to get it installed. So, tonight i figured i'd better give it a go - a few things worried me quite a bit. 1) was my hardware up...
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