A personal archive · 2005 — 2024

Journal archive

2006

From the journal archive.

4 entries

Windows Genuine Disadvantage

Sick of Microsoft sticking it's nose in your computer turn off the phone home facility of the Windows Genuine Advantage spyware. http://www.firewallleaktester.com/removewga.htm

Another dead hard disk

Another disk drive died today. This one was the system disk of my HTPC which runs Gentoo. I first noticed the problem when it dropped off the network and then was taking forever…

BRW Triathlon - Melbourne

I competed in the BRW triathlon today. I managed to finish the 400m swim, 10km bike ride and 4km run in 56 minutes 20 seconds. I’m pretty happy with that for my first ever…

Upgrade Home to Professional

c’t 12/2005, page 148 – Windows XP HomePro Windows XP Home promoted to Professional This is great! Finally people can all use the good feature of Windows XP Pro even if they only…