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By the way -

HEALTH AND SAFETY IS THE UNDOING OF EVOLUTION.

Just a quick reminder :).

WHAT IS THE POINT IN THIS.

You people that can’t speak any English and want to have free cash off the state, well learn Welsh so you can speak to other Welsh people. WHY WHY WHY

WHY speak Welsh, why not speak English like the rest of the planet ? Feck it’s sooo sad that kids have to learn it in school. Poor poor poor migrants and kids. Arrr well you can always forget it as soon as you get a chance like everyone else does :).

Still loving my macBook Pro so much so just bought a macBook for the wife. Interestingly though neither of us can use OS X for everything. We both need decent Office to get stuck in.

Thus we’re both running Office 2007 sitting inside Vista sitting inside Parallels. For anyone who’s interested that config runs like a dream on the 1.8 Core 2 Duo with only 1Gb of RAM (macBook). Will be interesting when the full mac version of Office 2007 (2008) comes out. Hope it’s as slick as current Office from MS. Got to say I don’t like Entourage.

I have money to spend and I want to pay to download HD movies to watch. Anyone listening ?
Why on earth is there no way of legitimately buying via download HD movies. Surely the studios are missing a massive trick here.

I wonder if people would pay £15 or more to download each HD film ? I bet people would pay up to £30 per film. Obviously you’d have to DRM the beast but I see a massive business here.

Time to put a business plan together !!

Watch out boys and girls looks like there’s a fault somewhere in SP2 that breaks something in VS system. We run a Windows 2003 Standard x64 server as a host with a number of different guest. One of the guest did have a COM port forwarded into and and we never had a problem. That is until we put Windows 2003 SP2 on everything. Then the vssrvc.exe would sit at 100% CPU even when the guest where doing jack !

Hours of fiddling found out that it was a COM port being forwarded into a guest. You could turn it off and back on again and watch the machine spazz out. And de-installing SP2 from the host did nothing to fix the problem. So we no longer send COM ports to the guests. Not sure if it’s just effecting x64.

Yes the Virtual Server 2003 R2 SP1 beta team have been told and no they haven’t acknowledged the fault yet (263691).

Now this is seriously interesting. A cinema type room but with a load of PCs and screens in where you get in the game. If this is done correctly this could be MASSIVE ! Everyone loves films, imagine a group of mates actually playing the film out. Well that’s pretty much what gaming is.

I love the sound of this and can seriously see it being a complete take over from Films. Only good thing going for film in this area is that you don’t have to do anything. It’s switch off time when a film is on.