My eyes are starting to die on me as I now apparently need glasses. So I blame it on the crapy res on the HP HW6910. I’m bored of using 240×320 or whatever it is. I’ve been at that res in black and white since the Aero days ! I can’t wait till the summer or when ever the Glofish thingy is out, so I bought a Pocket LooX C550.
I can’t believe the screen res 
, lovely 480×640, should have done this ages ago. I so don’t miss the keyboard at all and now reading Word docs / emails etc is a joy.
Chris Mobiles, Puters
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.
Chris Puters
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).
Chris Puters
Upgrade time for my PC …
I have a Core 2 6700 sitting on my desk ready to go in.
POWER as Clarkson would say.
Here’s the current Vistas Score -
| Component |
Details |
Subscore |
Base score |
| Processor |
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz |
4.8 |
| 4.8 |
| Determined by lowest subscore |
|
| Memory (RAM) |
4.00 GB |
5.5 |
| Graphics |
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT |
5.9 |
| Gaming graphics |
527 MB Total available graphics memory |
5.7 |
| Primary hard disk |
17GB Free (36GB Total) |
5.9 |
| Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate |
| System |
|
|
Manufacturer |
INTELR |
|
Model |
AWRDACPI |
|
Total amount of system memory |
4.00 GB RAM |
|
System type |
64-bit operating system |
|
Number of processor cores |
2 |
|
| Storage |
|
|
Total size of hard disk(s) |
838 GB |
|
Disk partition (C:) |
17 GB Free (36 GB Total) |
|
Disk partition (D:) |
68 GB Free (373 GB Total) |
|
Disk partition (G:) |
53 GB Free (430 GB Total) |
|
Media drive (X:) |
CD/DVD |
|
Media drive (Y:) |
CD/DVDCD/DVD |
|
| Graphics |
|
|
Display adapter type |
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT |
|
Total available graphics memory |
527 MB |
|
Dedicated graphics memory |
256 MB |
|
Dedicated system memory |
0 MB |
|
Shared system memory |
271 MB |
|
Display adapter driver version |
7.15.10.9734 |
|
Primary monitor resolution |
1280×1024 |
|
Secondary monitor resolution |
1280×1024 |
|
DirectX version |
DirectX 9.0 or better |
|
| Network |
|
|
Network Adapter |
Intel(R) PRO/1000 PL Network Connection |
|
Network Adapter |
Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter |
|
Network Adapter |
Virtual Machine Network Services Driver |
|
Chris Puters
HURRARRRR I’m sooo chuffed. One of my favourite tools has just been updated and released for Vista and XP.
SyncToy is a great simple free syncing program for well syncing data over drives / UNC paths etc. It’s truly simple and just works perfectly. So glad it’s out for Vista, now I can get back to Syncing my stuff again .
Get it here.
Chris Puters
It appears that Vista RC2 is out … the end of the testing is nigh . Build 5744 here it comes.
** Update ** It’s lovely never crashes appart from one right pain in the ass .. nVidia driver mess for DirectX games. All over the web, not long to wait now for Vista final though.
Chris Puters
Vista 5728 installed on the main PC (did an upgrade over 5600). Not noticed any real differences which is to be expected I suppose. Will be interesting interesting if I can get Office 2007 working in this beta .
Weridly though the performance thingy went up from 4.7 to 5.0 which is good I suppose. Just need to get the last few bits of software working like printers, VNC Manager, WinRAR, Nero, FlashFXP and Adobe CS2. Once they’re running on it I’ll be a happy chap.
This new build of Vista installed perfectly on Parallels on the macBook Pro running OS X 10.4.7. Did an in place upgrade, took about an hour and a half and is there working perfectly as before . Still no point in using it in Parallels over XP has the software I like doesn’t work perfectly in it.
Chris Puters
We all love Skype but it’s a pain when you tell it to leave your volumes alone and it fiddles with them anyway. Well in a blatent steel from a mates blog here’s the solution -
- Close Skype if its open.
- Open C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Skype\YOURSKYPEACCOUNT\Config.xml, with your favourite text editor
- Find and edit the existing AGC element and change the 1 to a 0.
- Add a new AGC element as a child to the Call element; again it should have a value of 0.
- Save and close Config.xml.
- Open C:\Documents and Settings%USERNAME%\Application Data\Skype\Shared.xml, and add another AGC element as a child to VoiceEng element; again ensure that it has a value of 0.
- Restart Skype, and test using the echo123 service.
Totaly unabashedly stolen from theangryangel.co.uk.
Chris Internet, Puters
After the problems from my earlier log blog note … like a genius I’ve sussed it in the end .
Looks like it didn’t like the fact that my My Docs was re-located as a mapped network drive. Changed that and it started to give decent error messages.
I did have to manualy completed uninstall Office 2007 Beta 2 though ! Simplest way was to remove all the files and anything I could find in the registry then load the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to clear the MSIs down . All installed and running cleanly in Windows Vista R1 x64 at last.
Chris Puters
