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Windows Server 2008 Desktop Edition
29 February 08 12:44 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   
WS08 Workstation, Anyone?   Apart from those pesky Live applications that won't install (why would anyone ever blog from a Server OS, as I'm doing now? Beats me...), I've had a relatively good run with Windows Server 2008 (x64, naturally) as my desktop Read More...
Anthology Of Interest
18 December 07 12:24 AM | tristank | 6 Comments   
Okay, so there's no interest here, but perhaps an anthology anyway. Yes I've been gone a while; another computer packed it in (this time without my own personal brand of assistance ), I've been off to India (usually 5.5 hrs difference from Sydney, but Read More...
Fear The Hand Of Non-Selection
22 July 07 05:30 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
One of those "remember it for when you need it" posts: On Tiny, I've been unable to select text in the Outlook preview pane for about a month. When I tried to select things, I'd get a not-quite-looking-like-the-web-hand hand instead of a selection bar, Read More...
Two New Updates for Aussie Windows Vista Media Centre Owners
15 June 07 04:11 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
The Media Center dev team have been working to address a couple of problems that have particularly affected some Australian Media Centre users, and we now have updates available from Product Support. While the fixes are available, the KB articles documenting Read More...
Goings On...
19 February 07 03:49 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Quick catchups: While in Seattle, I talked with some folk about IAG and ISA 2006 - all I can say is *wow*. I'm downloading the demo VMs now to have a play. The other *wow* was SoftGrid. Architecturally, wow ! I'm eager to learn more about that. While Read More...
My First Tablet-ish PC
13 December 06 12:24 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   
Back in 1998, I bought a Cassiopea Windows CE 2.0 Handheld PC. It was just under half the size of my current infatuation (the P1610 ) used a fold-out form factor with a 640x200 screen (CGA hi-res!) had a small and fiddly QWERTY calculator-key-style keyboard, Read More...
Windows Vista Performance on P1610
10 December 06 09:52 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
How does a half-size PC perform, you ask? Let's find out what Windows Vista thinks of the setup: Original score: 2.0 {2.7,2.9, 2.0,2.4 ,3.7} Re-test today: 2.4 {2.7,2.9, 3.8,2.4 ,3.7} I wonder what was behind the jump in perf between Setup and now... Read More...
P1610 First Impressions
08 December 06 11:19 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   
I got my Fujitsu P1610 Lifebook care of Hugo on Wednesday, and I have a rather long post on it coming (I know, I could do a bunch of shorter posts, but that'd wreck my quality-is-not-quantity posting metrics for the month!). For now, I'd just like to Read More...
Fujitsu Lifebook P1610 - The First Day (and a bit)
07 December 06 10:42 PM | tristank | 6 Comments   
On Wednesday, my care package from Tegatech arrived - a brand new P1610! I thought there must have been some sort of mistake when the Mail Guy handed me the package, as it was obviously far too light to be a laptop and included bumf. Plus, it was just Read More...
Why I Don't Win Awards For Intelligence Very Often*
22 October 06 01:51 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   
a) I always get the whole "sneaking" thing wrong in Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Ah tristank, you are so clever! A pun on Intelligence!) b) I just spent about, oh, two-and-a-bit hours on and off today working out how to get Outlook to look at the IE7 Read More...
My PR is 4. What's Yours?
25 February 06 03:00 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Let down mainly by my cheap (but serviceable for games) video card, I rate a 4 in the Windows Vista Performance thingummy. Makes it nice and easy to plan for my next upgrades :) Whadayaget? Read More...

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