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Nick Hodge is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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US: Vista x64">Laptops in US: Vista x64

Sorta kinda pre­dicted this; now CNet finds it is true. “64-bit Vista finds a hom on con­sumer laptops”

SP1: Self Hosted Installs">Vista SP1: Self Hosted Installs

Rather than down­load­ing the update on each of your Vista PCs, it might be bet­ter on your ISP band­width charge to download once:

Win­dows Vista Ser­vice Pack 1 Five Lan­guage Stan­dalone (KB936330) 32-bit
Win­dows Vista Ser­vice Pack 1 Five Lan­guage Stan­dalone for x64-based Sys­tems (KB936330)

SP1 Performance Metrics">Vista SP1 Performance Metrics

Magazines love to do per­form­ance tests. If there is a spe­cial stream at AIS spe­cific­ally for time keep­ers, magazine journ­al­ists should apply for Gov­ern­ment grants to improve their skills!
APC Magazine has a run down of the per­form­ance changes in Vista RTM (late 2006 Vista) to Vista RTM Patched (what people are gen­er­ally run­ning today) and […]

SP1">General Melchett goes Vista Ultimate SP1

Whilst Gen­eral Melchett has been Vista x64 from birth, we Microsoft people were recently given early access to the final Vista Ser­vice Pack 1.
Last night, I down­loaded the updater. Backed up Gen­eral Melchett. Double clicked. And watched.
So, firstly a note to all. When the installer says 1. Sev­eral Reboots and 2. About an hour — both […]

CPU Temperatures and Overlocking">CPU Temperatures and Overlocking

In my research in the con­tinu­ing over­clock­ing research for Gen­er­al­Melchett, I’ve found that 55degC is a little warm for a pro­cessor.
The 8800GT is now installed and work­ing well. Just wait­ing for the two 22″ Dell LCD mon­it­ors, external speak­ers and new Geek­Desk for the home Geek­Space and we are go!
Admit­tedly, Gen­er­al­Melchett has been burnt in over […]

Weekend Project: Windows Media Center

Yes, I know that the cor­rect eng­lish spelling of Cen­ter is Centre.

Thanks to the gen­er­os­ity of Jeffa, I scored an old Mini-ATX case with power sup­ply. Yeah, being the junior on the team — I get all the hand-me-downs.
Some hun­dreds of dol­lars later from AUS­P­CMar­ket, and I have my first ever:

AMD based PC (AMD Athlan64 x2 6000+)
Gigabyte […]

istartedsomething and “wonder patches”

Thanks Long for the point­ers. Have installed. Had USB hub issues yes­ter­day — I won­der if these updates will help?
I just love soft­ware: it just keeps get­ting bet­ter, in the field.

MINI, The Geek Stories">John Gallagher: MINI, The Geek Stories

JohnG, the nicest man on the planet, will­ing let me into his house to film another epis­ode of The Geek Stor­ies. Mayling filmed a behind the scenes show… which will be inter­est­ing to see, too. Server racks and a com­pac­tus in the games room. Now that’s impress­ive!
So, do you have Australia’s geeki­est house?
Tech­nor­ati Tags: mini, thegeekstories

PC with 512Mb of RAM? Install Vista Home Basic">PC with 512Mb of RAM? Install Vista Home Basic

Ed Bott, from ZDNet in the US recently tested Win­dows Vista Home Basic on a 2002-vintage PC with 512Mb of RAM — and found the oper­at­ing sys­tem respons­ive and usable.
Sur­pris­ingly, even the visu­als on this sys­tem were a treat. With a three-year-old video card, this sys­tem was cap­able of run­ning Vista’s Aero graph­ics. But because […]

Microsoft Windows Vista support with Adobe Applications

(Link thanks to John Dowdell) Bridging my old world to my new world, this doc­u­ment details the sup­port for cur­rent Adobe applic­a­tions with Microsoft Win­dows Vista. It is well worth a read, espe­cially as Adobe products: Flash Player and the Adobe Reader are very com­mon installs.
Sum­mary: no Acrobat 7 sup­port for Vista, only Acrobat 8: […]