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Archive for November, 2007

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Movember: The Missing

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Movember still rolls along.
Been to Adelaide and back. Now to Brisbane and Melbourne.

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Feet up / Going quiet / Offline

Friday, November 16th, 2007

 
Will be offline / gone quiet / offline for the next week-ish. Travel, decompression-time and other things are needing some cycles.

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How Windows Home Server Saved My Sanity

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The recent installation of the Windows Media Center has been an ongoing major project. Apart from the physical install, there has been a a few ongoing issues:

High-Definition TV "green screen of death".Thanks to the Vista and XP Media Centre forum, this is a known and fixed issue. The Microsoft Hotfix is available here.
Electronic Program GuideAttempted [...]

Weekend Project, Tuesday Update: Windows Media Center

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

 
Update from the Weekend Project.
Some more bits from AusPC Market arrived. We now have audio cable, correct short VGA cable and a new dual channel Hauppauge PCI based Digital TV receiver. Oh, and I applied the thermal grease to the top of the CPU.
A few little cables for internal wiring ease, and the machine [...]

Movember: Day 13; The Errol

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Sorta looks like an Errol Flynn today.

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Movember: Day 12; Geek, Nerd or Bush Ranger?

Monday, November 12th, 2007

My eyebrows are bushier than my mo'
Not shaving the chin until tomorrow so the follicles are not scared inwards.
Read this, then sponsor me.

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LOLCODE on DLR. Download it now

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

John Lam announces that LOLCODE on the DLR is now available.
INVISIBLE HAPPINESS

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Weekend Project: Windows Media Center

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

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 [...]

Movember: Day 11, Lest We Forget

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Observed a minute's silence on Sunday at 11am

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Movember: Day 10, 33% done.

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Caturday. One third the way through. No itching. But there are some hairs growing.

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