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The TV Out computer in the living room has been slightly re-purposed! There is now a 15″ LCD display in the dining room with a keyboard and mouse hooked up to it for using the internet at readable resolutions! Quite handy!
Our house is getting nerdier and nerdier!
So when I wasn’t running around being social this weekend (that post is for another blog), I was playing with my new install of Windows Vista Beta 2. Here are some of my findings: Read the rest of this entry »
My venerable old Windows XP workstation has received a temporary upgrade in the OS department… Windows Vista has been installed!
The only snafu’s have been the normal ones… For some reason no version of windows wants to recognize my Promise Ultra133 IDE card during install. The post-install configure tool found 90% of the hardware installed on the system, which was a surprise. A very smooth install overall.
The first thing you notice about the OS is the Glitz [TM], but once you get used to it you start to notice the little things. A searchable Start menu, for instance. The iconified Alt+Tab menu. Even the security alerts aren’t bothering me (yet)… it’s nice to know what’s happening on the system.
I’ll likely post more impressions after I’ve used the OS for a bit longer, but so far Vista is scoring good points in my books.
First off:
From that picture, the 17 gb drive seems to have died, taking may Anime episodes and some applications with it. The 20 gb IBM DeathStar is going strong, so that’s all good.
Having the 17 gone leaves me with the required extra Moldex connector and IDE channel for the 80 gb drive I’ll be getting from Auslander when I’m unpoor.
Having found a Maxtor 15 gb hard drive in the Hard Drive Box ‘O Doom, I now have a working OS (after installing it twice… Can’t have the OS on Q: after all!) Thanks to Partition Magic I was able to kill the 8 partitions that was gobbling all the space on my 40 gb drive. I’ve also been able to make my two 80 gb drives primary, and use all the space on the drive (no 7.8 mb unallocated for me!) even thought that takes like 9 or 10 hours to accomplish.
All that’s left is to reconnect the 17 gb drive I pulled to make room for the 15 gb boot drive, and check it’s partition status and I’m done!
Well, Internet Explorer cost me my XP installation. It let in an ActiveX control wich then let in about 10938210897340298432 peices of spyware and Virii.
So now I’m trying to figure out my options. If at all possible, I would like to de-partition the drive that the OS is installed on, and re-format it. Though I might look through the Hard Drive Box Of Doom [tm] in the basement to see if there is a 10 or 17 gig drive down there to act as a new root drive for it. That would be ideal. Then I could kill the old drive afterwards and move all the data to the new drive.
Anyways. I hate XP and it’s inablity to NOT GET HACKED EVERY 15 MINUTES.