My darling new laptop regaled me with yet another jolly memory parity error blue screen of death message today. Tomorrow I shall give Dell another tinkle and see if they will let me exchange my RAM. Parity to the people! … [Read more...]
Black boxing taxis
September 25, 2006 By Leave a Comment
I was chatting with a student the other day about an interesting proposal to stick a black box in all of Milan's taxis. This box of tricks would be linked to GPS, UMTS and other services and would be able to tell just what the ideal route for a destination is, meaning that the old trick of taking … [Read more...]
Windows start up time
September 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
OK, so I now have a laptop with a cutting edge cpu, lots of ram, a fast hard disk and a reasonable graphics card, so why is it still so slow? Let me make myself a bit clearer, it's not slow to open applications and to apply graphics effects but it is slow in starting up and shutting down, and I … [Read more...]
New Dell laptop
September 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
My new Dell 6400 pc turned up today. It's one of those wide-screen things, it has a hottish CPU - a 2ghz core duo 2, 1 gig of ram and a 7200rpm 100Gb hard disk. It does seem much faster than my 3 year old Sony, thankfully. However, unlike my three year old Sony I have already had to call … [Read more...]
Thunderbird and Fastmail.fm
September 15, 2006 By Leave a Comment
For e-mailing I use a combination of the desktop client Thunderbird and my email provider, a company called Fastmail.fm which is based in Australia and offers a primarily IMAP based service. IMAP, if you do not know, is an email system which leaves a copy of your mail on a separate server, unlike … [Read more...]
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