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Archive for March, 2008

Vista’s a gimp. My PC is also.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I have endless patience with the work PCs in my care..why can’t I do the same with my own? Sigh.
I rebuilt this rig last year..it has:
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800 SFF 35W CPU
Gigabyte M61SME-S2 motherboard
2×1gb DDR2667 RAM sticks
Onboard Geforce 6200 GPU
1×80gb SATA (XP), 1×20gb IDE133 (Vista) hard disks
SATA Lightscribe CD/DVDRW
All connected up to a very […]

MM..DSL goodness…

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

We have internet! Drat. I also have a soggy keyboard. Sigh.
Yes, Plus.net activated us bang on schedule. I now have an “upto 8mb” connection, sat at..hang on:
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 448 / 7,776
Not bad for the same price as Tiscali that could barely hit 2, and the support from Plus.Net is outstanding!
So, We’re […]