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As discovered by Long Zheng of istartedsomething.com, Microsoft is shipping a new set of sounds for WIndows Vista Ultimate.

Unusually for Microsoft, this has been kept ultra-secret. Developed by a black-ops team deep inside Redmond Campus Building 512 Sub-basement labs, even the most in-the-know Microsoft...

Weewar.com owes me a weekend. Recently out of private beta, I am now totally enthralled in moving my board pieces in a somewhat strategic way to crush the opposition.

What is Weewar? It is a small-scale (hence the use of the cute Scottish word, wee) board game. Playing against other people, you move...

I have just returned from a weekend in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. Being a family gathering over two days, many digital photographs were taken. And mostly not by me.

And I gave my camera to my 5 year old neice and sent her outside to take photos. Soon, the camera returned full of photos and...

LEGO saved my childhood. A childhood geek deprived of computers, D&D and other geekdom in country South Australia. However, my parents did over supply me with Lego.

Lego is more than a set of training tools for future 3D maths wizards and engineers. The blocks are unique units of imagination. Want...

This Part 3 of a 3 part series on My Dream Machine (Part 1, Part 2)

Tuning.

I finished Part 2 with a Windows Experience Index of 4.7

Stated goal: an all round 5.9 for all measurements.

Off to order more bits, and change some components in the beastie: General Melchett.

Tweaking time.

Video Card.

At...

This Part 2 of a 3 part series on My Dream Machine (Part 1)

Tinkering with bits and pieces is a part of growing up on a farm. Attempting to repair a motorbike's fuel system, fixing implements with some wire and a rope, through to more traditional toys such as Lego, meccano and electronics. However, I...

This Part 1 of a 3 part series on My Dream Machine (Part 2)

I am a software guy. Install software, tune the bits, configure the system. Find the limits. Show others how to use it. Software has been the central theme of my geek journey. A Hardware Guy? Well, not so much.

Traditionally, Dell and Apple...

Windows Home Server has been in our home for over 2 months.

Sitting quietly underneath a bunch of other PCs, it just works. From an earlier posting, I decided to purchase a TranquilPC from the UK. Plugging the server in and turning it on just appealed to my sense of simplicity.

Since my last update,...

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Dentists don't bother me. Due to an absence of nerves, they can repair my mouth and teeth without anaesthetics. The prospect of installing the 64 bit version of Windows Vista Ultimate scared me more.

The word-of-mouth on the use of 64-bit Vista has been "leave it for servers" and "be very...