Yesterday I had a go at installing Windows 11. My PC is not compatible (some components, like the motherboard, are a decade old), missing Secure Boot, TPM, and a compatible CPU, but there's a fairly simple workaround to bypass those prerequisites.

Anyway, it installed in less than an hour, and had no issues at all. Everything is working and behaving ( Read more... )

D&D is going very well (with the Monday group, at any rate!). We've been running on Foundry VTT for remote gaming. I downloaded a town for Foundry, complete with various buildings all set up, and I fleshed out the plot suggestions with townsfolk, creatures, plots, etc. It a lot of prep work, but very enjoyable. Foundry is a really amazing system, ( Read more... )

With the loadshedding we've been subjected to, we're looking at better battery backups. My old, depleted, 600VA UPS is enough to hold up the router, fibre, and access point for only about 2 minutes, so I need to get a bigger one, maybe 2kVA. I'm looking around for good prices on those.

The battery for the gate and the garage seem OK, and we're not ( Read more... )

• Thu, 09:56: I upgraded my PC's hard drive last night. I hadn't realised it was so simple to move Windows 7 to a new drive. #fb

• Sat, 13:17: Just saw a Mac Mini being used for point of sale at a clothing store. First time I've seen a Mac used for POS. #fb

• Fri, 17:50: Almost every time I deal with HP printers, I am forcibly reminded how truly horrid the HP printer software is. #fb

• Tue, 09:57: RT @ AkiAnastasiou: The iPad 2 has the same processing power as the Cray 2 supercomputer which was world’s fastest computer in 1985. #fb

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• Tue, 09:52: RT @ AkiAnastasiou: Just how thick is the WACS cable with 5.12 Tbps? This thick > http://twitpic.com/4mpnzu