I've been introduced to the delight (or distraction) of "The Guild": a geek sitcom about a group of MMO players who make the mistake of meeting each other for real, and finding out that they're unfortunately too much like their characters ( Read more... )

CPU Upgrade.

My Games machine has a socket 939 motherboard. It'll take an Athlon 64 X2, or an Opteron.

http://global.shuttle.com/Support/SupportList.asp?Item=SN25P&ver=SN25P%20(FN25V1.x,V2.x

Tom's Hardware doesn't even mention ( Read more... )

Pah. XP installs. and SATA. I hates them, I does.

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Delivery from Amazon at 8.30 this morning. I got to the front door just as the delivery guy was putting a card through the letter box, having already passed the box over to my neighbours.

10 minutes later, most of which was getting in to the packaging (I was very asleep), I had a new line at the bottom of my partition table.

Filesystem ( Read more... )

Having been juggling the installs on my home machines recently, I needed to relocate the hard drive which contained my home directory (and, more usefully, the details for my online banking ( Read more... )

A while ago, I rewired the network at home. This resulted in ( Read more... )

I was having problems with my cable modem on Friday: it had hung 4 times in the preceding 24 hours, requiring a power cycle to restart. Even in internal web-server was down, so I couldn't get any status information from it ( Read more... )

You might think that PC World's main business was ... selling PCs?

Oh no. That'd be too obvious.
( the backstory )

A while back, our sysadmins decide to lay into some of the shell scripts we'd got.
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Conversation on Thursday night revealed that bluedevi felt an emptiness in her life where Babylon 5 used to be. And so she was pointed in the direction of Battlestar Galactica. Since I haven't got season 1, but I knew that zandev does, we inveigled our way over last night, only to find out that he can't find his copy of the miniseries (the two part, three hour ( Read more... )