Facebook readers may have noted my post yesterday, when I mentioned that I was trying to resurrect an old notebook with a dead screen by using a screenreader. I commented:

"Just spent an hour trying to update a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 on a PC with no screen, using speech alone. Haven't felt so lost since 1988. It's currently on 100 of 125 ( Read more... )

I have spent a lot of time and effort this year on learning my way around the current generation of Windows Server OSs, and the end result is that I've learned that I really profoundly dislike them ( Read more... )

So today's small victory was beating my HP Proliant ML110 - the original model from 2004, with a 3GHz P4 in it - into submission ( Read more... )

A final caveat to my previous post: there is one thing you probably shouldn't try doing under XP-inna-VM: play games. The VM does sport optional 2D graphics acceleration, although I've spotted a few display glitches, but the copy of Windows in the VM can't get at your shiny whizzy fanheater of a 3D card & any modern 3D game is going to run like ( Read more... )

I've not had a PC quick enough to really use PC-on-PC virtualisation in anger before, until ednun gave me the carcase of his old one. AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+, 2G RAM, no drives or graphics ( Read more... )