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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Well here is its, Windows 7 Release Candidate, the final version of Windows 7 which may be released in August 2009.
Windows 7 x64 edition
I’ve just taken some time out to download the 3GB download, and install this 64-bit Release Candidate to have a look.
I’m still a fan of Windows 2000 Professional, although a bit old these days, and have resisted the temptation to move/upgrade to Vista, apart from on my gaming rig because I needed DirectX 10 for the games.
Windows 7 x64 Edition Scene Theme
Quite a few other colourful themes as well. For oldies like me that like the “classic theme”, the Windows Classic Theme is still present! After 10 minutes of fiddling, here’s my desktop!
Windows 7 x64 Classic Theme
Would I upgrade, not at present. But Nice picture of a Male Siamese Fighter though!
Tags: 3g, andysworld, blog, games, png, upgrade, vista, windows, windows 7
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Windows Vista updated itself today with a CSR Bluetooth update, and my bluetooth stopped working between my computer and phone. I used the rollback feature to rollback the driver to the original driver shipped with the operating system dated sometime in August 2006, Bluetooth started working again! So it just goes to show, sometimes newer updates are not better!
So “IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT”
Tags: bluetooth, computer, phone, vista
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
I’ve seen the BBC have replaced BBC iPlayer Download Manager with BBC iPlayer Desktop which uses Adobe AIR and Flex technologies which will make use of Flash Media Rights Management Server (FMRMS) to DRM-protect content which is downloaded to the user’s desktop. I wonder if they’ve changed this because they were fed-up of people stripping out the DRM with Windows tools. I suppose Mac and Linux users will now be happy, that BBC iPlayer content is available to them, and folks that never liked the peer-to-peer Kontiki software can be removed – I think Sky and Channel 4 4oD service still need this technology.
The BBC still allow you to download Windows Media Player content at present, with DRM! (direct download from website only – not peer to peer)
Tags: 4OD, adobe, Adobe AIR, BBC, BBC iPlayer, BBC iPlayer Desktop, Channek 4, Flex, Kontiki, linux, Sky, web, windows
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Well, I’ve used the repair option on a Windows XP Professional cdrom slipstreamed with Service Pack 2, and then re-applied Service Pack 3, and the networking issues is still present!
Tags: service pack, service pack 3, windows, windows xp, workstation
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
I’ve now struggled for a man week, in repairing my production workstation, so have decided to backup it up using Symantec Ghost 8.0. I know this is not the latest product from Symantec but it works for me. I have a dedicated VLAN in the office for multicasting ghost images around the network, so it doesn’t impact on the main internal network.
After I have a full backup of the operating system, I can then tinker with the service packs and repair procedures.
Tags: Ghost, ghost images, host, operating system, symantec, vlan, windows, windows xp, workstation
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Tags: blog, images, last.fm, mp3, music, png, squeezebox, squeezecenter
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