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Oooh, it’s on the way!

Neil Lathwood — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:25:04 +0000

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm

I have a 4G version on it’s way to me for tomorrow. Can’t wait to have a play and see what all the hype is about. I’ll post my comments/thoughts up when I have tested it for a bit.

t00t

Ryan asked what the desktop is like so here we go:

Those messages you love to see

Neil Lathwood — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:39:13 +0000

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:49:03 GMT Standard Time:
[hpt374]: Array ‘RAID_5_0′ rebuilding completed.

After a day of sweating, this is exactly the email that I wanted to get. Thank god for raid 5 that’s all I can say

The day the routers died

Neil Lathwood — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:09:48 +0000

Watched this video at the Ripe training I’ve been in on for the past two days and it is awesome – warning geeky sense of humour needed!

[youtube _y36fG2Oba0]

Also check out the Ripe whois entry for the video (whois -h whois.ripe.net)

The old Windows Vista love/hate thing

Neil Lathwood — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:04:00 +0000

A friend over on his blog recently posted about his ~~love~~, err, hate of windows Vista.

Now me, I quite like it actually, it looks funky, runs perfectly fine on my lappy and hasn’t crashed once since I installed it. It’s a welcome addition and upgrade to XP which has been the next best OS that MS have produced since Windows 3.11 and 95.

Now I know that you can get other OS’ (free ones as well) to provide the same features as Vista but that involves either, messing around – which I really can’t be bothered to do or Linux (still messing around IMHO) however it is not my type of OS for desktop use yet. I use it on a day to day basis at work as a server OS and it’s brilliant, but spend time trying to get some software working because it may have compatibilty issues is not my idea of computing.

For what I use it for – it rocks, I wouldn’t install anything else and it just works for me.