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Dec 17
2006

Vista RTM

Last week I decided to stick it to the man once again and download the final, Release-To-Manufacturer version of Windows Vista.
Because I’m so cool, and my hardware is cutting edge I installed Vista Ultimate x64.

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Listening To: Dido - Do You Have a Little Time
Nov 27
2006

IE7 – Upgrade or DIE!

I was going to hold off on posting for another month or so to see if Gordon would fill his furry little head with some kind of obscure conspiracy theory, greatly exaggerating my demise or some such. I guess you could call it a social experiment. I got tired of that and his horrendous grammar and spelling skills made me want to shoot myself in the face.

As is common with my state of mind I’ve decided to flip off the IE6 users. The CSS fixes for IE6 have been defunct in IE7, causing even more bugs. Tonight I’ve gone and done a switcheroo. It now looks much better in IE7
 
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Listening To: Sleeve Channel - Sick of You
Aug 10
2006

Is wireless the new standard?

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I’ve been having some ‘net grief.
Nothing wrong with my ISP, it’s my router (Billion BiPAC 7202A). It’s so budget it keeps losing the connection every now and then. Just long enough to timeout of everything, MSN, Games, Websites. Everything suddenly ticks over to “Connect Connect” or I get kicked from whatever game I’ve got going.
Another thing that I don’t quite understand, is that my router takes freaking-forever to connect to. You type in the IP, log in, and sit waiting for a few minutes. The only logical answer I can gather is that it’s loading something from the web. Why? I have
 
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Listening To: Hybrid - Sineqanon
Jul 24
2006

Destruction!

Being on a Windows machine that I am, I’m fairly liable to the occasional virus and such. Being me, I’m fairly lax in the way of virus protection, firewalls and what not. It’s not that I don’t have an Anti Virus, I just never have it on. You can probably see where this is going.
I got infected by a fairly common virus, SpySheriff. In fact, my sister was infected with The Sheriff not that long ago, and after I got to him she came out fairly unscathed. Not me however. Mine was infected to buggery. So instead of going the usual route of looking around and trying to kill the fucker, I decided, what the hell, let’s format. 
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Listening To: Gus Gus - David
Jul 20
2006

IE7′s uninstaller sucks

I installed a “Yarr, me hearty!” version of Interweb Explorer 7 Beta 3 to test out if any of my Blog’s skins work any better in it over IE6. Upon successful installation it asked me to reboot. I mean, who does that these days? Then ofcourse, I remembered what I was installing. Interweb Explorer. It’s like, an INTEGRAL part of the OPERATING SYSTEM and what not. So I unwillingly rebooted and lo and behold my Explorer was updated.
One small problem:

I’ll give you a minute to mull over what may or may not be missing from
 
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Listening To: Zero 7 - Distractions
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