When In doubt Blame Telstra… Everyone else does
Posted by Doc Winters on August 26, 2008
What I’m doing now:
Listening to: Music: N/A
Netcast’: The Tech Guy ep 483
Book: Star Trek The Next Generation: The Battle of Betazed
Game: Re-Playing CoD4
Website: no website due to my connection speeds being so bad
My life under the Scope:
This week was a lot slower than last week, and I apologise for not posting this week, I had hoped this to be a daily thing, but I really don’t get up to that much. I spent most of the week playing Call of Duty 4 locally as my connection has dropped to 29.9Kbs, going from what I’m supposed to be getting, though what I do get is a little more than dial up speeds on a Broadband 2 connection… If Telstra have anything to say about it, it’s our fault, the rest of Humanity just blame Telstra…. And no it’s NOT Vista’s fault… Okay rant over. On my life outside of the computer, I picked up an Halo 3 ODST figure the other day, which fits in perfectly with my other figures, because it isn’t a ‘collectable’ it joins the other ranks sitting around my 38″ LCD flat panel TV which doubles as a monitor, and on my 360 and Subwoofer. I might take a pic of that one day. My other collection of figures that sit in their boxes still, they sit in a larger box in my wardrobe, these I hope will make me a fortune… who am I kidding, I’ll never part with them.
The Tech Deck:
Well I got my notebook back, one day in, same day out, the software upgrade went perfectly; the hardware upgrade did not. Home Premium is obviously the superior OS to Basic, and rightly so. Windows Media connect works as long as the connection holds, but since I have a VGA Cable this has pretty much made the same system obsolete, but it is great for when I need it, or I’m feeling lazy to switch from Video 1 to PC. For some reason my ram upgrade didn’t work, though for some reason the computer while capable of utilizing 4gb of Ram, can only have 2gb of Ram installed, don’t ask me why but Chris spent most of the day trying to figure that out the hell happened. Then for some reason the second RAM slot stopped working. It’s no real consequence as it actually still runs faster now than it did on the old OS, the only difference is that the two 1GB chips were replaced with one 2GB chip.
Oh well, I’m not paid to figure out that one, and It works so I aint complaining
Well this is my official blog; stay tuned for another trip through to the Dark Side XD
