I put Windows Vista on my MBA because I need to be operational for business and I don’t have time to learn how to use a new operating system (and find replacement applications for those I normally use, and put backup procedures in place for the new OS, etc, etc).
Kudos to Apple, the MBA hardware is just gorgeous, and Vista with Aero doesn’t let the side down too badly. I’m sure it won’t go down well with the Apple fanboys but screw ‘em. Continue reading ‘Macbook Air running Vista benchmark’
For my own reference - it might be useful for ideas for you too.
Not all of these are free, but the majority are.
A friend was asking me why I was still posting about WoW after I quit 
If you make money from this come back and let me know.
| druid | 479 | 12.4 % |
| wow | 309 | 8 % |
| feral | 306 | 7.9 % |
| gear | 300 | 7.7 % |
| tanking | 136 | 3.5 % |
| tribute | 103 | 2.6 % |
| tank | 98 | 2.5 % |
| warcraft | 74 | 1.9 % |
| of | 57 | 1.4 % |
| run | 54 | 1.3 % |
| dm | 51 | 1.3 % |
| maul | 46 | 1.1 % |
| dire | 45 | 1.1 % |
| to | 45 | 1.1 % |
| list | 41 | 1 % |
| world | 41 | 1 % |
| how | 40 | 1 % |
| baron | 39 | 1 % |
| bear | 38 | 0.9 % |
| mats | 36 | 0.9 % |
| agi | 30 | 0.7 % |
| cat | 29 | 0.7 % |
| for | 28 | 0.7 % |
| cappuccino | 28 | 0.7 % |
| a | 26 | 0.6 % |
| 45 | 26 | 0.6 % |
| make | 26 | 0.6 % |
| equipment | 25 | 0.6 % |
| dps | 24 | 0.6 % |
| best | 23 | 0.5 % |
| armor | 20 | 0.5 % |
| strategy | 20 | 0.5 % |
| enchant | 19 | 0.4 % |
| str | 18 | 0.4 % |
| paypal | 18 | 0.4 % |
| weapon | 17 | 0.4 % |
| 15 | 16 | 0.4 % |
| pvp | 15 | 0.3 % |
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If you host your own Wordpress then take note - there’s a php exploit on the loose that’s taken out several well known SEO blogs. Advice is to update to Wordpress 2.0.7 right now. You have no excuse if you’re compromised because you have been warned!
Updated 23rd Jan: there’s a shiny new Wordpress v2.1 that’s just been released - I recommend you upgrade to this, which includes the fix I mentioned below, along with a host of minor and not so minor changes (e.g. database performance caching)
If you don’t know how to upgrade to the latest version it’s quite easy:
That was easy, right?
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I was asked yesterday “just what the hell is a ‘meme‘ anyway?”. Quite simply it’s one of those geeky terms that bloggers love to use because they sound complicated and techie, but in reality actually easy to understand: a meme is an idea!
Now if you head on over to Wikipedia, the be-all and end-all definitive source for all information on the planet, you’ll see them ramble along like this:
The term “meme” (IPA: /miËÂm/, not /mÉ›m/ or /mimi/, to rhyme with “theme”), coined in 1976 by the zoologist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion  analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene (the unit of genetic information). Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.
Yeah, ok wikipedia, whatever… so a meme is an idea, right? Here’s a couple of simple examples:
Got it?
Thanks to Spam Karma 2 and Askimet, my various Wordpress blogs’ comments are 100% spam free from automated spam.
So comment spammers, piss off and bother somebody else.
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If you recently received a spam mail from amdsoft.com, well you didn’t. Some dirty, stinking scumbag email spammer configured his bulk-mailer to use this domain in the From: address.
But you can quit feeling sorry for yourself - I’ve received over 40 80 “delivery failed” notifications and counting!
Some humour to get you through the first day back at work ! This is one from way back when… used to keep me entertained every day:
Link: The Chronicles of George.
Did you read Good ol’ George back in the day? Leave a comment.
I’m selling my laptop because I’m moving to a desktop system. This Dell Inspiron 9300 is a powerful desktop replacement machine with a great widescreen and the fantasic nVidea GeForce Go 6800 graphics card which runs games like Quake 4, Half-Life 2, CounterStrike and World of Warcraft at high resolutions with no lag.
Dell Inspiron 9300
System servie tag is 6HKPK1J - I believe it’s possible to look it up on the Dell site somehow and it will confirm as “INSPIRON 9300 - 2GHZ - 80.00GB HD - 0MB”. The “0MB” is incorrect - it’s most certainly got 1024MB (1 gig) of RAM.
I’m looking for 1000 eur ONO. If you are interested, please post a comment below, including a real email address in the appropriate box (you don’t have to put your email address in the comment body). Serious interest only please.
Over at Yahoo!s Spotlight! On! Technology!! there’s an article! (ok, I’ll stop now) about Microsoft’s Zune project manager and how he’s a cool and hip downhill mountain biker. It’s an interesting article, you should go check it out.
One thing I thought was a bit bloody stupid of the reporter, though, was this fantastic comparison:
Zune hit store shelves on Nov. 14–a mere eight months after Allard’s team got the go-ahead for the seemingly impossible task of toppling Apple’s iPod music player. Contrast that with the five years and some 10,000 Microsoft Corp. workers it took to give birth to the latest version of the company’s Windows operating system, Vista
Sure, dude, ‘cos writing and shipping a multi-million line-of-code general purpose operating system supporting tens of thousands of devices is comparable to shipping a device comprising a hard drive, a sound card and 4 buttons.
I’m no fan of MS, and especially not Vista with it’s f’cked up license, but jeez, give those guys a break!
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