Posted in Computer Shit, Multimedia on Dec 3rd, 2009 | Viewed 644 times
Well, I had already bought new hardware for my Media Centre PC a couple of months ago, but this week my good old Silverstone HTPC box died (or the PSU did). I looked a bit around and landed on the Chieftec HM-03B box and a 400W PSU. The box is just fantastic. Has plenty of [...]
Posted in Computer Shit on Oct 16th, 2009 | Viewed 984 times
So, I was messing about with my Thunderbird email client today in an attempt to make it do exactly what it is I want. I have currently 3 computers accessing the same email account, and I want to have the same emails, both inbox and sent items, on all of them. Now, same inbox is [...]
Posted in Computer Shit on Jun 6th, 2009 | Viewed 418 times
Last week my Vista key on my laptop would no longer activate. The installation was from my old job, so I have no idea what happened to the key. Anyway, I decided to download the last RC of Windows 7 instead. It is available through Microsoft websites and you can get a trial key with [...]
Posted in Computer Shit on May 30th, 2009 | Viewed 382 times
If you have played around with test installations of other operating systems on your computer on other partitions or disks than your main OS, you may have run into boot problems when removing these other test installations. If you have, like I have, had Linux installations, you may be left with a non-working GRUB boot [...]