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BSOD’s!

( Hardware andPCs )

For those of you that don’t know, BSOD stands for Blue Screen Of Death, in Windows 95/98/ME they were fairly common, however if you get one in XP then you know that something has seriously fucked up. I mentioned in “A Loss To Be Mourned” that I was getting BSOD’s all the time and that […]

Matlab

( PCs andProgramming )

For those of you that don’t know what Matlab is, it’s a programming language that’s designed to work with arrays and matrices (hence the name, MATrix LABoratory). Very useful for maths, and I was taught it last year as part of Engineering. Anyhow, the reason I’m bringing this up is because Mathworks are running a […]

A Loss To Be Mourned

So it seems that whenever I work on my file server, a cold cathode is destined to die. I believe that brings the total to 4 now, which is around £20. Here are some pictures of the latest tragedy, I actually broke it in two places, once when I was picking the case up and […]

Buying Stuff

Ah, isn’t it fun buying stuff that you don’t really need. (The answer is yes.) Someone at the Compter Society who goes by the name of otispunkmeyer (lucky git) managed to snaffle himself a new MSI K8N SLI Platinum motherboard and TWO XFX 7800GT’s, all in all about £600 worth of kit, FOR FREE. He […]

Defragmenting

( PCs )

Ah, defragmenting. Just the other day I happened to see a thread over at the Virtual Doctor forums (which I joined recently). It was about defragmenting. I thought to myself, “I’ve had this current Windows install for just over a month now, and I haven’t defragged so far, I may as well do it now.” […]