7
Sep
2009
Patch Tuesday
I just wanted to mention something that a lot of people don’t know about, Patch Tuesday. That would be that scheduled Microsoft patched are sent out the second Tuesday of every month. The only exception is that critical patches become available as soon as possible.
Why does this matter? Well if you don’t want to run automatic updates you can make a note of the second Tuesday of every and just run Windows Update then instead of always having a background process.
5
Apr
2009
Redoing my Computers
So, a few weeks ago I decided it was time to change my software setup. At the time I had the Windows 7 beta running on my desktop and laptop and FreeBSD running on my server. I switched it up by putting OS X back on my laptop (yay hackintosh!) and this time with sound working.
I also brought my server into my room and have started using it for TV and such. I realized that it was being used almost exclusively for storage and since it had a lot more power than that I wanted to use it for something else. That combined with my problem with a few games not liking dual-monitors made me recommission it as a Debian box which is sitting in my room now. Whenever I’m playing games or other things on my desktop I use that box for TV. Apart from that it still serves the exact same purpose as before, but it’s also easier to maintain with Debian.
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21
Jan
2009
Started This Work Term
So I started work almost 3 weeks ago now. The first day was boring. Really, really boring. It was basically lectures and a bit of paperwork end to end. And the lectures were not relevant to the work I was doing at all. Imagine you’re at any company, any company at all, and you have network guys who actually only deal with one other company (which is owned by your company) that is unrelated to all the work they do. Now you decide to tell them all about the other stuff you do. It really doesn’t matter at all, I couldn’t care less if you slaughter baby seals if all I’m doing is moving files onto a server.
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30
Sep
2008
New Hardware Purchases
So I’m getting a bunch of new PC hardware. Today I get my HIS Radeon HD 4850 ICEQ4 Turbo 512MB and Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4. And sometime next week I should get my BenQ V2400W 24IN Widescreen Black LCD Monitor.
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