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Catherine and I have been married for 3 years now, I have posted a bit more over at I Married You

We had some friends down at the end of last week, and they both have Facebook accounts (or is that Facebooks, or Faces, or Facebook Profile pages. They use Facebook in other words) so Catherine signed up, then I signed up, then I spent an hour deciding what I wanted my permissions to be. I have finally settled on a partiuar group of settings that I like to call “Totally Paranoid”, everything is set to only be visible to “My Friends” including search, you will have to contact me outside Facebook unless you are entirely better at Social Networking than I am and can still send me a Friend Request. On a lighter note this post should be published on Facebook via Flog. ...

Thanks to Ian’s Messy Desk and BlogWell this post comes courtesy of w.bloggar. Going to give this a go and see if I get on with it, shame it is not a WYSIWIG tool, but it seems to have some useful features.

Seeing as Catherine and I finally bought our own house and it looks like we might be staying here for much longer than we have ever stayed anywhere else, we are looking at options for home networking, our current solution involves a 802.11b Wireless Network for laptop connectivity and a cable for my PC, that has to be removed each night to close the living room door. The Options 1) Wireless Network 802.11g provides a maximum wire speed of 54mbps which results in a typical throughput of 25-27mbps, our existing 802.11b network gives us a typical throughput of about 4mbps which is below that of our broadband service (6.6mbps - Zen Internet ADSL Max Service) ...

I never got round to getting the money together for the last computer I wanted to build, so I have started again from scratch, the following is intended to run Windows Vista Ultimate in my current Cooler Master 210. 1 x Abit IP-35 Pro 1 x Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 G0 SLACR 2 x 2GB Corsair Memory TwinX XMS2 PC5400 1 x 520W Corsair HX Series Modular PSU 1 x Optiarc AD-7170A-0S 18x DVD±R 1 x 640MB EVGA 8800GTS Superclocked 1 x 320 Gb Seagate Technology ST3320620AS Barracuda 7200.10 1 x 22" Samsung SM-226BW Black Widescreen LCD If anyone reading this has any thoughts please leave a comment, hope to get the whole lot for just over £1000.

I am currently trying to diagnose several Windows XP SP2 computers with severe network problems, the bottleneck is in the network. Whilst deploying a group policy object the Windows Installer Service crashed due to a network time-out, and this was the resultant response from Error Reporting: So there you go the problem with Windows XP is Windows Vista!

Recently purchaced and installed a new HP ProLiant DL320s to run as the site primary file server, had some issues with Windows 2003 R2 32-bit as it repeatedly BSODed before getting into graphical setup, tried the drivers for the SAS controller also tried the disc on a different computer to no avail. After chatting with a few people someone asked why I wasn’t going for 2k3 R2 64-bit, the main reason for not using it was it I had not had a chance to test it out in a test environment and wasn’t overly happy putting it into a live environment, looked at the software that was going on the File Server and all seemed ok, installed the ProLiant Support Pack migrated files, setup file screening and quotas. All was well, server running very fast and very happy. ...

I have great faith that Wikipedia can make a great day to day resource for personal reasearch, and be a starting point for academic research (not that I would recomend using Wikipedia as a reference for anything remotely important). As I tend to like linking to Wikipedia from blog posts I am looking for a plugin that allows me to do so quickly. I have found two plugins that seem to contain the features I want. ...

Yes, it has come to that time of the year again that I remember that I was meant to be blogging more, in fact I made it a New Year’s resolution to blog more often, and that came to absolutely nothing and here we are almost 9 months later. It has been a busy day, I have installed WordPress 2.2 both on here and on I Married You and removed almost all of the old site for storage space reasons, the only part of my website that is still there is my CS335 - Dissertation which several people link to, so I thought it only fair not to move that one. I will look through my University Stuff and see if any of it is worth bringing across to WordPress. ...

A friend of mine from EVE, Planetside and OcPS has managed to get some of his photo graphs on his local BBC website, you can see the gallery on his website here