Just a quick post, it seems that Microsoft have finally made a reasonable web browser, or at least the folks at Tom’s Hardware seem to think so. I’m still looking forward to Firefox 4, and hoping Mozilla will deliver a 64bit version as promised, but a bit of competition from the (still) dominant player in the browser market can’t be a bad thing.
Posts Categorised: Computing
0Disk Speeds
Since a post about a year ago where I compared the speed of several flash drives (for Speeding up Media Browser) I’ve been keeping a track of the speed of various drives / devices. As I’ll soon be obtaining quite a few new drives it seemed a good time to organise all the benchmarks and start a post with the data I’ve collected.
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0Quicklinks to a list of utilities for fresh installs of Windows
Below is a list of all the little things I install on a fresh install of Windows.
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2Problems with Catalyst Mobility — Fixed
I own a Dell Studio 1557 laptop with an AMD (formerly ATI) Mobility Radeon 4570. Whilst Dell provide a driver, they don’t keep up-to-date with AMD’s monthly release cycle so in the past I have installed newer versions from AMD directly.
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0Free Microsoft Anti-Virus — now version 2
Microsoft have released version 2 of Security Essentials. As [intlink id=“93” type=“post” class=“intlink”]noted previously[/intlink] in this blog, version 2 will install on Windows Server 2008 R2 (and presumably other Windows Server versions too)
5Free anti-virus / anti-malware for Windows Server 2008
Microsoft are offering a downloadable Beta of version 2 of their free security app Security Essentials. This works on Windows Server. For anyone (like me) who is using Server 2008 at home (e.g. on a file server) and needs anti-virus, I highly recommend this.
Update: [intlink id=“96” type=“post”]Version 2 final[/intlink] is now available.
4Default login for Dell 3130CN laser printer
I recently had a problem with the family Dell 3130cn printer. Once I had realised that it was just a case of the printer losing its IP address I manually configured the IP with the panel on the printer and then fired up the web interface to check what was going on. Irritatingly I couldn’t log into the web interface, so I dug out the userguide to locate the default username and password. They are listed as “admin” and “password”. Great. Except that didn’t work.
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1Hardware RAID and consumer HDD problems
A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to purchase a second hand hardware raid 5 card (an Areca 1220) for a very low price. Since then I have used the card along with several sets of drives (originally 300gig, then 750gig and currently 1Tb) in a dedicated server PC as a large network file-store for the family’s music, photos, videos and back-ups.
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0Custom ADM file for Windows Server 2003 / XP domain
I was digging thru an old back-up CD today and stumbled upon a custom ADM file I created when I was administering a Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP Domain. To use, copy the following code into notepad, save the file with a .adm extension on the system32 folder of a domain server. Open Group Policy editor and add the file, then browse to the “Technicians Settings” to enable any of the settings.
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0Civilization V cheat
This cheat for civ 5 is widely posted already, however everywhere I can find it has lazily copied 1 original source, where the instructions are not very helpful. So I reproduce it here in a more helpful form.
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“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”