Author: Administrator
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67 Things to do when you know you’re going to fail an Exam
67 Things to do when you know you’re going to fail an Exam 1. Get a copy of the exam, run out screaming “Andre, Andre, I’ve got the secret documents!!” 2. Talk the entire way through the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud. If asked to stop, yell out, “I’m…
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WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) trouble completeing downloads using BITS
If you like me found that your WSUS server was not downloading all update files successfully and had some issues sorting it out. A google or three might return a result like below 1. ?%programfiles%\Update Services\tools\osql\osql.exe? -S servername\WSUS -E -b -n ?Q ?USE SUSDB update tbConfigurationC set BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1? (note: substitute your WSUS server name for…
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Apple Update their webstore.
Changes noticed as follows: No more normal iPods (grey scale) – Photo iPod’s reign supreme (photo dropped from name) $600 for 60G iPod Photo. iMac price cuts (yay) Things I noticed for the first time: Weird things that allow you to personalise and colourise your iPod Shuffle Things they didnt update: Powermac G5 macMini (boo…
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AMD file anti-trust suit against Intel
Looks like the little boy of the x86 world is going to take it to the school yard bully. Have you ever tried to get machines with the AMD processor out of Dell? Notice how the number of AMD machines offered by large OEM’s is pitifully small? Well its due to intel and its special…
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Silly Reporter – theaustralian.jpg (JPEG Image, 879×996 pixels)
theaustralian.jpg (JPEG Image, 879×996 pixels) Got to love reporters that dont quote their sources. The original content was written by someone on a comedy/fake/spoof news site and quickly propogated itself over the internet on other news sites (where the original article was referenced). Looks like a newspaper now has a red face and will hopefully…
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Fog lights – When and how to use them
Fronts – These should be angled down toward the road so that they illuminate the surface of the road and do not reflect into your face/eyes when driving in fog. They do add to the useful visability of a car in all weather and can be used when ever you feel like it. Rears –…
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Cruise/G2G – July 2
Due to being on many forums and being many lazy I do link you to this site. How is everyone up for a cruise meet at the BP in Athelstone 10am for a Cruise up Gorge Rd lunch at the pub or takeaway joint or similar then a wander back via a yet to be…
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iMate SP3i : Review
Earlier this month I purchased an i-mate SP3i Mobile phone from Telstra. I have been meaning to do a review, but did not get round to it – so here it is:- Features: Windows CE for Smartphones 2003 – Second Edition 32MB RAM 32 MB ROM TI OMAP (Arm) Processor miniSD slot (soon to be…
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SITE NEWS: Site was down :-O
Shocking as it may sound this site was down for about 5 hours today. I recently was migrated from a SLOW Telstra DSLAM onto an Internode DSLAM which while being faster – my modems settings were not happy with. After changing from PPPoA-VcMux to PPPoE-LLC as the encapsulation method I got much better stability and…