Archive for November, 2005
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
Well, time to try out another bloging utility!
Well, time to try out WordPress (again), or was that movable type?
Anyway, its not blogger..
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
Oracle Installation Issue - RESOLVED
Turns out it was a language setting in the operating system (Windows XP Pro, SP2)
My operating system was set to English (Australian), and Oracle hangs on install because of that. I reset the locale back to English (United States) and all was fine.
Which is seriously stupid, not that it is a limitation, but [...]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2005
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You wouldn’t think that installing something would be so hard would you? I’ve tried reinstalling ‘Oracle Express Edition’ on this laptop - all went well until the final stage of configuration where upon it hung. The same thing has occured with Oracle 10g - all is well until it tries to startup a database, and then it [...]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
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It seems PowerBlog doesn’t work with blogger quite the way I had hoped. The date and category features do not seem to work the way one hopes, I probably need to read the manual. Anyway, its a lovely day outside the train, quite at odds with the stormy rain clouds I left behind this morning. These [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
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Apart from a thirsty desire for fame and fortune (why else does anyone blog???) · Is it a technology blog? (That’ll bring the girls in won’t it..) · Is it a confessional blog? (I never wanted to do this, I always wanted to be a lumberjack…) · Is it a travel blog? (Well, I am on the train at [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
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Well, I just finished Peter F Hamiltons latest book: ‘Judas Unchained’ I first found Peter with ‘The Reality Dysfunction’, what I enjoyed about it was its combination of a complex universe and it’s space opera. He’s tried this again with ‘The Commonwealth Saga’, but I really don’t think he’s been anywhere near as successful. Firsly, its LONG, at [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
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Well, at this very moment I’m listening to James Blunt’s ‘Back to Bedlam’. It’s quite good, the two singles I think are ‘High’ and ‘Beautiful’, but I quite like Wisemen, Tears & Rain, Out of my Mind, and No Bravery as well. This puts it into the rare an unusualy ‘great album’ category in my life, at the [...]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
So, the final tick for Dell.
The replacement hard drive arrived as promised today.
So, the time frames for the whole thing are:
Sunday, 7pm - machine crashes with screen distortionMonday, 9am - called Dell, placed on hold Monday, 9.10am - got through to an Indian gentleman who took me thorough some diagnoisticsMonday, 9.20am - Call center diagnosis was a video card [...]
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Empire Earth II and the Nvidia GForce 4200 Go…
Empire Earth II and the Nvidia GForce 4200 Go…
Well, as I’ve extensively remarked, they replaced my video card – and now, Empire Earth II runs!
I bought the game about 2 weeks ago and was very disappointed to find out it crashed on startup.
The only online help was saying I had an unsupported video card, but [...]
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Dell are amazing!
Well, they didn’t come and pick it up.
They came and fixed it, despite the fact my warrenty didn’t have that feature.
It was a faulty video card apparently, and now my screen is actually clearer!
He also found a fault with the drive, so a new drive will also hopefully be posted out to me.
So, from call [...]
