Windows Vista in February 2008
Mon 3 Mar 2008Filed Under Computers, Windows Vista | Comments Off on Windows Vista in February 2008
I find it enthralling that MS is still in the PR market with Vista – supposedly releasing documents that focus on the lack of Vista drivers rather than the reality of using Vista, in particular Internet Explorer. The things broken whether deliberately or not is debatable.
Nevertheless I use the Vista everyday and not by choice these days but due to work and it’s still really slow requires huge amount of CPU power for no reason. For example I had to fix an old Pentium III notebook on the weekend, it was still running the original XP release from 2001. Got it going again and was so impressed with the load times and application run times. I installed XP SP2 on it and wow it actually improved things. When I checked the specs, I found only 384 megabytes of RAM! I was even more shocked when I got it on the internet and ran Mozilla and it rendered pages with Flash content in the fastest time I’ve ever seen.
Vista hasn’t improved things we’ve gone backwards.
Price of petrol in Australia – February 2008
Sat 1 Mar 2008Filed Under Petrol Price History | Comments Off on Price of petrol in Australia – February 2008
The average price of regular unleaded in Australia for February 2008 is $1.47.
My fridge broke
Wed 20 Feb 2008Filed Under *Hayabusa BLOG, Wisdom | Comments Off on My fridge broke
Yesterday was not a good day. My fridge broke. We where only together for 3 years. I bought it new because the old fridge was a bit too small and besides the alcove in the kitchen made it look even smaller. So the new one was larger and filled out the space. It wasn’t too expensive but it wasn’t exactly cheap either – just right. I was also tired of the comments that I needed a bigger fridge!
A service call to the manufacturer wasn’t too painfully and the today the fridge man came and to fix it. About $200 later and it seems to be working perfectly again. Apparently it was the CPU of the fridge that had lost it’s mind. Yes my fridge has a computer.
The problem with the fridge was bascially the freezer had all iced up and hence the fridge part wasn’t getting any cool air. Being a auto defrost fridge clearly there was something wrong. Now – after all that everyone tells me that auto-defrost fridges always play up eventually. Whether this is true or not maybe someone can tell me?
The event also confirmed my and most people’s view that things always break just when the warranty expires!
I recall shopping for a new fridge is not something I or anyone else does too often. I went to at least a dozen stores to find the right size and the right features. Yes these days you can get fridges that do all sorts of things, I recall an internet fridge released a few years ago that you could program or dail up, ones which count the number of times you open the door and so forth. Mine is clearly a mid-range model with only various temperature controls and holiday mode.
Anyway I chose mine for the ever trendy stainless steel finish, blue lights and LCD display. Afterall its not often you need a new fridge.
The motorcycle link you might ask? Well, newer doesn’t always mean better or reliable and most things can be fixed by playing around or replacing the computer and finally just because it looks nice doesn’t mean it works any better!