HP Laptop DV6-TX1130

I bought one of these last year - the primary purpose was for us to use it in hospital when Jeremy was going through his transplant.

It goes okay - the Windows 7 upgrade was technically "free", but I had to pay an administration fee of USD$20. Kinda misleading and very disappointing.
Win7 kept crashing when I updated to it. But it seems to work okay now.

AVG & iTunes

They must hate each other
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2092831&tstart=0

Bloody AVG reckons my iTunes has a virus. Very annoying. Almost had to reinstall iTunes at one stage, but figured out how to release files from the virus vault and iTunes worked okay after that. Had to rollback the bloody virus definitions. I point the finger at both :)

Internet Explorer v8... Just say no!

I was silly enough to download and install IE8.

I've tried running it for about a week. I can no longer put up with the slow internet experience. I don't know what they've done, but for me, in my experience, it has been really crap. I am going back to IE7, which was at least a decent improvement on IE6.

Where do you want to go today? I want to go back to IE7 and I like Windows XP thanks very much!!

Tormented...

So, the computer I am using previously had McAfee Antivirus installed on it.

You'd think it would be easy to uninstall, but nooooo.... Turns out it's as hard to get rid of as the malware/viruses/evil applications that it is supposed to protect you from...

Outlook kept bugging me about some error - something about mcafee. So of course they'd want you to stump up more money for something that sucks up a lot of your pc resources.

I got rid of the errors by going into outlook, under tools/options, then other tab, and clicked advanced options.

After getting in here, I had to go click on the Add-in Manager button to finally find the culprit.

Can I easily erase these 2 items from the list? No way, I'd probably have to try rebuilding the machine, and even then, I am sure somehow this malware would creep back in...

Not happy Jan!

2 Tb HDD are here

It was just a matter of time before 2 TB HDD's were going to be released to the market.

Well, here they are

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/western-digitals-2tb-caviar-green-hdd-on-sale-in-australia/

It seems our friends at mwave have revised the price pretty fast - it's now showing $409.95

http://www.mwave.com.au/newAU/mwaveAU/productdetail.asp?CartID=mAU@HZLUT5794LVQG34J25FD1BRRBHP8M8O1J195I6MBIMJR3E&SKU=22040305

Compared to the original Engadget quoted price of $377.80 - that's $32.15 increase over just 3 days!

EEEpc 701 gone

My friend updated the OS to Ubuntu version8 for me.

Much nicer than the original (Xandros?), but I simply couldn't get the wireless networking going.

I think there was a root password which he didn't tell me about, and I didn't want to pry...

Anyway, it's been returned to it's owner now.

Dust

I hate dust.

I did a big clean up today.

I can't believe there was so much fluffy dust behind my computer monitor, so much fine dust stuck to the cables, and so much crap lying around.

I'm tired after hauling and rearranging the room, but I think it is worth it. Lets hope the days of the overheating computers are over (My old crappy laptop overheated at the slightest temperature increase).