Month: June 2007
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Wonders of BartPE and Ghost
I mentioned to a friend of mine, Matt, that I needed to somehow ghost my shiny new Windows installation from the SATA array to some other drive as a backup. Iโm used to doing it with Symantec Ghost, but last did that when Ghost ran from a DOS diskette. Yeah, ages ago in other words. …
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New rig.
The new beast of a workstation arrived (in parts) at 7:45 this morning. Iโm now typing up this posting using the new beast, and watching Windows Update install 77 updates. Amazingly, there were no more updates after a reboot. Regarding the assembly of the beast, Iโm very impressed with the level of documentation that came…
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Revamping the house – part 2
So Iโve got the steamer again, and my muscles are muttering about a pre-emptive strike to stop me from using it. I pity the fools (and Iโll pity myself by tomorrow evening!). Amusingly enough, the steamer is made by the same company that makes the household steamer that my mother has. Small world. Iโve managed…
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Vanishing Skips
So, Tuesday I call the company I ordered a skip through, and asked for it to be picked up on Friday morning. This would let me park the car in the driving bay, and back the van up to just outside my house. Imagine my surprise when I got home yesterday and found that my…
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Revamping the house – part 1
Dad dropped by yesterday to give me a hand with de-wallpapering the front bedroom. The first steamer was a bust, it appeared to have thermostat problems. Quick trip back to HSS, and I had a working steamer (2.7 kW heater + tank of water). In about 6 hours, with a pause to take the radiator…