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Tidy up my PC at work

September 6, 2008

I have dual boot Vista and Ubuntu for my DIY PC now in use at work. I have no time for Linux at work so I wanted to remove the ubuntu installation. In dual boot GRUB has taken over the MBR so I have to remove it. Something that I haven’t done for ages so I googled it.

This post showed me how, i.e. must have my Vista disk ready, boot up with the DVD then choose command line.

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

It’s that simple!

I then deleted and reformatted the partitions to NTFS. I also changed the drive letters around.

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Google's browser Chrome

September 2, 2008

As a developer can you cope with the pace of new broswers and standard? Google is launching their own browser very soon. It’s like a car builder now having their own engine factory.

I have seen commercial sites around here still WARNING users that their site is best viewed by IE 5.1 or 6 while IE7 is nearly obsolete with IE8 just round the corner.

I have also seen websites still support only IE without any consideration of users using Safari, Firefox or Opera. I guess with the pace of new broswers/standards joining the race it must be good business helping businesses to update their website designs.

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Ubuntu in VPC

July 31, 2008

Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is a free download from Microsoft.

I don’t need it actually because I can dual boot into Ubuntu from my PC here. I just want to give it a try, you don’t have too many free products like this from Microsoft.

I haven’t tried but I can assume that it’ll be a piece of cake if you want to install another Microsoft’s OS in VPC. I tried installing Ubuntu 8.04. It certainly wasn’t easy and I found a good article telling me exactly what to do.

Don’t rush like me, following the article didn’t take me anywhere. There are 160+ comments the real wisdom is in those comments posted by readers. Key steps you shouldn’t miss are

  • Don’t install straight into HDD, run live CD then install
  • Use graphic safe mode (F4) and add additional commands to startup script (F6)
  • Edit grub script during first boot

Enough for VPC, I prefer Wubi

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Desktop vs Notebook

July 3, 2008

Below is WEI for my desktop
desktop.jpg

This is from my $1,025 Toshiba M600 notebook
M600.jpg

I ignore performance on graphics because I don’t play games on my computers so I think these two perform nearly the same. Both of them are running on 2G RAM with Core2Duo 6420 (2.16 GHz) and T5450 (1.66 GHz) CPU respectively for desktop and the M600 notebook.

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