its about that time of year again peeps, i should be getting two new 500GB IDE HDDs and an 80GB SATA HDD. i should also be getting a new graphics card, a radeon x1650 from my good friend joel.
only problem is paying for it all, all this should total £170 which isn’t really a problem, [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Hardware Update
Posted in Hardware, Life on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another Successful Interview
Posted in Life on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
after solving a small mix up over how i was travelling the 7 or so miles to my interview i arrived early and was subjected to a surprisingly un stressful interview. in general everything seemed to go well and i answered the majority of the questions to a competent and generally useful seeming level.
i should [...]
Job Interview
Posted in Life on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
upon checking my email this morning i was greeted with that all friendly email titled ‘Interview Invite’.
so this means i have an interview at Yorkshire Water on the 26th of September, this will be my second interview there now. on the first i was selected for the interview from over one hundred applicants and then [...]
Hardware Acceleration on Server 2003
Posted in Serenity on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
users of server 2003 will know that one of its little quirks is that video hardware acceleration is disabled by default.
this however can be alleviated with this simple code and using munge:
reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\ /s /f Acceleration.Level /t REG_DWORD >> %windir%\accel.bat
echo “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” “reg add HKLM” > %windir%\accel.txt
echo “0000″ “0000 /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /v Acceleration.Level [...]
Strange Day
Posted in Life on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
the original plan for today was to get up at about 7, have a driving lesson at 8:30, do some crap in brighouse and then go to a friends house then come home for lunch and tidy up. all in all, a usual and relaxed day.
instead, i’ve now not had my dirivng lesson because the [...]
Finally, Graphics Work
Posted in Design, Serenity on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
huzzah, i got designing last night and have come up with this for a proposed UI for serenity:
you may notice that there are a few big changes and it will more than likely involve a whole load of work to get finished to an anywhere near good standard which is what im starting to expect [...]
