In case you’ve been living in a cave, on Mars, or just finished a 24 hour flight starting on New Zealand or Australia around midday New Year’s Eve, happy New Year!
Having had a year with some entirely terrible parts, I do hope that this year is a good deal more positive. For one I know that I will be at New Wine and Full On! this year, even if they are back to back this year, but I still have 8 months of work to enjoydure.
Over Christmas I have fettled almost every computer at home. I got two new hard disks for my Birthday, a 1Tb Caviar Green, which was added to the backup pool, freeing up a 500Gb Caviar Blue, to go with a second 500Gb Caviar Black I also got for my Birthday. Both the 500Gb drives replaced the two 320Gb Caviar Blues that now inhabit a media centre PC I built for my sister.
As part of the drive replacement, I cloned the 320s using a program called Clonezilla, which despite showing lots of lovely text involving the word ‘exception’ part way through the cloning of the system drive appears to have been entirely successful.
My sister’s media centre PC is made up of an AMD Athlon X2 4600+ chip, with 4Gb of RAM and an ATI HD4350, which is a major upgrade from the AMD Athlon 64 3700+ with 512Mb RAM and an ATI X800 that I hastily prepared for her in October. The HD4350 now means she’ll be able to use the computer and her TV in half the HD glory that is 1080i. One interesting issue I did come across was that turning the TV off and on again while an HD device was attached would stop the TV outputting any HD content until the attached device was rebooted.
In other news, this is an interesting exploration by dudes from Microsoft and Google into why doing web pages faster is a good idea and how HTTP Chunking is a very good way to deliver page headers to users while the server is fetching some results.
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