January | 2005 | Neil Hopcroft

Archive for January 2005

“No, really, I’ve got this great idea for a film…”

“The international survey of 900 taxi drivers reveals that absent minded passengers are leaving…a harp, a throne, £100,000 worth of diamonds, 37 milk bottles, a dog, a hamster, a suitcase from the fraud squad and a baby”

Today I’m no longer full of rant. I’m full of Tescos Lemon and Ginger sauce instead. Thoroughly recommended, though I don’t feel particularly like moving very fast with quite that much of it inside. Ooops, I’ll turn into a porker if I’m not careful. Depressed to see the snow melting outside when I woke up […]

Yesterday I was full of rant about the state of the modern world. Again. Today Microsoft aren’t making anything better – this is a beautiful piece of obvious engineering, in order to get your sparkly new top-of-the-line disk to work on Win2K you have to search around on their website for an obscure set of […]

Killer application – “Brad Pulaski had died of blunt trauma to the head after being repeatedly bludgeoned with an iPod, a popular MP3 player produced by Apple.”

Still wrestling this machine, trying to get a good boot out of it. Progress so far is that Win2K-AS boots fine on first install but as soon as I install DirectX9 it keels over with exactly the same symptoms as WinXP/2K3-AS. Which kinda suggests its a DX/Graphic driver problem of some sort. So I’ve downloaded […]

Now got a microphone, so can Skype properly…if you’re into such things my name is ‘neilhopcroft’…now if only I could get it to route through this bluetooth headset….

Anyone got any clues to help me track down why WinXP isn’t booting on my shiny new box? I think I’ve narrowed it down to graphics drivers (Abit Radeon X600Pro256) or networking (builtin gigabit ethernet, or, more likely, firewire networking), but sadly even safe mode isn’t working any more, so I’m a bit stumped. Just […]

Theres some cool pictures here…theres some things I miss about Tokyo…