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December 29 New Vista PC : Out of the box experienceBought a new Vista PC for my Mum - £400 for a dual-core Compaq with 2 gigs of Ram and a 19" widescreen, pretty good, or so I thought.
Unpacked it, turned it on,plugged in the new router. All was hunkey-dorey and the screen looked fab.
Then it did 21 Windows updates and rebooted.
And the network card stopped working. No error or anything, it just couldn't see the router any more. Tried everything I could think of to no success.
So I gave up and plugged in a wireless dongle so that it could connect that way. It worked perfectly. And installed another 4 updates. Guess what. Yeah thats right, the updates stuffed the wireless dongle too.
I blame Compaq, then Realtek (The network card) and then Microsoft.
I'll probably manage to get it working tomorrow, but I spent 3 hours on it tonight and I'm still hugely frustrated.
Stark contrast to my own £400 HP PC which I bought last Christmas and then put Vista on it - I've never had any problems with it at all. December 23 Southampton to... Antigua, BarbudaExactly one week ago I disembarked the lovely QE2 in a very cold Southampton.
December 20 QE2 : Wonderful MemoriesDespite me being ill with a chest infection and temperature, I still had a truly wonderful time on board QE2 this past weekend. It exceeded all my very high expectations!
I'm putting together a full write up of it here - http://www.roblightbody.com/liners/qe-2/full_review.htm
QE2 is a wonderful old ship - its like stepping back in time, and in my case like stepping back 21 years into a memory. Its a shame they're getting rid of her - they should just market her as a classy old liner and keep her going, with cabins and portholes instead of staterooms and balconies - some people actually want that... and she has such class, there will never be another like her.
December 12 Packing for the QE2 : Bon Voyage Me!I've been looking forward to this for 6 months (or 20 years...) and then I go and get sick less than a week before! I've been struggling since last week with a horrible cold/flu-like thing. I've ended up taking 3.5 extra days off work (which costs me...) on top of the days off for my trip and my Christmas Hols - I'm gonna be broke for a while! On top of that BOTH my cars broke in the past week and need fixed.
Anyway, the bags are getting packed, the new Tuxedo seems to fit and I've got most of the rest of the stuff i need. Its just been a bit more chaotic than it was meant to be due to me being sick.
I'm going to be photo blogging my trip - watch my flickr page for details - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightbody December 01 The QE2 & a large Cruise ship - taking on large waves - an exciting video comparison.and
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