Well I am back again :) as I have not been really updating this as much as i should have been so hopefully i will be starting to write more AND soon.

Till Later...

This is a test post from Windows Live Writer on Windows Vista Home Premium. Well i have finally done it and upgraded to Windows Vista but still have Windows XP SP2 installed as it runs my games a LOT better that vista at the moment i.e.  averaging 30fps on vista compared to 85fps+ on XP can't wait for Nvidia to come up with good drivers for Vista...

Till Later...

Well it's been AGES since my last post here on Live Spaces, So i am still alive LOL but I will make more of an effort to post from now on :)

Cya All Later...

Well Microsoft have released Windows Vista RC2 to beta testers and members of the CPP, so of course i have downloaded it and running it as we speak it is an improvement over the beta2 release a lot faster and more stable. My only gripe at the moment is not about the OS itself but my videocard (Asus N6600GT) is too noisy the fan is running at 100% i used to get round this in XP by using rivatuner but onfortuantly it is not working properly yet on vista .

Below are some screenshots...

I have just seen the trailer for the documentary/film Jesus Camp its the Christian fundamentalists at it again, I cant believe that they teach there kids this kind of crap all that is going to happen is that WWW III will happen when these kids grow up in the west and there counterparts in the fundamentalist Muslim world grow up will destroy us all with there fundamentalist doctrine. especially with quotes like the ones below

Palestinians take all their kids to camps and put hand-grenades in their hands

We're being trained to be Gods Army (By a 12 Year Old)

so I will have to get to see the full film and see what other crap they are feeding there children there are some more reviews over at Rottentomatoes.

I think people should be allowed to follow whatever they want except when they was to push there views onto others by force or any other means .

tags: Personal, Religion

Link to BBC NEWS | Security tight for Pope blessing

I have been watching / reading the news about the pope and the speech he made on Tuesday where he quoted a 14th Century Christian Emperor who said the prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "Evil and inhuman" things. Should he apologize??? maybe I don't know but from what I have seen and read this has been blown out of all proportions in the media and in the Islam world, to me it is another excuse for the radical Islam followers to play the victim again the same way they did last year when the cartoons of Muhammad were printed in Denmark.

I am speaking here and someone who does not follow any religion as I don't believe in any of it, but I am getting sick of all these protests from the radicals calling for the pope to die / be killed / etc etc you get the picture it was the same last year over the cartoons as well, we live in a free society well at the moment we do (different rant on that).

Not all Muslims are as radical as the ones on the headlines these are the silent but peace loving people that follow their choosing religion with no agenda, they need to start to stand up to these radicals and tell them it is not the way they want to be portrayed this can also be applied to any of the main stream religions as they all have radicals in their followers. Before anyone says that I am getting on to the Muslims then check out some of my other posts regarding Israel and there unjust and unfair war toward the people of Palestine, I am just getting sick of all this war and death over what outdated teachings from thousands of years ago and people's interpretation of them.

After all it is now the 21st Century and we should be getting to the stage where we can work as a united world to make it better for all its inhabitants not just the select few, and yes I can be included in that as I have never known hunger or thirst.

tags: Personal, News and Politics

Here is an article I seen over at Engadget, All I can say is great work mate would not mind something like that for my  XBox 360

Ben Heckendorn's XBox 360 laptop: best mod ever?

Seen this post earlier over at neowin.net

One member's reaction was "Whooo!!! Thanks!! Another said "transfer rates are pretty decent, I am getting 743kb/second I am sure later on the servers are gonna get hammered once the emails start flowing into inboxes" (source). Yes folks, it's finally here. The moment you've all been waiting for.. Windows Vista RC1, the same build testers received on Friday.

Microsoft notes on the website: Windows Vista RC1 is available for participants of the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program. Please go to the Customer Preview Program website to register and receive a Product Key, which is required to install and activate the software.

For those of you who are brave enough to update: Before upgrading from Beta 2 to RC1, please install any Critical Updates from Windows Update for Beta 2. Go to Start, All Programs, Windows Update, and click the “Check for Updates” button.

Windows Vista RC1, English 32-Bit Edition | 2,584.25 MB (Expires June 1st 2007)
Windows Vista RC1, English 64-Bit Edition | 3,677.22 MB (Expires June 1st 2007)
Link: OMG OMG! Where do I get a key?
Link: Microsoft Download Page
Link: An exciting revelation unfolding here

Just goes to show that the some people will go to any lengths to pursue their own agenda, mind you with all the wrong doing Israel has been doing lately I suppose they need to try anything to look good...

Pro-Israel lobby targets BBC online poll

'Megaphone' lobbyware mobilisation

BBC History Magazine was forced to remove an online poll after it was targeted by a project aimed at influencing Internet opinion in Israel's favour.…

Just seen this over at Joystiq

PlayStation 3 launch delayed for Europe and others

Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment

Oh man, not again. Sony just announced that the European launch of the PlayStation 3 will be delayed. So instead of seeing a worldwide launch of the PS3 in early November which nobody really expected anyway, Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, and "Australasia" will see the console shipping in March. Sony blames the delay on production issues with blue laser diodes needed for the Blu-ray (and HD DVD) Disc drives. Stockholders, beware.

UPDATE: According to Kaz Hirai, the production issues with the blue laser diodes will also mean that North America and Japan can only expect 500,000 units at launch. As a result, Sony has officially reduced its estimate of 4 million consoles shipped by the end of calendar year 2006 to a more conservative 2 million.

I have managed to get my self a download from the 100,000 slots that Microsoft opended today for this new version of Windows Vista :) and from what i have used of it so far it is a great improvment over the beta 2 release from July.

The OS is a lot faster at installing i installed on my PC in under 20min from 1hr in the last build i tried, but that is not the only thing thats improved speed wise. See below for a link for a more indepth review...

Review At Wincustomize

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Well I finally know now that I have it all that tingling and numbness I have been having in my right hand for the past few years after a visit to the hospital this morning so have got myself a splint/wrist aid so hopefully will help me sleep better and will do until I get my other appointment to get my nerves tested to see if i can get some surgery to easy the symptoms...

Well it is about time someone in the conflict took a step towards peace and I am glad it is the Lebanon government as Israel has already broken the ceasefire once. I tell you I think the current government in Israel think that they can literally get away with murder on a mass scale and not be held accountable, don't get me wrong the hezbolla members launching missiles into Israel are just as bad but does this give Israel the right to destroy a country? i don't think so, could you have imagined if the UK government started bombing southern Ireland when the IRA attacked us in the past few decades no we cant as we would not have done it as it would have been wrong, So what gives the government of Israel the right to kill innocent women and children.

And before people start to spout that i am anti Semitic i am not i just see an injustice to the people of Lebanon by Israel.  

Link to BBC NEWS --Lebanon sounds ceasefire warning

<RANT> On checking my space today I have found a whole load of trackbacks from my posts to the most irrelevant sites that are obvious SPAM and Annoying to say the least.

Will need to check about on the search engines to see if there is anyway of getting this to stop as I know there is a plugin for Wordpress based sites that will stop this kind of junk.

Well I am away to calm down

Till later... </RANT>

Windows Live Writer is an application that will allow you to write to your live spaces blog from your desktop. Below is a link to the Writer Zone Blog

Windows Live Writer

I used it to post this entry..

At Last someone has realised that support staff are important too :)...

Many an executive can quote the cost of downtime associated with the failure of a central system that is critical to the business. In fact, service levels around availability at this level are often used as a key indicator of the IT department’s performance.Something that executives have probably not considered, however, is the downtime experienced at an individual user level as they run into problems with the everyday use of IT – everything from PC crashes, through login problems, to monitors going on the blink and keyboards locking up because they’ve had a cup of coffee spilt into them.

Whatever the problem, whatever the cause, for a user whose job is dependent on IT, the time between such problems occurring and them being fixed is downtime, that can collectively add up to a significant productivity hit to the business, not to mention a lot of frustration among users themselves.The guys that step in to take care of this problem are the technicians responsible for IT support.

In larger organisations, these are usually dedicated to the support role, but in smaller environments, they are typically juggling support with other duties.Either way, it’s a heroic job, continuously having to deal with the Mrs Angry, Mr Frustrated, Master Know-it-All and Mssrs Dumb and Stupid. OK, they deal with nice well balanced users too, but people in general are much more prone to strange and volatile behaviour when interacting with helpdesks.But how well do we support those on the front line in their efforts to get users back up and running in the face of such frequently encountered adversity?

Supporting the helpdesk heroes | The Register

Support not built into $699 console

Sony's PlayStation 3 will play "thousands" of PSOne and PS2 titles, the company has claimed, but if players want to carry over saved games, they'll need to obtain a memory card adaptor first, the Sony US PS3 website has revealed.…

If you have not tried Flock then you should, i have been playing about with it for the past week and its very good indeed, You can set it up to blog straight to your windows live space.

Here are just some of the features

• Drag & Drop Photos
  
• Blog Freely
• Store your favorites/bookmarks online
• Websnippets