Nov 12
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) News
The PC is rebuilt at last but what a long and involved process!
At first I just re-installed XP. This worked but the anti-virus software that I bought in the weekend was still picking up the virus that originally started me off down this track…….
On saturday morning I also bought an external hard drive. This is VERY cool. I got a Momobay CX2 and put a 40GB HDD in it. This connects to your PC via USB or Firewire and looks just like another hard drive. Anyway – thais allowed me to back up all my data and scan them before formatting my two internal HDD’s
Then I thought I’d be clever – I knew that NT was a pretty fast install and was also the only one that would boot off CD. One install later and I was ready to “upgrade” to XP. Oops, you need SP5 or greater before you can upgrade and I only had SP4 – damn! OK, lets upgrade to Win2K then – yep, that works….now we can put XP on – phew! WinNT, Win2K and WinXP all in the space of about 3 hours.
Now came the apps. Antivirus s/w first :emb: Photoshop, MS office and that’s all for the moment…………
Oh, and I almost screwed it all up by trying out a boot screen manager 
Nov 09
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
The PC rebuild is going slowly. I’ve discovered that my modem isn’t supported under XP! As far as I can tell the only reason it worked so far is that I had it installed under Win2k and it kept the driver after the upgrade. I’m doing this from work (shhhhhh!) and so I’ll have a look for a driver from here. It certainly is strange not having web access at home!
Wanna see how big Vic’s getting? Here you go. I think she looks lovely 
Nov 07
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
Bugger! 🙁
One of the reasons for no recent posts is the fact that I’m rebuilding my PC after getting my first virus (the other is having nothing interesting happening) so I would like to preemptively apologise to anyone that has received an email from me with a screen-saver of some sort attached don’t open it! It creates all sorts of weird .dll files that are full of your email addresses and stops your anti-virus s/w working………
It’s a bugger as well because I need to work on a couple of pictures for the next photo club competition. You might remember that I came first and second in my first comp which was a bit embarrassing :emb: Luckily (?) there is no way that this will happen this time – the shots I’m going to use are not really up to scratch but I’m going to enter them just to get them critiqued by a pro.