December 2004 - Posts

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2005 F1 Season by matt

The 2005 season could turn out to be quite exciting with the addtition of the Turkish Grand Prix and the Chinese Grand Prix ( pic ) which takes the total to no less than 19 GP's! This year also brings the addition of a number of Technical and Sporting regulations: Qualifying : The new qualifying format comprises 2 single-lap sessions run on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning with the times from both sessions aggregated. The order for the Saturday session will be in reverse order of the finishing...
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Word 2003 Easter egg? by matt

Open a new document in word, type: = rand (200,99) and press enter! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition by matt

I've just installed and played with Windows Server x64 Edition with SP1 on the previously mentioned server. Needless to say it is blazingly fast ; more so than an identical server running a clean install of the 32 bit version and 4GB (physical) RAM. The future is looking bright!!! Check out the gallery of screenshots here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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64-bit Computing by matt

Now that I've bought my new AMD64 system, I'm very keen to try the BETA Windows x64 versions. While doing a bit of reading up around the subject I noticed, to my surprise, that the Intel PIV Prescott and Xeon's support the x64 extenstions too! I have just finished burning the build 1247 of Windows Server 2003 for x64 to CD and am installing on a nice new Dell 2850 with 2X3.4GHz Xeons. It should be interesting to see how it compares. I'm gonna pop in 8GB of RAM just to see if it really does support...
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