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I’ve just been listening to We’ve Come For You All, the latest album from the heavy metal group Anthrax.
These guys have been going for about 20 years now, which is longer than some current ‘Metal’ bands have been alive for. If you like metal (Because if you don’t, the following is not recommended) and you listen to tracks from throughout their history it’s amazing to hear them literally growing up and becoming more and more professional with each release. Their latest album got me going again for some reason and brought a smile to my face. Charlie Benante is on top form, I can’t comment about the lyrics as lyrics never register with me, but the drumming on this one is classic.

Recommended.

My site has not been hacked.
I have actually uploaded a new photograph.
*Gasp*

I intend to do this once a day and once every 2 days at the slackest.

How long this crazy enthusiasm will last, I have no idea.

musicplasma : the music visual search engine

Check it out now. Absolutely awesome for people like me who live in a bubble and find it hard to find new music due to the lack of a TV or radio.

Though I’m not convinced it’s not really due to the lack of decent current bands…

For those who remember, there are 13 days to go before I can breathe a sigh of relief and know for sure I did the right thing.

For those who don’t? Click here.

Today I had a fiddle with Norton Ghost.
It went horribly wrong.
I have a SATA HDD and an ASUS P4P800 motherboard, and oh boy once it got into DOS did things go haywire. Norton suggest using the switch -NOIDE if you’re using only a SATA drive, which lets GHOST run, but won’t let the program that reboots your PC run.

So what happened?

Ghost creates a “Virtual partition” and makes it the boot partition. It puts some files in here. If you are unable to reboot using GHREBOOT as I was, you are left in a mess. Rebooting only causes the PC to repeatedly boot off the virtual partition back to DOS, with no apparent way of gettng back to Windows.

After a lot of research on another PC, a lot of frantic questions to friends and some wall thumping, I used FDisk to reset the active partition to what I thought was the right NTFS volume (FDisk is a bit funny with NTFS volumes…) and once it (successfully) booted back into Windows, used drive management to delete the weirdass virtual partition and the 2.8g of unallocated space it seemed to have created.

I then uninstalled Ghost.

Ugh.

Some of you may recall a little while back I was building a PC and Overclockers UK screwed up the order. RMA frenzy. Some of you may also recall last week I was building a PC for myself, and EBuyer screwed up the order.
Today, I’m building a PC for my parents and, guess what…
Overclockers UK got the order spot on and it arrived bang on time.

I should pretend it’s for my parents every time I order from OCUK, they seem to get it right then.

For those of you who are interested, it’s going to be a weeny BioStar SFF box, rather nifty I thought.

bowman

That little flash game kept me amused for hours last night when I should have been doing something to make some money.

*sigh*

See if you can beat the PC with wall and wind enabled. Took me ages…

An interesting little piece on Microsoft, about them telling the world that Open Source software is a waste of money.
Excuse me?
Rambling outbursts like this amuse me sometimes, which is why I posted it for you. It goes on to suggest that open source software is not free, because the companies supporting it are commercially motivated, just like Microsoft. Ho hum. One thing they fail to pick up on is that those who choose to help themselves aren’t subject to a squillion and one security updates, ID trackers and monster license fees.
Maybe I’ve got the wrong end of some stick here, but it looks like Micro$oft wants make clear to the world that when you program Open Source, you program Communism. Interestingly enough, they’re trying to sell this viewpoint to the East, most notably China and the rest of the rapidly developing nations out there. I wonder if they’ve noticed that they’re not Capitalists? Mind you, it wouldn’t be unlike good old Uncle Sam to roam into a country ignorant to said country’s social and economic quirks… :S

Something on my desk is rattling, so I will stop typing until I’ve nailled it down.