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Upgraded Automation Adventures to Wordpress 2.7
I’ve just upgraded Automation Adventures to Wordpress 2.7. Everything seems to work fine, but let me know if you run into any problems.
Is Microsoft deliberately trying to kill Vista?
As I twittered about a week ago, I’m upgrading from Vista to XP. Vista has become very unstable over the last year that I’ve been using it, and all the beta drivers and programs that I had to install to support 64 bit probably did their share of damage. Not to mention the WOW64 addition [...]
Gaming PC upgrade for $500
Firing Squad has a break-down of a $500 gaming PC upgrade. Roughly the components are as follows:
Component
Suggestion
Price
Supplier
Notes
GPU
NVidia GeForce 8800 GT
$249.99
Zipzoomfly
Alternatives: Radeon X1950 Pro
CPU
Athlon 64 X2 4000+
$75.90
Zipzoomfly
Newegg has same price for X2 4000+ and X2 4800+, $99.99. Alternative: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
$79.99
Newegg
AMD-690 chipset, micro-ATX. Alternative: MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (ATX).
Memory
OCZ PC2-6400 Paltinum Revision 2 Dual [...]
Automation Adventures upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1
There was a small outage today as I was upgrading various parts of the website to Wordpress 2.3.1. It actually took a lot longer than expected, caused in part by the refusal of GoDaddy to accept two FTP connections from the same IP address. Plus, when I came back after transferring the new version, there [...]