Well, I’ve fixed the image problem – but it makes it much lower resolution than I wanted to use… so I’m guessing that some
btw – I know that
Fixed!!
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Daily Archives: August 8, 2005
Images….
Well, unless I can work this out, it seems that my install image has kinda bust the blog…. or the blogroll at least!! The width of the image seems to have pushed all the blogroll stuff to the very bottom – as the “central colum” isn’t wide enough to fit it all in….. I’m going to try resizing the image – but I guess I’m going to have to learn some php and work out how to make the colums resize on the fly / automagically…. or even just learn how to make it bigger full stop!!
The Gimp seems pretty good for this sort of stuff – but I’m a total novice with it…. so the image sould get a little fubar’d before I’m through!!
Longhorn / Vista – Installation on Virtual PC
Well….. all I can say is – don’t expect it to be quick…..
Admittedly, I am running it on a P4 1.7Ghz Machine – but there’s been nothing else running for the last 3 hours – and it’s got 512 Mb RAM allocated to the VM – so it shouldn’t have a problem with that….. it just takes ages to complete. I’ve been looking at this for the last 45 minutes…
The progress bar gets to the end, and then starts again….. over and over and over…… I’m sure it’ll be lovely when it’s finished….. I can’t wait!!
I’ll let you know what it’s like in the morning……
On a related note, the memory upgrade for my laptop has been dispatched – I’m buying 512Mb each month (this and next) to upgrade it from 256 to 1Gb – which hopefully will make Vista a more enjoyable experience for all concerned!! Once it arrives I’ll actually start the upgrade process on that – based on this experience, I think the memory might be a killer right now!!
SyncToy
I’ve also just downloaded the Beta of the
From what I’ve read, it’s designed to keep folders synchronized between machines – so I should be able to sync my photo’s from my PC to my laptop at home for example. I’m currently using
Vista Beta 1
Well, I’ve finally downloaded the ISO from
I’ll be intrigued to see if it picks up my UK keyboard, and how it works out my timezone etc.
If it all goes well, I’m thinking of making my laptop at home a dual boot machine – I have a second hard drive that goes in the multi-bay slot that I currently use for backups….. I might just vape that and try it out as well – to see what performance is like on a dedicated machine rather that a VPC….. I suspect that I’ll have to bite the bullet and buy some more RAM though – the 256Mb I have at the moment is likely to kill performance more that anything.
Plenty more to come in the coming days / weeks I suspect…. 🙂