The bank holiday gave me a chance to get into the garden and continue to sort it Which I Am Determined To Do This Year. So far, I haven’t achieved much: I’ve painted the shed and most of the fence and have planned where to put some new beds and a new path. I’ve also started to grow my first ever batch of tomatoes. My grandad was actually very good at this sort of thing. I’m not sure he’d be so impressed with me as I slung a grobag and a bottle of Tomorite in the back of the car…
Anyway, rain stopped play in the garden, so I turned my attention to MarcZone and began to move a bunch of old equipment (PS2, GameCube, Old PCs, Endless Cables…) into the attic and garage along with about 4 ton of old computer books (SQL Server 7.0! VBScript! .NET Framework 1.0! etc.). Amazing collection of stuff that I’ll never need, but defines my path as a developer and so I don’t have the heart to throw them away. (I regretted throwing away the last batch.)
With that done, it meant that the little voice in my head that tells me I have a real life was appeased (LadyH mainly…), and it was on with the “Install Windows 7 RC!” parade.
It’s been a positive experience again. 3 machines are done with just my Netbook (MSI Wind) remaining (just because I couldn’t be bothered sorting out a USB key for the job- so lazy I know):
- Work: Lenovo T61p (x64). No trouble at all and I was back and running in less than two hours (with quite a bit of software installed).
- Home: Custom (AMD/ATI) (x64). Bit of bother this time around as the on board ATI X1300 is not being recognised, but the main card (X1800) is, so I’ve swapped a couple of settings and now running with two monitors rather than 3 (until I find a fix). (Then I started thinking “Hmm, I quite fancy a new monitor or two..”)
- MediaCenter: Custom (Intel/NVidia) (x64). Great experience. This one was troublesome last time as the NIC wasn’t recognised, but all of that has gone away in RC. Also, the MediaCenter configuration was faster and ‘worked first time’.
@Jamesoneill points out on his blog that the Easy Transfer Wizard is rather handy. Too true! I normally try to keep regular back-ups of code, and these days all of my documents are in Groove or Mesh so I tend not to lose stuff, but this time I had a load of AVCHD files and thought “Let’s give it a whirl”. Again, great experience and saved all of the annoying settings for me: email sigs, Notebook locations and all that.
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