Archive for December, 2005

Amazingly the LCDs actually arived only 2 days after the last blog I did. Delivery man woke me up at about 1:30pm and passed me the 2 large boxes.

I set them up and they work great and look awesome. I had a bit of trouble with playing WoW on the 2nd monitor because Direct3D doesn’t do 3D acceleration on secondary monitors so I had to make a simple VB app to change to primary then back again. Unfortunatly, I don’t have the digital camera because parents took it with them when they went overseas so I took some really crap pictures with my phone:

I also found that the Hampstead exchange is “In Build” and so I finally ordered the ADSL2+ plan so now I have cable accounts and an ADSL2+ plan. Location is only about 1km from the exchange too, so I should get some pretty awesome speeds.

Christmas Eve was pretty boring family stuff. Cousin let me borrow his MX1000 mouse because he doesn’t like wireless until I get my new keyboard and mouse (hopefully in January). MX1000 works really well. Christmas Day was great and had a great dinner with Sunee’s family.

Anyway, there hasn’t been much news, so yeah thats it.

Finally results are out.

Got up at 8am, wen’t on to the SSABSA website which was getting hammered and got my results.

What more can I say than, I’m gonna get in to the course i wanna get into. IB don’t get their results till the first week of January so Uni placements don’t occur till the 2nd week.

Dell LCDs expected on the 3rd of January

WAH BLOG ORLY

Shoutbox Fix
I’m gonna go and fix the shoutbox now, seems to be a bug where it doesn’t parse the ‘ and ” correctly. So no, you didn’t type those /s in :p

Results
Well in about 8 hours or so SSABSA will be releasing the Year 12 results. I’ve been told to many dates that range from last Friday till this Friday but finally in The Advertiser today they announced that at 8am it would be available on the Internet and also in mailboxes tomorrow. Hopefully, I want to get 70+ even though my course only needs 66 (from last year anyway). Hopeing to do Computer Science and Commerce Law at UniSA.

Project Halcyon
I have split the project into 3 phases. Phase One will include the 2 Dell 20.1″ Widescreen LCD monitors that were ordered today. Hopefully these will arive around the 3rd of Janurary 2006. Phase 2 is small and only includes the new keyboard and speakers, hopefully completed by around March-April. Phase 3 is the main box which will be completed around June-July. I have put up rough specs which will obviously change as time goes on. http://digitaldj.net/halcyonparts.html

Microsoft News
Theres been a ton of new stuff, especially to do with the whole “Live” thing. Live.com is a new site launched by Microsoft basically allowing you to set it as your homepage and use RSS feeds to display what you want.

The Live Mail Beta is the new Hotmail. At first I thaught it looked bare but it really is starting to shape up. Not many new features have been added but the way you use Hotmail has definatly changed.

MS also are working toward home security with in the new Live phase with the online check at http://safety.live.com/ and the new OneCare Live Beta, which is currently only available to testers.

As usual they are also working on the Instant Messaging and Mobile Messaging deal, and so the Windows Live Messenger Beta has begun. Current build is 8.0.0365 and available to download at http://digitaldj.net/msn/. An update to MSN Messenger 7.5 has also been released bumping up the build to 0322. With Windows Live Messenger comes Windows Live Favorites and Windows Live Search which basically allow you to either search and check out your favorites from anywhere.

Finally, in the Live deal comes the Windows Live Local which is basically a copy of Google Earth, but not as good. Can be found at http://local.live.com/

Office 12 Beta has begun and released to testers but there hasn’t been much news on it. The December CTP of Vista was also released yesterday with a ton of new features and improvements and hopefully Beta 2 will be out soon. The build tag for this build is 5270.x86fre.winmain_idx03.051212-1830

R2 products like Windows Server and Virtual Server have also RTMed and been released and there were a few updates to Windows the other day, so make sure you get them.

Tech News
I haven’t followed that much tech news lately because I’ve been playing WoW and there ain’t much new in WoW either. Patch 1.9 is still in development but isn’t ready for release yet (I don’t think).

I personally can’t think of that much lately, however, DivX 6, AutoPatcher December 2005 and ATi Catalyst 5.13 were released in the past few days.

Thats all for now. I’m gonna fix the shoutbox, then bed probally – Just wanna get my results. I’m also gonna have a great time alone for a few weeks which will be great