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Ordered Microsoft Technet Subscription earlier today, getting prepared for some serious study towards my MCSA, MCSE, Vista and Windows 2008 Certifications. Really looking forward to firing up some Virtual Machines and playing about…

One thing i want to get into is RIS installations and then migrating users from 2003 server to 2008 (using 64bit Exchange etc).

On another note - Got my contact lenses on Monday! damn i love them, getting them in is a pain but I’m sure this will get easier with time. Had a lenses fall out today because wasn’t in properly (doh!) - No more steaming up glasses!

Starky

Failed again… now i’m starting to get slightly annoyed with this exam!

Hopeing to have this re-booked in 2 weeks which i shall study my a$$ off to pass this…

Chris

Instead of album art it would display the contents of the screen, in real time. How lovely.

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“I have taken the liberty of taking 28 screenshots to compare the 4 different interfaces available in Windows Vista: Aero Glass, Vista Standard, Vista Basic and Windows Classic. These screenshots were taken on the same applications and layouts to give you a feel of the exact changes it makes to an user experience.”

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Today i successfully configured my Cisco 2501 router to ping servers on the internet and forward conenctions to my ADSL router.

My Cisco 2501 router doesn’t have a ADSL modem built in, so i had to manually set the default gateway for the Cisco router to my ADSL router which at present is (192.168.0.1). I then had to set a DNS server, again my ADSL router. The Cisco router was getting the IP of google fine but wasn’t pinging it, so i had to enable something (i forgot now, but i enabled about 3 different things at once) and can now ping google.co.uk!

I then changed my default gateway on my XP machine to 192.168.0.30 (Cisco Router) and the Cisco Router was successfully redirecting the connection to my ADSL Router! Otherwise i wouldn’t have been able to access the interweb.

Next job is to limit my speed to a 56k speed and see how slow the Internet is and to see if speed limiting works. I got another Cisco 2503 router which i have a couple of new ideas for.

Might take the CCNA one day!

w00t, finally ive managed to move my Cstark.net name server to the same as this host (To tell a lie i opened my eyes and finally saw the option. ;)). That means i don’t have to risk losing the domain now as its all registered for another year!

Means i can do something different as well now, w00t!

// CsTarX

Just watched this awesome battlefield 2 movie called “Mine”.

Heres the url - Download here It’s a 60mb file but worth the download, it’s pure class.

// CsTarX

I’ve installed Fedora Core 4 on my spare hard drive located inside my main computer. Now the only way i see my self learning Linux and the such is to use Linux as my main opearting system, yes you got it. I’m going to try my hardest to run all my daily apps on Linux (cept for games) and see how i go.

// CsTarX