Windows Tail

I have been trolling logs and logs from WAS for a few days now - trying to ensure that the UAT effort doesn't get derailed. Found a really really useful tool!



Bare Metal Software BareTail - Free tail for Windows

Windows - Vista RC1

I've had some fun installing that on my t41 laptop.



I tried the upgrade path a couple of times, once just straight out of the box - which failed miserably. Taking about 90 minutes and getting to around 80% completed before rolling back to XP. Thankfully, XP seemed to be working fine after the rollback.



I searched around, found a site where they reviewed their experiences with the same laptop - and they did a BIOS upgrade. I did same, but saw the same error message as the first time around.



I then decided to move to Vista as a clean install - this worked beautifully, although there were a few irritations;

- No wireless networking out of the box - I had to use a cable to connect to my router - but the windows vista update picked up a new driver for my network card, and whammo - worked perfectly.

- No support for the old virus checker I had installed.



On the upside, Vista saved my 'documents and settings', 'windows' and 'program files' directories from XP (and moved them to windows.old), which at least allowed me to see what I had installed previously. I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right place, but I can't seem to find my Firefox 2 bookmarks. Apparently they should be located here.



Otherwise, it's running fine - I have yet to see how all the power management options that Joel Sposky was talking about here.

Do you want to play some football!

I played in the Australian Corporate Games today.

I don't know if I have ever been as sore before. Really nice pitches up in Thornbury, right near Guyman's house - unfortunately he was out fishing this weekend, otherwise I'd have visited.

Unfortunately I thought we were signed up for 6-a-side - which is pretty easy - as it turns out, we were playing on a full pitch - with essentially no training. Amazingly, we won the first match 4-0 - and I did a couple of really good things.

From there, the fitness factor started to show, and my shoes became tighter and tighter - I've rubbed a 20c piece of skin off my ankle.

We managed to lose the second game 8-0 - to the team who ended up winning the pool (they scored 8-0, 8-0 and 16-0 - and were the champions from last year apparently - And the last game was a heart breaker - a 2-1 loss.

I'm sore, but had a good time - and met some of the guys from the business section of our department.

Testing testing, 123

Just installed the full 1.3.5 version of performancing from here:



https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=1730

Blog migration, and other bits and pieces

I'm migrating the other 4 blogs that I post in to my main one - now that Blogger beta has labels!

I can see that I've not really posted about either of the kids for about 5 months - I have really been distracted with school, and trying to get stuff done at work too. Anyway, I will rectify, as these are the times that I want to really record well for the kids, so that they can have some kind record of their early life - something that I don't really have, or have access to any more.

Merger..

My company has been involved in a takeover.. :)

Well, it's all been announced to the ASX, so it looks like it's all going ahead. Hopefully we will here something around early December.

Bill seems pretty excited by it (no kidding, he who stands to make the most amount of cash!), but it sounds like all staff members are going to get a decent whack out of the merger too.