Mrs Sneddon’s 50th, originally uploaded by generalsmirnov.
Last Saturday night was Mrs Sneddon’s 50th birthday party at Banjo Pattersons restaurant at Gladesville. It was a great night with a jazz band and great food!
This is actually my first test of the BlackBerry email system I will use (through Flickr) to upload photos and notes about my upcoming Europe trip! I have only 2 days left to go, but please tell me what you think!
Sent from my BlackBerry® from Optus
The relentless pace of technology is exciting, but sometimes this fast paced environment leaves its past behind a little prematurely. I was on the receiving end of one such problem this week.
I purchased a new ATI graphics card, the x1950Pro AGP version to work with my existing nforce3 motherboard. It is running an Athlon X2 processor and has 2GB of RAM, so it isn’t an outdated machine by any stretch. I plugged in the new card expecting everything to go smoothly, however it kept failing with a code 43 “Device failed to start” error. Vista recognised the card correctly, however it just would not leave the graphical ‘safe mode’. I initially suspected the card was faulty, however after a bit of googling I managed to find others with the exact same problem.
In fact not only did I find others, I found an acknowledgement from Nvidia themselves of the problem. It was snuck in at the end of one of their website FAQ’s and reads:
There is a known issue with ATI AGP cards with NVIDIA nForce3 and Vista. This is currently being looked into and will likely be resolved with an MCP driver update.
In fact this problem has been known about and acknowledged since the start of this year, and reported on the 7th of February. Still nothing has been done, there is no MCP update and I am still left sitting out in the cold. Nvidia has been infamously slack with their Vista drivers in general, now they are blocking ATI cards too (Nvidia cards work fine)? I think that is a little too convenient and completely unethical to be honest.
I will be attending the Microsoft Technet presentation that Jeff Alexander announced on his blog recently. This should be a great session for those
(like myself) who may not want to upgrade yet, but are making decisions now that will ease the upgrade path in the future. The agenda is as follows:
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Part 1, 60 mins: Group Policy Deep Dive: Managing Policy Features, Troubleshooting, Lets face it, you’re not going to deploy Vista overnight but at some stage you will begin to think about the incremental additions to your network. So what do you need to know in order to get ready for it? There’s new policy settings and other stuff that you need to know about before you begin the deployment process. This session tells you all of them! |
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Part 2, 60 mins: Longhorn Server: The Technical Overview Before you know it Longhorn Server will be upon us. There’s so much in it to understand though and so little time to understand what each bit does. In this session we’re going to go through the top 10 things in Longhorn Server that customers asked us for |
Sound good? You can register for the Sydney session here. Hope to see you there!!!
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