There are many people who have had problems installing install Windows 7 64-bit on many older EFI based machines like the Aluminium Macbook Pro. The problem manifests itself in Vista SP1 64-bit. There are a few articles around detailing why this is and many more showing how to solve it. The problem is around the [...]
Category Archives: Computers
Caller ID laziness
At my house, we have a VoIP line provided by Xnet. In my house, I have a small QoS router that has two POTS plug that allow my to plug my normal phones into the VoIP line. What is even better is that the Caller ID that comes with the line also gets displayed on [...]
Migrating Servers
Tom and I have decided to move all of our sites from our hosting at StartLogic to something a little more reliable. We decided to give MediaTemple‘s Grid-Service a go. I’ve been trying to get all our sites migrated over but because we want as little disruption as possible we needed everything that was running [...]
Network Topology
Last Thursday afternoon, a close friend of mine gave me a call to ask whether a discounted price he had seen for an iPod Touch was a good deal or not. He was pretty keen on getting an iPod Touch even though the iPhone 2.0 is released in a couple of weeks but he seemed [...]
Hosting Woes
Tom and I have had a hosting account with Startlogic for a few years now, it was very competitively priced and we wanted a cheap VPS. We haven’t had too many problems up until now, the uptime is good and the problems faced so far have only been with slow response times to online tickets [...]