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A week running Windows for work
So a bit over a week ago I installed Windows 8.1 on the MacBook Pro that I use for work. Largely because I spend a fair bit of time dealing with Office documents these days and having to run those applications in a virtual machine was annoying me ( Read more... ) -
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I'm unhelpfully tempted to try sticking Windows 8.1 Pro on this MacBook Pro in Boot Camp mode ( Read more... ) -
My first day with Stan
It's a public holiday and my eye is still being troublesome, so I've spent much of it watching stuff on the telly via Stan.
High-def streaming is definitely working quite nicely. Watched Skyfall, which being a Bond film has lots of fast motion and explosions and whatnot, and it didn't skip a beat. The audio was most definitely surround. There were ( Read more... ) -
A first very quick look at Stan
Stan is the latest cab off the rank in the Australian video streaming market. This one's a joint venture between Channel Nine and Fairfax ( Read more... ) -
Things
My eye has been playing silly-buggers this week. Dry, a little light-sensitive, sometimes itchy. Enough that I can work for maybe an hour before I have to give it a rest. So it's not been super-awesome-productive-time ( Read more... ) -
Dragon Age: Inquisition and the AMD R9 280X
So I bought this nifty new video card to replace my ~four year old card so I could turn the knobs up to 11 in DA:I for maximum pretty. This means going from an nVidia GeForce 570 GTX to an AMD Radeon R9 280X.
After some fun and games getting the new card working (it wasn't obvious to me that it needs three power cables connected and the ( Read more... ) -
More Chromecast
So I wasn't super-thrilled with this when I first got the Chromecast, to the point where I unplugged the thing to get the HDMI port back ( Read more... ) -
Not dead yet.
It's been lovely having most of three weeks off. Stayed home pretty much the whole time, reading, watching The Walking Dead (which I had given up on somewhere in season one first time around, and have now watched all of and am waiting for season five to come back in a few weeks), some movies, played some Warcrack, all that sort of fairly low-key ( Read more... ) -
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Watched and listened-to (first on the ABC News24 stream, later on the 774 audio stream as News24 dropped it two-thirds of the way in!) the memorial for Stella Young. It was by turns moving and funny, which seems appropriate ( Read more... ) -
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And so it turns out that the hostage-taker was indeed a nut. A nut who was well-known to the police, who'd self-radicalised, who felt he'd been pushed off the edge by the High Court rejecting his appeal on conviction for sending hateful letters to the family members of terrorism victims and casualties in Afghanistan ( Read more... )