Portal of Knowledge The blog of Sam Leach. Years late.

FastestFox

Get FastestFox to load following pages when you scroll to the bottom of the current page. For example on google it will load the next search result page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9825

Fixing Windows7 MBR

The ever-so-familiar fixmbr doesn't work with Windows7 and probably not with Vista either.

What you want is:

bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr

Recover your Windows 7 partition when multi-booting goes wrong!

Passed my UK driving theory Test this morning!

Got 47/50 for the multiple choice part and 57/75 for the hazard perception part! Pass marks are 43/50 and 44/75 respectively.

I studied for maybe 2hours for the hazard perception test and around 4hours for the multiple choice. Bearing in mind I took a similar multiple choice test when I was 16 for my 50cc bike license. Quite pleased!

Theory Driving Text Tomorrow

I am going for my theory car driving test tomorrow morning (in 6 hours). Going to stay up revising. Also need to find out where the test centre actually is...

PokerStars Daily £2000 UK Freeroll

I finished "in the money" in yesterdays UK Freeroll on PokerStars. Finished around 500-600th place and won about $1.50! Yeah! Then proceaded to loose a $1.15 Double or Nothing SitnGo!

PokerStars is doing this freeroll and another £250 one at 21.30 every day until March'ish time so if you have a PokerStars account and live in the UK you are missing out by not playing in it.

Installed Windows 7 on 6-7 year old Notebook

As I previously wrote, the 40GB HDD in my aging Dell Insipron 600m laptop died so I installed Ubuntu on a 16GB USB stick. That served me well for a good while but I just bought a cheap 40GB replacement drive off eBay for under 20 pounds and installed Windows 7 Professional on it. To my surprise it installed fine but was missing most drivers so I thought I'd have a proper mission to find some compatible Windows 7 drivers. Turns out though that all the XP ones from the Dell site work perfectly with Windows 7!

I got Windows 7 Pro for free from MSDN as I am a Computer Science student

It runs surprisingly well considering the laptop only has 512MB ram. Writting this with Firefox open it is using 352MB. Visual Studio 2008 runs fine too. Aero wont enable as it has a Radeon 9000 graphics card which doesn't support DirectX 9. Tried the various hacks online but no joy.

I have set a side a 10GB partition where I plan to install Windows XP Pro SP3 because Windows 7 just like Vista still feels slower than good ole' XP!

Amazed that the XP drivers worked though, seems strange.

Backing up 1.3TB to DVD-R!

I saw two x50 DVD-R Spindles sitting on my desk so I decided to (start) organising and backing up a few years of data and media.

I am using ImgBurn to do this.

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

It's the best free burning software I have come across. It used to only burn images (isos, bins, etc) iirc but now it will burn anything it seams.