I can now blog by SMS! Using twitter.

This series of posts, in the “computer” category, is a rolling project about my PC. To start off with it’s just stuff I’ve done in the past, but pretty soon we should hit what I’m doing now, which is a bunch of case mods.

But for now, here’s how my 1st, and longest running build started out:

A µATX mobo, an E6600, and some Orange RAM.

An X1900XT 512MB, which only just fits.

Far to many wires (note to self: go modular next PSU).

And a sexy case, with a neat floppy dive/card reader combi.

No clocking on this small scale, it’s a little warm.

Next time; the SFF mods.

All by themselves.

I have a new project section of the site in the works, it’s a bunch of simple pages that you can use to diagnose people’s browser set-ups.

There are currently 2 pages finished:

IP test

JavaScript test

Enjoy

You may - or may not - have heard this, but AVG has a feature, which pre-checks all search results.

Terrific! Unfortunately this means it loads every single page, even if the user is never going to click them.

Up until now, they have used a “user-agent” which identifies AVG, but they have now changed it to exactly match IE6. So we can no longer remove them from statistics, block them, or my favourite; redirect the request to AVG’s own site.

Some pages which feature in a lot of searches are facing a tenfold increase in page requests! So techies: start recommending Avast instead as a free anti-virus, it scores better in ICSA labs testing anyway.

Sauce: El’Reg

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