Vista PC

17th June, 2007

Now that my PC isn’t critical to my activities, I decided to give Windows Vista a go. I started off by buying a simple new SATA harddisk, which should have been exceptionally easy to install until I discovered that it came supplied with the disk and an engrish manual/2-by-4 sheet of paper with nonsense-instructions printed, and absolutely nothing else. Because I have SATA cables and jumper pins growing in magical pots ten to the dozen here it was fine…

Actually what this really meant was I had to go on an unnecessary search for these things but eventually all was fine and I had a third HDD within my PC. I attempted to install Vista on the new disk while disconnecting the old ones so as to preserve my XP setup but something in the BIOS didn’t like this, and it ended up not detecting the SATA drive.

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i-Dat 2007

8th January, 2007

Introduction to AI

This module actually looks like hell of a breath of fresh air compared to recent drudging through essays and programming. Taught by Plymouth’s professor of AI, Angelo Cangelosi.

Essay

Using a touch sensitive screen to select an area to zoom to within my camera interface.