Zorac's LiveJournal

Finally have my machine working to spec - tweaking the BIOS to force the memory to run at the same speed as the CPU rather than insanely fast seems to have done the trick. After making that change I could put my RAM in without the annoyingly cheerful audio warning and subsequent failure to boot. Hurrah. Re-installation of extraneous crud has continued apace, and the bootup time is back up to it's normal value rather than the blink-and-you'll-miss-it times on a bare XP install. On the plus side, I've discovered the Hibernate function - this saves the systems state to disc, bringing back the ultra-fast boot time with the added bonus that all your apps are exactly where you left them when you shut down. Ran some benchmarks and am suitably pleased with the speed increases - go go Google Compute.

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Hmm. It appears that a large portion of what I thought was my to-do pile was actually either stuff I'd already done, or a bunch of images with "Do Not Distribute" on them - which I therefore won't be uploading to the site. That notwithstanding, I have uploaded 14 new fan-art images, plus the latest Halloween pic from Eric's site. As always, contributions of fan art or (distributable) EWS pics are welcome - and I may even try to get them on the site a little more promptly.