Irrelevant is my relevant …

Upgrading a copy of Windows 7 RC to a retail copy is much simpler than you could have ever expected. I am sure there are a million and one guides on the internet on how to do this by now. But I thought I would blog my experiences. The process is a painless one but one that will require you to walk away and make a few cups of tea.

Steps:

1. Don’t try and ‘upgrade’ straight off the DVD it will not work! you will see this:
2. Instead, copy the DVD to a folder on the local hard drive and then edit the file \sources\cversion.ini
3. Change the cversion.ini ‘MinClient’ option to a version before or equal to the version on the notice on your desktop stamp.Example if the desktop says

   

   then change the file to

   

   And save the file.

4. Launce Setup.exe in the folder the DVD was coped to and select the ‘Upgrade’ option when prompted.
5. Follow the on screen instructions and wait.
6. Tada!

Hope it works, worked perfectly for me!

I am not sure I could ask for a better windows blog writing application. Appears to work seamlessly, sometimes Microsoft just do things right!

hurrah!

Test image insertion:

Test hyperlink:

Test URL

Brilliant!

How to make Skittle Vodka.

Looks good, particularly the colour.

Skittles Vodka Tutorial | Mix That Drink.

SiN Computer Game

SiN was one of my favourite games when I was younger and clearly showed improvements on the Quake 2 engine from which it was based. Unfortunately at the time of release Half Life was also released as a result SiN was thrown into shadow.

In my oppinion SiN was a better game, I wasted many hours playing the game online and sniping from the crane.

SiN seems to have almost died on the internet, finding the source code for the game proved a difficult thing. Therefore I have hosted it here for any other fans who fancy a look through the source code. It makes a fairly interesting read.

Download SiN Source Code (~500k)

The download file was originally sin110source.exe but has been repacked. No one wants a self decompressing file, it is now a .zip not a .exe.

Additional Resources:

Interesting article on the development of SiN

Original SiN game site on Archive.org

Running order for BloodStock Open Air 2008:

BloodStock 2008 Running Order

Click on image to englarge.

Impressive lightning video

Flash video of lightning striking in very slow motion,

Nostalgia…

A friend of mine got me playing UFO: Enemy Unknown again the other day, I can’t say the idea thrilled me but I thought I would give it a go none the less. I have to say I had completely forgotten how great old games were to play. Yes yes yes the graphics were not so hot, but the gameplay was totally amazing. Something that has been long forgotten about recently.

This got me thinking, I own all the Space Quests and Police Quest games (they are in a box in the loft) and I remember wasting my childhood playing them. I thought how amazing would it be to play these games again?

Considering I legally own these games, I set about googling a place to download them. So very easy, a simple google search for:

• “sq1.zip“
• “sq2.zip“
• “pq1.zip“
• “policequest2.zip“
• I think you get the idea.

A few minutes later I had my complete collection. Knowing these games would no longer work on the bloated operating systems of modern day I set about downloading DosBox.

DosBox is a dos emulation utility, it is open source and as such free. Plays all the games perfectly, here are a few screenshots.

I have to admit I am hooked playing space quest, dreamweb and UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Its too orangey for crows!

I’ll be your dog!

Kiora advert mp3 … legendary

Im so glad it isnt:

Kiora

Snow…….. Heh the view from my window at 7am :

Photos of the snow

Looks like its not even worth trying to make a trip into work today. SNOW DAY….