Archive for March 12th, 2008


Lately Ive been listening to CD’s again in my car. As a result I have now adopted the following time keeping method

It took me “Metallica – Ride the Lightning.1″ to get to work the first morning I adopted this.

The basic rule of this is “Artist – Album (*n) .x”, where “n” is the amount of times you played the full album, and x is the last track that started on the album

What this means is that i listened to all of Ride the Lightning, then the first track again.

Im mightily chuffed with this. Im calling it Phelan Time, and soon there will be a Jimmy’s Calendar, much more accurate and air-grabbing than the feckin Roman Calendar or even the shake-your-hips-to Mayan Calendar.

Today it took me “Serj Tankian – Elect the Dead.3″ to get into work. :)

I had a job yesterday to install 7 6200 PCI cards (PCI, not PCI-E, that wasnt a typo).

All machines were Fujitsu Siemens x102 Desktops. All had onboard SIS graphics.

All but 2 went without issue. I was having serious frustrations with the drivers between the SIS and the Nvidia.

On all others I installed the nvidia drivers without issue. But on two machines, when i went to the display settings, i would get a “this driver is not for this version of windows, using Default VGA Driver” (the actual error was longer than that, but thats the drift of it).

So i first updated the SIS drivers. No go

After some head scratching the solution presented itself, rather round-aboutly!

I removed all of the drivers for all VGA cards

I set the PCI card as the Primary Video Card in the Phoenix BIOS.

Start windows. Install Nvidia drivers first. Restart. install SIS drivers. All working lovely.

A BIOS flash was required on one of the machines to show the option to disable the onboard graphics.

This post should serve as a warning to most of America and people who fail to engage their brain before entrusting their vehicles and lives to some power several kilometers above their heads! (read: not God or any other $deity)

A certain amount of Common Sense is required when using any technology. Here is a pic from my car while driving on the Mitchelstown Bypass.

Have a look at the following:

GPS eh?