Back in August I purchased a HP Mini 110 netbook PC. Since the initial release of netbooks, I had been a little hesitant about using one because of the size of the screen and the resolution that accompanied it. I decided to take the plunge anyway because it would be handy to have a small computer that I can carry around with me.
I had previously recommended the Samsung NC10 to friends, but at the time I was purchasing mine, this model had been replaced, and I got a very good deal on the HP and a Canon DSLR camera.
The HP came with Windows XP Home, and I was very pleased to find that the resolution could be increased to 1366 x 768. Some people may think this is too small for a screen size of 10.1 inches. I have found the screen a pleasure to use and not at all too small.
Although Windows XP is one of Microsoft’s better operating systems (and I liked Vista, it just had a few problems) I have become used to the look and feel of Windows 7 as I have be using it on my other machines since Microsoft made the Public Beta available. So I decided to take the plunge and install a clean copy of Windows 7 (the RTM version). A colleague of mine installed Windows 7 on his Asus Eee netbook, which, considering it has a SSD drive, took considerably longer than mine to install and failed to install the graphics drivers correctly, causing him a few headaches whilst he tried to find drivers that would work.
As netbooks don’t have in-built CD/DVD drives, I followed this guide to install Windows 7 from a USB stick. I only had a 2GB stick available to me so I used vLite to strip some un-needed files from the installation media before following that guide.
I wasn’t sure what to expect once the installation had fully completed, but I have found the experience of Windows 7 thus far to be very close to that of Windows XP. Ok, so it probably is a little slower, but not too different that I am considering a downgrade back to Windows XP. Not yet anyway…
I will post some more about my experiences as I use the Windows 7 packing netbook more and more.
Virgin Media SuperHub 2: Changing the LAN IP
We've just moved house and I called up the requested 2 weeks before the move and informed Virgin Media. The 2 weeks was sufficient time for me to arrange a Virgin Media engineer to come to our new house, on the day we moved in, and set up our services.
We originally had the old SuperHub, but the engineer replaced it with the new SuperHub (which I wasn't expecting) and so I had to reconfigure the new router with my desired settings.
In my experience, the old SuperHub was renowned for dropping the Internet connection and required a reboot to get things working again. This happened so regularly, that I had to use a timer to power the router off, once a day, and then back on again. This was done in the early hours of the morning to avoid any active Internet sessions.
Eventually I grew tired of this and decided to use the SuperHub in modem mode and connect another router with a WAN port to resolve this issue.
So with the new SuperHub 2 I decided to reduce the hardwar
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