Matt Dyson » tech 107 http://mattdyson.org My life, and everything in it Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:23:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Tech 107 Episode #4 http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/tech-107-episode-4/ http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/tech-107-episode-4/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:07:26 +0000 Matt http://mattdyson.co.uk/?p=176 Originally broadcast on Tuesday 9th February, this week Seb Payne and I talk about a whole host of things, including full body scanning at airports, sex robots, Microsoft history of failures, Chrome OS, how you should back up your data, and a whole load more!

You can download the podcast by visiting the Tech 107 website or by using the iTunes store.

]]> http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/tech-107-episode-4/feed/ 0 Windows 7 on a Inspiron 510m http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/windows-7-on-a-inspiron-510m/ http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/windows-7-on-a-inspiron-510m/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:52:30 +0000 Matt http://mattdyson.co.uk/?p=172 My ancient old knackered laptop (recently upgraded with a brand new 1Gb stick of RAM) had been running Ubuntu for a number of years, and was getting to the point where a OS re-install was necessary. I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed with the university wireless not playing nicely – so decided to give Windows 7 a try (since I can get it nice and free!)

Install was a breeze, OS booted fine first time, all drivers found and installed by Windows Update – apart from one…

Seems I was stuck with the 640×480 VGA resolution driver, Intel doesn’t think their 8XXGM series drivers work well with 7. Never fear – a bit of Googling revealed this site: http://www.groundstate.net/855GMWin7.html, which contains instructions for tricking 7 into installing the old drivers! Result! Although Seb may have had a slight point on this weeks Tech 107 (episode 3) about Macs being easier due to them not needing separate driver install. Ah well.

So – I’m now officially off Linux and 100% Windows again. Lets see how long it lasts this time!

]]> http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/windows-7-on-a-inspiron-510m/feed/ 0 Tech 107 http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/tech-107/ http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/tech-107/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:12:00 +0000 Matt http://mattdyson.co.uk/?p=168 Over Christmas, myself and Seb Payne came up with an idea for a brand new student radio show – Tech 107. Essentially, we wanted to create a show where we could publicly discuss the latest technological developments of the week in a relaxed atmosphere, that would hopefully appeal to a few people!

The show goes out live on Purple Radio every Tuesday at 1pm, with a podcast available on our website (when Seb gets round to posting it!). You can listen now to episodes #1 and #2.

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