Public Service Announcement

Daylight Savings Time this year starts this Sunday morning, 3 weeks early than last year. If you use a Windows computer that does not automatically run Windows Update, you should run it before this weekend to ensure your computer is updated to support this change.

For more info, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836/

Learn something new every day

I had a rather embarrassing experience yesterday (at least, its embarrassing for a computer geek like me). I discovered quite by accident that for the last 6 months or so I have been running my dual core Athlon 64 x2 as a single core. Nice. 6 months of playing WoW and the Sims 2 at roughly half the speed they should have been running at. Really, really, nice...

When I upgraded my CPU/motherboard, I just used my existing hard drive and installed some new drivers. Turns out that if you upgrade from a single proc to a dual proc in WindowsXP, the OS does not detect the second CPU automatically. In fact, there is no way to update the OS to use the second proc without reinstalling the OS (apparently a very low level component is installed during the OS install that cannot be replaced without reinstalling the whole thing). So guess what I spent the day doing? No really, I bet you can guess.

Ah well. I have to get back to "pwning the n00bs" as R would say. At least now I can see them twice as often as before:)

P.S. For the record, I would NEVER say "pwning the n00bs". NEVER!