Well I tested the Creative software update. Installed the drivers. Installed all the applications from the CD (couldn't be bothered to deselect the DVD-audio, it isn't something I use anyway) and got the update installed. It works great. I once again have full surround from my PC, oh centre speaker, how I have missed you. The crappy remote application is working as well, but now I have seen how poor it is, I think I will disable it anyway and condemn the remote to the drawer. Thanks to Cat over on the Soundblaster forums for taking my abuse for the past couple of weeks, you promised November and you delivered 100%

Now Logitech, where are the webcam drivers? The last device on my system that needs a driver and its being held up by a company that is dedicated to provided x64 drivers. Heres a interesting tidbit, your mice and keyboards (although lovely) really don't need drivers. The unknown USB peripheral in my Device Manager does!

There now doesn't seem to be...

If I keep this up I will almost be doing a daily updates. Two on the trot. I am getting very excited about going to CES in January, looking at getting business cards and T-shirts, but as usual I am sure it will fall flat.

I don't know what the hell I did last night, can't remember a damn thing, not drunk or anything. I sat there for a bit waiting for NVIDIA drivers and that about all I can remember.

That new 7800 GTX 512meg looks ****ing amazing, quite depressing that my until-this-month top of the range cards have been pounded. Not only is this new 512 meg one only a little more expensive, its cooler and quieter! I am going to stand my ground though and not make a single move until the Geforce 8 comes along, after I lose my plea to NVIDIA not to call their next graphics card Geforce.

Daemon Tools 4.0 was released and fell back on it's promise to support 64bit, a later version will support it apparently, ho hum. Tonight I will be mostly installing...

I generally ****ing hate mondays and this one is no exception. Woke up this morning feeling like **** and after a cocktail of redbull, coffee, pepsi and lucozade I still feel horrible. An interesting weekend though.

My car was and still remains screwed and is currently sat in the garage. The rear brake cylinder got fried and decided to fuse itself to the drum, I am very much not car-savvy so that could well have made sense to both people who know about cars and those who don't. Either way its going to hae cost meo over a total of £200 to get sorted, really nice as I just spent £70 getting the front brakes sorted.

Firstly I got an e-mail from Jed at Microsoft on Saturday morning and I have been invited to CES2006 in early January which is awesome. Had I been flying out this year the amount of holiday or leave I would have had left might have put me in a tough position. Now I will actually get 3 days off without having to travel over to the other side of the world!...

This is my first real blog, although I have been writing about WindowsXP x64 edition over on Ryan's site: http://www.extended64.com/Blogs/electronic_punk/

I got a little upset over there as I have my own news page, www.osnn.net, and I had a blog which was something a little different where you wrote down your personal experiences, thats what a blog is right? But people are using it to post news - cut and pasting, it was annoying, but not why I stopped blogging there of course, I no longer use Windows x64.

I think I will steal those posts back and backdate them, just so I have a little content here with my experience from Windows x64 which I have left behind again now for three reasons:

- I need drivers for the Creative X-Fi which are listed as being out at some time during Q4 2005, although some believe they may have been delayed.
- I need the uGuru utilities for x64, not really but it would be nice, basically controls a panel I have on the...

Been a while since I blogged, but I have been keeping myself very busy of course and my Tauren Hunter is now almost level 60 in World of Warcraft. While not gaming, I have also been to Seattle and back, staying only to play with Vista and to drink some Corona.

I got Vista installed in my now "old" system, old only because my newer system is well, newer. Iguana is a 3400+ Athlon64 on an MSI K8T Neo FIS2R and a gig of Crucial ram all packaged nicely in a Lian-Li PC65 case, I have installed the 32bit version of Windows Vista Beta 1 on it. Why would I do that after tasting the sweetness that is 64bit? Purely to follow the trend, alot of the initial drivers will be 32bit only, obviously and I really want to provide the feedback that Microsoft deserve for flying me out there and buying me a steak dinner, oh and getting to touch an Xbox 360. Woo, but I already wrote about that here:

http://www.osnn.net/comments.php?shownews=12217

I am continuing to play...