Windows 7 comes with NFS support.
Thats support for *nix network shares, no more need for a samba server when I only have one windows machine on the network! I just hope that its implemented securely!
That is all!
James
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Windows 7…..< drum roll />
Oct 9th
Well two days ago I took the plunge and installed Windows 7 on a spare hdd in my laptop. Its taken about two days to get everything up and running again, but not all that was Microsoft’s fault!
First impressions:
- Its a faster OS than Vista, and graphically is much nicer (cleaner lines, bolder colours).
- New start up logo is nice! (swirling coloured balls becoming the Windows Logo).
- Nice basic wireless options (click, enter password, done).
- Not sure about the “librays” feature.
- New features on the startbar (more later).
Unfortunately I made the mistake of installing Comodo AntiVirus initially, and yesterday Comodo broke everyone’s PCs with a duff update. Needless to say Win7 didn’t like being messed with. But it did show that the system restore functions don’t work to badly.
I have a few annoyances about it, but otherwise it is a great improvement on the previous Vista debacle.
Robots and tortoises
Oct 6th
This morning I ventured to the University of the West of England (UWE) Robotics lab to pick up a very old robot! The robot was one called the Tortoise built in the 1940′s by a genius named Dr Greywalter, a man called Bunny and by grandad Dr Arthur Winter.
The Tortoise is a basic robot, supposed to simulate a basic organism with a duel celled nervous system. It reacts to light, steering towards it via the controls of a photovoltaic cell (in this case a 60 year old photovoltaic valve, not a small light sensor like modern equipment!). If it detects a object in its path (via touch) it will do its best to stear away and re-acquire the light source later. Grey also managed to give the robots the ability to determine when their batteries were low, and to return to their hutches to recharge. The “hutch response” was believed to not really have existed by the UWE Professors as they were unable to replicate it. However I can safely say it truly did exist, as my mum remembers watching the Tortoise’s perform it on the living room carpet when she was a child!! The robots have been borrowed by my mum’s work for a conference this week.
Some pictures can be found in the Photo Album section of my website.
James
Clotted Cream For Breakfast!
Oct 1st
Yesterday was 6 of my fellow IT department monkeys birthdays. As tradition dictates cake and other such goodies must be brought in. Yesterday was an impressive spread of cakes and cookies, today I was amazed to find a large spread of pastries and scones. To top it off there was posh Scottish jam and Cornish clotted cream.
Needless to say I had a lovely breakfast of scones and cream!!
Signing off
J
