Friday, April 10, 2009

Return from the dead


Thats nice SpeedTest has had a makeover.

There was a major outage in East London with Be - some third party destroyed one of the tunnels.

We are back on line now but I am wondering if this result is indicative of a problem? Its the first test I've done since the outage.

Being spending a lot of time with a found computer. It is Dell branded and the very handy Belarc advisor tells me it has a Dell Motherboard.

My conundrum is do I put it through Windows Genuine Advantage?

It has hotfixes but there is no Windows Defender and Media Player is version 10. It does have IE7 - but seing as it was practically dead from malware overdoses it is hard to know what is really what.

Another concern is the COA - it doesn't quite do what the MS site says it should do.

Otherwise I am very proud of my repair job (entirely software based - it will need a new CD drive which I intend to attempt next week).