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In my previous blog post I mentioned I would post some pictures taken during assembling my new PC. Here they are, hit the jump to see them. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of weeks ago I finally bought a new PC, and I love it
It’s a nice:

• Intel i7-2600k
• 16 GB Corsair Vengeance memory
• Intel 510 SSD (120GB)
• 2 x 2TB WD RE4 drives in mirroring RAID
• be quiet Dark Power Pro PSU (really quiet PSU)
• Antec Solo (a rather silent case, including some sound damping materials)
• triple monitors

I must say, it’s very very fast, especially thanks to the SSD. The 16GB RAM come in handy for running virtual machines
Once you’ve worked on a system with an SSD as system drive, you simply don’t want to go back to using mechanical drives as system drive…

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

Happy New Year

Sretna Nova Godina

Bonne Année

2010

Happy New Year
Sretna Nova Godina
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
        Happy New Year
                Sretna Nova Godina
                        Bonne Année

May your dreams come true in 2009

Due to some extended business trips and the fact that I will have my yearly holiday in August (finally ), my development on NuonSoft products has been temporarily suspended until September. In September or October, I hope to finalize the new build of Wallpaper Cycler.

During my trip to the Microsoft MVP Global Summit my blog was hacked and I had to take it offline because it was trying to infect users with a virus. It took my quite some time to restore everything

Personally I just cannot understand why people hack blogs or any other site for that matter Anyway, everything should be working again now…

I wish you all a Happy New Year and a good health for 2008

“Gelukkig Nieuwjaar”

“Sretna Nova Godina”

Just a small message to let you all know that I’m back from holiday and I just started processing the feedback from our beta testers. There is quite a lot of feedback so it will take some time to get through it all. I’ll keep you all up to date with this blog.

As some people already noticed our nuonsoft.net domain is down for around 2 weeks now. This .net domain is hosted by www.M6.net. 2 weeks ago, the harddisk in that server died and it is taking the webhosting company ages to replace a harddrive! I’ve send numerous emails and high-priority tickets without success. The latest reply I got was 4 days ago where they said they would contact one of the admins to be able to tell me a timeframe for the replacement. A timeframe for a harddrive replacement?? Why does it take more than 2 weeks to change a harddrive and why does it take more than 4 days just to give me a timeframe?!? After 4 days, I haven’t received any further replies, no timeframe, nothing… Also, this harddrive issue is not the first problem we had with the hosting. A while ago, they suddenly decided to change the drive letter (it’s Windows hosting) for the data drive meaning some of our scripts got broken. Of course, they didn’t bothered to tell customers that the drive letters would be changed or didn’t even send an email after they changed it. We just had to find out the hard way, by noticing that our scripts where failing…

This is simply unacceptable! Of course it’s pretty redundant to say that we will be moving our nuonsoft.net domain to another webhosting company.

On a side note, our nuonsoft.com domain is hosted by www.unitedhosting.co.uk and I’m very pleased with the level of support they provide. All tickets are handled promptly, often within minutes. That is what a webhosting company should be like.

I finally started a blog.  Through this blog I will try to keep you informed about my software development progress and about other interesting things.