1 Reply by aksaia

(6 replies, posted in Hardware)

I just recently took delivery of the XPS M1530 choosing to go for 4Meg version with Blu-ray drive. The drive failed at the very first disc. So, am I out for Dells Blood? Well No not at all. I did get a little worried when an Indian sounding gentleman asked me try try another disc. (after I had told him 5 times that the first disc was still inside). Arrangements were made for at home service the following day. The service tachnician phoned to confirm and turned up promptly as stated. The Blu-Ray drive was faulty. This way replaced without delay and the original drive dismantled to retrive my disc. The drive was then tested and all was well.
Having had Dell computers both company owned and my own this level of service was one of the deciding factors when choosing my laptop.
It is true you can pay a lot more than the brochure price (£1266 in my case) but this was with the additions and subtractions that I wanted not "We have this one Sir" that the most suppliers would offer.


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2 Reply by aksaia

(8 replies, posted in Other)

Drupal is a nightmare to use – and indeed, while it can be said it is very functional, it takes too many third party modules to make it work. This is a hindrance, not a feature. Try adding simple pictures. There are so many modules to handle this simple task that it fails to become simple anymore.

Joomla, is best suited for small to medium sized businesses and promotes better webmaster independence because it is colossally easier to use than Drupal, but a little harder than Wordpress.

I can’t beleive I’m seeing people put Wordpress second to Drupal and over Joomla – what? Wordpress is too simple.

If these were cars Drupal is the Ferrari (high performance yet high maintenance – better be a trained driver) Joomla is a caddy, smooth ride with expected performance – many templates available. Wordpress is like a Geo Metro. Super simple and economical, something EVERYBODY can drive or use.

I use and build with all three – Joomla is the winner – and when Joomla 1.6 comes out, it will leave Drupal in the dust. Depending, durpal’s out of the box features with blogs and forums may still beat Joomla, but not in the form of user groups anymore.
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3 Reply by aksaia

(10 replies, posted in Software)

nForce3 is supported natively in Vista x64 Beta 2 (build 5384.4).  So is the Radeon X850 XT PE (and it's recognized as such smile).  I suspect that most modern motherboards and devices will also have native Vista support when it goes final.

The hardest thing I see in creating DriverPacks for Vista is replacing the native drivers with up to date ones.

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