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Sunday, June 06, 2004
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Saturday, June 05, 2004
Sony Vaio
I got a new laptop from the office today - a Sony Vaio V505, with 512 megs of RAM and 2.66 GHz P4. It's also got a DVD_CD/RW drive which should make Sholay-watching an even more regular affair - my wife is going to kill me ! Right now, i'm just reinstalling all my required software - i just wish someone would come up with an easy way to copy installed programs when you switch laptops, cos it's a right royal pain in my butt right now !
Oh,by the way, one great little utility which I think everyone should have is Anydvd. It kills the region protection on DVDROM drives - even those which are RPC-2 locked. For those who don't speak geek, that means that there is a hardware/firmware lock which prevents the drive from playing other-region DVD's. Anyway, Anydvd takes care of it all - you'll never know that it's there, but your DVD's will magically manifest themselves on the screen ! I'm watching my Region 2 Sherlock Holmes DVD's - works like a charm !
On the topic of Holmes, I'd like to put on record that the Granada series with Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson is,IMHO, the definitive film/television version out of the clutch of efforts to commit the great detective to visual media. Jeremy Brett puts in a masterful performance as the brilliant but definitely neurotic detective.
Oh,by the way, one great little utility which I think everyone should have is Anydvd. It kills the region protection on DVDROM drives - even those which are RPC-2 locked. For those who don't speak geek, that means that there is a hardware/firmware lock which prevents the drive from playing other-region DVD's. Anyway, Anydvd takes care of it all - you'll never know that it's there, but your DVD's will magically manifest themselves on the screen ! I'm watching my Region 2 Sherlock Holmes DVD's - works like a charm !
On the topic of Holmes, I'd like to put on record that the Granada series with Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson is,IMHO, the definitive film/television version out of the clutch of efforts to commit the great detective to visual media. Jeremy Brett puts in a masterful performance as the brilliant but definitely neurotic detective.
