New PC

[Rik]

Now, about the UPS you're going to need... 

[Philip]

STOP IT !!!!!!!! 

[Rik]

Then there's the copy of Windows Home Server... 

[Philip]

Then there's the copy of Windows Home Server... 

time to go, see you all later 

[Rik]

Have fun.

[Steve]

Then there's the copy of Windows Home Server... 

What a splendid idea for the old PC,after all the trial is free for 120 days.No more worrying about backups of the new PC or daughters laptop .Got to be worth a try

[Rik]

Definitely, Steve. That machine would need a UPS too, of course. 

[Sebby]

All the best, Philip.

[Rik]

Is that all, Seb? Can you not find something else for Philip to spend money on?? Where is your sense of tradition.

[Steve]

Having just looked again at the spec I see its only got 2Gb of memory.I think from my experience 2Gb is a bare minimum for Vista, a relatively cheap upgrade to 4Gb (only 3Gb usable) will provide you with a much more responsive OS and less hard drive activity.

[Simon]

Or, for an equally cheap option, put XP on it! 

[Steve]

Or, for an equally cheap option, put XP on it! 

The additional memory, if they've use 2x1Gb and 2 spare slots are available should only be about £30-£35.

[Ray]

What a splendid idea for the old PC,after all the trial is free for 120 days.No more worrying about backups of the new PC or daughters laptop .Got to be worth a try

well worth doing. 

[Rik]

Go on Ray, get Philip to spend the money.

[Ray]

Go on Ray, get Philip to spend the money.

The best £85 I've spent for a while, Rik, it's saved me once already when I had the faulty Memory modules, it just does what it says on the tin. 

[Steve]

Whilst we are talking money and new PC and WHS, my perfectdisk 2008 trial for the WHS finished today so I splashed out on a site licence and got a nice little discount using PD2008-MCT25 I presume it will work with any of their products?

[Rik]

That's it, guys, we're racking up Philip's bill nicely. 

[Dangerjunkie]

If you're not too far away I could come round and put Linux on the old machine and a copy of Samba. That will give you a file server for n'owt

Cheers,
Paul.

[Rik]

Go left a couple or three counties, Paul.

[Philip]

I'm back, now time to play 

[Rik]

New machine or old, Philip?

[Philip]

New, can't believe how quiet it is compared to the old one. Keyboard and mouse are rubbish so I'll be putting the old ones on soon

[Rik]

When's the Eizo arriving?

[Philip]

When's the Eizo arriving?

[Rik]

 

You can't blame me for trying. So... about converting the old machine to Windows Home Server.