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Wow, in a few hours it will be 2009. So I thought I should do one more entry for 2008. Kinda got a new computer for Christmas. Mostly parts as it was an upgrade to my current computer. I got an Intel 9550 Duo Quad Core processor 2.8xghz, 8gb of corsair Donomator memory, an ASUS P5Q Deluxe mother board and an Evga 9800GT video card with 512mb ram. Who would of thunk that a video card would have more ram than the systems I used to build when I first got into computers. And I've seen video cards with 1gb of ram.

I put it all together and guess what, it works. The only problem is that it has a different chipset for raid and it didn't recognize the raid 5 setup I had on the old computer. If the board manufactures were smart they would come up with a standard raid format for the desktop boards so it was compatable between boards. It would make upgrading much easier but then again sometimes it's good to load from scratch. Which is a total pain in the butt. I've seen third party programs to transfer setting and that but never wanted to spend the money to see how well they work. Took me several days to load everything back up and get my tweaks back into windows and other programs. Had a few problems that slowed me down but not to bad.

I did change plans and left the raid drive with the board that I put in another case which was good because I didn't have a full backup of stuff, just the important stuff.

I purchased a VelociRaptor Drive from Western Digital 300GB. It's very fast and I saw a noticable difference when installing software. I decided to stick with one Drive and make full backups to a 500gb drive I purchased for $55. Will make upgrading a bit easier next time I hope. I also hope it makes the computer faster too. Right now my Vista Rating is 5.9 which is the highest you can go I think.

I am having one problem with Vista that is kind of strange. I had accidently turned off the "keep a list of recently run programs" or some thing to that effect so I turned it back on and the receint list still doesn't show any programs. Not a major thing but will have to figure it out. Things like that bug me.

Merry Christmas and a Happy and Profitable New Year,

They say money doesn't bring happiness, but I rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.

JefferyS

It seams making a Project Template is easier than I thought.

There is a very good article here that explains the process.

Seeing that, I started thinking that I could make several project templates for my Data Access web sites, or a template that has all the membership, roles, and profiles setup. Actually for that I could make several versions of web.config template with that stuff in it too.

When ever I create a site I am always adding a site map, master page, style sheet, Javascript libraries, and other things. That would make a great project template to have all that in there all ready for me to work with. You could also add all the different folders that you might use on a regular bassis. Script, Images, Styles, Themes, and other folders.

This is very exciting. I should have looked up how to do this long ago.

Anyway that's all I have for right now.

Take Care,

JefferyS