I’ve just ordered a new motherboard (with USB3), 9500GT graphics card and 2x4Gb RAM as they’re the most obvious choices for whatever is wrong with my PC, add to that the new 620W PSU I’ve already bought.

If that doesn’t fix it, then I’ll have to order a new CPU and maybe SSD, but I can’t really see them being the culprits, and they’re the expensive bits.

I was thinking of a whole new PC, but that would be over £500 and wouldn’t be much better than my current one (albeit hopefully stable!)

I went into town today and bought a 70e Antec Neo Eco 620C 620W power supply for my PC. Not too shabby considering a 600W Corsair is about that online with tax and postage.

So far it seems to be keeping it stable under fairly high load (including another build of CM7 n85+) for 4 hours, so hopefully that was the cause of the crashes. I noticed this new one has 48A on the 12V rail whereas my old 550W one had 20A or something stupidly low. The Corsair 800W brute they also had for 104e was 68A!

I made the mistake of trying the Yum Upgrade method of moving my rock-solid F13 install to F14 before they end-of-life’d it. Well that resulted in a machine that would constantly reboot at the “Loading operating system….” bit just before Grub. I couldn’t fix it no matter how many times I tried variations of “grub-install /dev/sda”.

So I decided I might as well bite the bullet and do a fresh install of Fedora 15. The first problem there was that my computer becomes very unreliable when I plug in the DVD drive (I really have to buy a new PSU) so I created a bootable USB installation using the UNetBootIn instructions. Well that took literally hours to write 3Gb to my flash drive on Ubuntu for some reason and then wouldn’t boot anyway, the fix was to type “/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img” at the boot: prompt.

What is it with commercial apps for Android that just don’t work?!

First off you’ve got Plex whose developers just say “its a Cyanogenmod7 problem, get them to fix it”, and now Nessus for Android logs in but doesn’t actually do anything – no scans or reports are displayed!

I also found that the version of iGo 8.4.2 for Android that I was using has what I can only assume is a broken skin, as the co-ordinate input method is just not there. Downloaded the unofficial MotoGIS 2.4 skin and it works a treat!

I noticed that I had Google Books and Google Shopper in my Android Market account as “installed” however I guess that was from when I was running Froyo with my UK SIM card, as it won’t let me re-install it on Gingerbread with my French SIM.

So I stuck my UK SIM in and lo, I saw Shopper listed in Market on the phone! So I installed it and it works fine. My UK SIM also seemed to enable “SIM Toolkit” which apparently adds some localised functionality (maybe 3G stuff too?) as it didn’t work with the French SIM back in it and it was gone upon reboot – well actually I installed CM7 N84 and wiped data, so no wonder it went!