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.

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.

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.

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.