Every time I think I have everything running on this computer one more little thing crops up. Minor little things that I missed on my big list of things that need to be installed. And when I find them I update the spreadsheet so that I will know next time. I would rather know now than if my PC gets stolen. That would not be good.

Anyway almost everything is up and running. I do not have MYOB putting a logo onto my invoices. I can remember having this problem in the past – but I cannot remember how I fixed it. I know it was doing something strange. Until then I do not have BPay or Credit card logo’s on my invoices. I will work this out in the next few days.

DNA

I just found something cool for the budding scientist everywhere… It is from the Discovery Shop, and is a DNA Kit. It actually does produce those sorts of plots that you see on CSI… I think it is a dumbed down version with some limits on what you can test for DNA, such as plants only or something like that. It is amazing where technology has gone.
Discovery DNA Explorer Kit

CDMA

The Register has an article about 3G telephones in Europe and how their performance is seeming to be worse than GSM. The problem is one I had never thought about but is logical. With CDMA as used by 3G in Europe, all the phones connected to a base station transmit to the base station at the same time. The problem is that for this to work they must all be heard by the base station with the same signal level.

This is like being at a party and getting everyone to yell at you at precisely the right level that you can hear each person distinctly. It is hard, but it can be done. Obviously it is a lot easier with fewer people in the room – and in that case people do not need to speak as loudly. The same happens with CDMA. The carriers try to minimize the power transmitted by the handsets to maximise battery life, but this has implications with the number of call dropouts.

Music:

Random Play music. And now thankfully I have a DVD backup of my entire music collection. It fits onto 6 DVD’s. That is not bad, but it means that I cannot buy myself a 20 GByte iPOD… I would need something a bit bigger. At least a 30 GByte unit, or more. Not that I am planning on getting an iPod any time soon, but it is on my list at some stage…