It’s Christmas at Accidental Entrepreneur

March 1, 2006 on 8:55 am | In Etc... |

What an amazing day it is today.

First my new Garmin eTrex GPS with Waterproof Exterior arrived so that I can start Geocaching on the weekend.

Then, I check the order status for my new Dell Laptop and the delivery date had been brought forward from the 7th of March to today!

Woo-hoo - big tech fest here today.

After a few minutes playing with the GPS and a bit more work, the Dell Laptop arrived. I dug straight in and got it set up immediately - It only took a few minutes to get it going. However, it took a while longer to get my necessary software installed.

It’s amazing how ‘necessary’ Firefox has become for me. I got frustrated really quickly with IE6. Anyone else noticed this?

The other software I needed to get set up so that I could get back to work is MS Visual Studio C# 2005 Express - a great piece of software for developing windows apps which is free to register until November 2006, and MS SQL Server 2005 Express - a fully functioning scaled down version of the MS SQL Server 2005 database engine.

The great thing is that I estimate that my new laptop is compiling my C# code about 40 times fast than the laptop I have been using.

So my old laptop - a Dell Inspiron that I aquired back in 2001 - will now probably be used mostly as a testing platform.

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