In this video I show you how to upgrade the ram on the Packard Bell BG45-U-300 it comes standard with 1GB of ram but that’s not enough for a happy (if there is such a thing) VISTA experience.

To make things easier I recommend having a philips (cross threaded) and a flat screw driver to hand.

Any questions just ask…

…and I need your help. If you are interested in becoming a contributor on bumpytrails and you are interested anything that is a gadget or tech related drop me an email and let me know if you want to get involved.

Ever need to get hold of an older version of Firefox? Look no futher than here:

http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.php

I have just launched the new Squire Law Library website the new website makes use of the existing Cambridge University look and feel but incorporates features from the newly launched Faculty of Law website.

www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk

Need a good place to go for wallpapers? Here’s one:

http://profesorul09.webs.com/apps/photos/

They come in all sizes from 1280×1024 to 1920×1080.

Ever wanted Firefox to blend in seamlessly with Vista or Windows 7’s aero theme? Now you can in the shape of the ‘All-Glass Firefox mod, based on Glasser’.

Firefox 3.5 users can download from here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/ga-IE/firefox/addon/12181

Firefox 3.1 users can use this previous version:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7336

If you couple this add on with ‘Personal Menu’ you can make firefox look really nice you can download personal menu from:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3895

1. Open the Terminal
2. Download the file from here using the wget command:
   http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
3. The name of the file is AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
4. Save the file in the Home folder (Places > Home Folder)
5. Run this command:
   chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
6. Now run this command:
   sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Come on Valve… sort it out! The Orange Box for like £5 is an absolute bargain. But who doesn’t have Half Life 2???

Will there be one? I’m still hoping that HAWX makes an appearance. Come on VALVE give us something better than Lara Croft!

Well, installing the BeBox last night was simple.  The main problem was that my home network was hard-coded to 192.168.0.x IPs, and the Be modem defaults to 192.168.1.x.  Once that was all fixed, the Be instructions were fine (although they could have described the internal menus of the Speedtouch a little better).  The line was already activated, and I immediately synced at around 18/1.5.

I couldn’t wait to get onto Speedtest, and the outcome was:

Not too shabby!  Nowhere near the theoretical 24mb maximum, but still three times the average I used to get.

I then swapped back in my Linksys WAG54GX2 as I suggested in my earlier post.  This didn’t actually make any changes to the speeds at all, but at least it meant I didn’t have to set everything up again.

The real effect came when I decided to hit a couple of big torrents this morning, to see how the extra bandwidth would affect day-to-day use:

Wowsers.  I just showed those to a colleague who’s on 2mb cable, and his response was unprintable!

Dan