nVidia nvlddmkm Vista Driver Solution

Since installing my custom desktop last weekend, updating all the necassary drivers, my screen flickers with Windows Vista soon warning me :

"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

Looking in the Event log, this appears as a 'warning' and not a more serious red 'Error'. Funny, I would have thought the screen flickering, turning to black is fairly serious?

Anyhow, follow nVidia's advice to pause anti-virus, un-install any existing nVidia drivers, re-starting and installing their update http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.65.html seems to be the solution.

My System is now running just fine, and starting (although its a fresh install, already have doubts on a) start-up time; b) loading times and c) errors), I will be looking at alternatives to Windows, and will dual-boot Linux over the coming week.
Anyway, I'll enjoy my custom built system:

• Processor: Intel E6700 Dual Core
• Graphics: Asus 8800GTX
• Memory: XMS2 2Gb
• Hard drive: 2x Samsung T166 500Gb drives (RAID)
• Monitor: 22" Samsung SyncMaster 226BW

I'll reserve my judgement on rating all the elements, but it looks good so far!

Vista realse

With Vista released, and Microsoft working on the next verison, I will present my direction to Microsoft in the coming weeks - on an essential element they have missed this time around.

Sure, Vista looks great (if you've the graphic power) and has a better user experience than XP, but there is a fundimental flaw....watch this space.....

Ensuring Firefox grabs a Fresh page every time

With Internet Explorer you can easily set the Internet Options to grab a Fresh copy of a web page each time you visit. But in Firefox there has never been a simple option, until now with a simple tweak!

In fact Firefox (v2) is set to grab a fresh copy upon the 3rd refresh. This is a problem both for wanting/waiting for up-to-date information on a page or, which is my reason for finding this fix, when I'm designing a web page and need an updated preview in a browser. (not the version done half an hour ago).

But there is a real easy fix :

1. Open Firefox, type about:config in the address bar
   
2. Find the setting for browser.cache.check_doc_frequency
3. Right click, modify
4. Change the value to 1