Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Monday, September 10th, 2007
n# » A strange way to dramatically speed up Windows XP
1. Right click my computer, select properties
2. Click the ‘Advanced’ tab
3. Under performance, click Settings
4. Click the ‘Advanced’ tab
5. Click ‘change’ under Virtual memory
6. Make a note of the existing swap files
7. Set the current swap file to a very ...
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Job Interview 2.0: Now With Riddles! - Worse Than Failure
During a screening interview, I was asked how I would design a bike fit for someone visually impaired. I responded something to the effect of, "What, like, for blind people?", and she answered yes.
I thought for a moment and then I ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales
Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista had proved 'overly optimistic' and he blamed the pirates in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.
He said his final solution would be to increase the intensity Windows Genuine Advantage as part of ...
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
The Shitbrickâ„¢
The Zune's a turd, buy an iPod.
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Daily Techno-Babble » 4 Reasons Why Windows Vista Is Just Not Worth It
As you all may have heard, Microsoft has released Windows Vista to manufacturing yesterday. A momentous event? Well that just depends on who you ask, and if the person is myself then you are going to get the ...
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
» Playing Google Videos In Windows Media Player » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel
Despite being an .avi file, a very standard video format, Windows Media Player can’t play it because Google has included in the file a bogus fourcc code in the file that WMP chokes on. ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Strange new worlds, and programming languages...: Good bye Microsoft; Pete has now left the building!
In 1991, I installed Windows 3 on my desktop PC at work. Work at the time was indentured servitude at a construction company in my home town where they massively underpaid a naïve but talented guy ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Dear Sir Bill Gates: invoice enclosed | The Register
Please find enclosed my invoice for £1,200 sterling for administrative and consulting work, caused by the need to repair Microsoft sabotage. I dare say you'd like details:
Last night, your organisation destroyed about three hours worth of work I'd done.
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
The Cult of Mac Blog
Some things are just too good to be true and too honest not to be. A MacDailyNews reader turned up this quirk of the Microsoft Security page, which showed a happy Powerbook user identified with the label "Click. You're Clean." They've done a great job proving ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
http - Google Search
Microsoft is bumped from the #1 result when searching for "http". For years microsoft.com has come up as the #1 search result for http. They were bumped recently bu w3c.org.
World Wide Web Consortium - 3 visits - 9:33pm
The interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client ...
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Windows Vista: Customer Preview Program
We invite you to be among the first to experience the clarity that Windows Vista can bring to your world. The Windows Vista Customer Preview Program makes a pre-release edition of Windows Vista Ultimate broadly available to the public for the first time.
Now I realize some ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
If I had the money, I'd pledge some .. but I spent it all on my Intel iMac. Har har har. The pot is up to over $4k, I'm thinking I should look into dual booting my machine.
Windows XP on a Mac
I am pledging $100 of my own money ...
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