Posts (page 5)
June 2016 (continued)
May 2016
- The bug that bites me
I briefly mentioned [https://blog.yuo.be/2016/01/01/a-change-of-web-host/] that, at the end of last year, I moved my website to Amazon's Elastic Compute…
- Columns UI can now be compiled using Clang
After a fair bit of work, release builds of Columns UI can now be compiled with Clang[1] (and the builds produced seem to work 🙌). Clang attempts to be…
- Python 3.5: Getting to grips with type hints
If you've written Python code using an IDE, you might have found that the IDE does a reasonable job at inferring types of function arguments and return values.…
March 2016
- Windows 10: The bugs that irk me
There are a few small bugs in Windows 10 that, despite being small bugs, manage to irritate the hell out of me. 1. Desktop icon positions reset themselves…
January 2016
- If you delete the WINDIR environment variable, it's (almost) game over
I came across an interesting problem recently. I was editing some environment variables on a Windows 10 PC, using some third-party software. After doing that, a…
- The death of Google Cloud Print on my MX895 printer: a story of ineptitude
I bought a Canon PIXMA MX895 all-in-one printer in May 2012. In fact, I was one of the first owners of the printer in the UK, having pre-ordered it the…
- Migrating a Windows 10 installation from MBR to GPT/UEFI
I recently updated to Windows 10 on a Z170-based motherboard, but my Windows installation was an MBR-based one rather than a modern UEFI one. I wanted to switch…
- Today I learned...
...in the properties for devices in the Sound control panel applet, you can right-click on the volume bars and change the units to decibels:
- A change of web host
I shifted yuo.be to Amazon Web Services. Here's a recent screenshot of the 'Time spent downloading a page' graph from the Googlebot crawler stats displayed…
December 2015
- The death of IMpeg2Data and the false start of IPSITables
In the Windows Vista-era, I wrote a DVB-T program. Apart from letting you view TV, it read and parsed DVB-SI. With the removal of Media Centre in Windows 10,…
- Windows 10: 'How do you want to open this file'? dialog box
It certainly feels like all the feedback I enter into the Windows Feedback app on Windows 10 ends up in free fall towards the floor of a bottomless abyss.…
July 2011
- Welcome to the club
It looks like iTunes can join the mega-GDI-resource-leak club: Congratulations (?)
April 2011
- Broken drivers
Lenovo finally posted an updated driver - version 267.21 - for the Nvidia NVS 3100M chipset in my ThinkPad T510. Unfortunately after installing it I was greeted…
March 2011
- Adobe Reader X 10.0.1: bugged
Hi Adobe, You might want to do a better job testing your software before releasing it. I was happily reading a PDF document when I wondered why the taskbar…
February 2011
- Some never learn
I downloaded the Dragon Age II PC demo, to find that mouse wheel support is broken - a familiar tale. (Specifically, support for freely rotating mouse wheels with non-120-multiple wheel rotation values). Ho-hum.
- Careful with SHAutoComplete
If you call it with a NULL HWND, it will return E_INVALIDARG but leak six GDI handles (seen under Windows 7 SP1). Yes, you can blame the caller, but 'tis just something to note.
July 2010
- Thoughts of the day
1. Surely a (laptop) recovery DVD that depends on the original storage drive partition layout to be (loosely) intact is a complete fail? I'm looking at …
June 2010
- Microsoft SAPI text-to-speech fun
It seems to fail at resampling. I tested on Windows 7 with the stock Microsoft Anna voice; you probably won't notice unless you use an alternative output…
May 2010
- Letter of rage
Dear Broadcom WIDCOMM Bluetooth Software 6.2.1.2100 installer, Thank you for deleting every file you had access to on my system volume. There's nothing like…