Posts (page 5)
January 2010 (continued)
- Windows 7 NTFS worry...
Out of the blue, my Windows 7 install decided to run chkdsk on my system drive on startup (once). It didn't find any problems. A little bit more digging…
- People's failures at using COM
What does MSDN say about the ppvObject parameter in IUnknown::QueryInterface? > ppvObject [out] The address of a pointer variable that receives the interface…
December 2009
- Mr User Friendly returns
As does Mr Screen Shot... (If you're wondering, the problem was just that I had the destination file open in a certain application..)
November 2009
- UPEK Protector Suite strikes again
I thought (or perhaps naively hoped) UPEK had fixed all their issues. Alas, I was to be disappointed on a large scale as you can see below. I admit, it's not a…
September 2009
- Windows 7 RTM feedback...
I decided to go ahead and buy a TechNet subscription so I could "evaluate" Windows 7, and am now running Windows 7 RTM on both of my computers. One was…
August 2009
- Braindead logging
Thanks, Windows.
July 2009
- Blurry text disease strikes again
A little while ago I wrote about how the Windows 7 RC jump lists are affected by such a problem. I decided to install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and to my…
- PSU whine/squeal/buzz... (under graphics card load)
Just wtf is this about. It's horrible, and loud. Seemingly known as 'coil whine', but it's some combination of a whine, buzz and squeal. I had it when I had a…
June 2009
- Windows 7 RC: minor follow-up
I've discovered that right clicking on various parts of the taskbar/jumplist brings up some menus I find useful - so that's a great help. However, quite a few…
- Credit card fraud
Recently, my credit card was used fraudulently online. It seems to be part of a recent spate of fraudulent transactions relating to people who have shopped at…
May 2009
- Some Windows 7 RC impressions...
I gave in and upgraded Windows Vista SP2 on my laptop to Windows 7 RC. (Moreover, I plan to buy a new laptop around when RTM is released anyway, so I hopefully…
- Don't you love brilliantly written software?
No further comment. Well, except that that is UPEK Protector Suite 2009 5.9.1.5395. Maybe I will try the feedback form....
April 2009
- When in doubt, look closer to home
I saw a string of peculiar messages in the Windows Event Log on my laptop which at first sight looked quite alarming: > Windows (1608) Windows: A request to…
- Repeatedness
If A does something a handful of times, it is described as repeated, and yet when B does it several times as many as A it's not worth mentioning. Strange, isn't it?
- Kaspersky vs Visual Studio and the rest of my computer
I thought I would try Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, since someone else in this household uses a certain bank gives out free licences. I did face some…
- Nokia N85: The dodgy earpiece
I quite liked my N85. Then I read about how various recent Nokia phones made before Feb 2009 had a problem with a faulty earpiece part. Naturally, that followed…