Posts (page 6)
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…
March 2009
February 2009
- Why do people fail at handling WM_MOUSEWHEEL properly?
When handling this message, one of the values you receive is the value which expresses "the distanced the wheel is rotated" (or rather, was). I will call…
January 2009
- Wow
How much misguided crap can a company spew?
- Somone listened!
Probably not to me though. The 'Internet Explorer' Windows Explorer warning I complained about some posts below now looks like this in Vista SP2: Not only did…
- I give up. (More flash/hard drive woes)
I ended up sending back the Samsung SSD, and bought an Mtron MOBI 3500 instead. (After a bit more research I found out that the Samsung was somewhat better,…
- Buying things is difficult
After my problems with the 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11, I did some investigating and just kept finding other people with problems of increasing amounts of reallocated…