Posts (page 7)
April 2009 (continued)
- 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…
December 2008
- It's usually quite interesting reading the Microsoft User Experience guidelines
...because they seem to like pointing out things that are actually wrong in Windows! Here is one I saw the other day: In this incorrect example, the use of…
- This is what happens when you stick to hibernate instead of shut down...
...and keep Visual Studio and Firefox permanently open: First entry is biggest WTF. It is a part of Visual Studio. What it is doing with 785MB committed memory…
- Yes, it will always be "explorer.exe".
One of the most annoying issues I have with applications when running under Vista 64-bit, is when applications (or rather their developers) decide that it will…
November 2008
- Nokia N85 WiFi - "No gateway reply" with Thomson routers (also E71, N79, 5800, ...)
If you have one of the recent Nokia phones (N85, E71, N79, 5800, ...) and a recent Thomson / SpeedTouch / BT Home Hub router you may face the "No gateway reply"…
- Verdict on replacement Seagate ST31500341AS
It will also be going back, for a refund this time. This one hasn't completely died like the other one, but it makes a click every time it powers up (the…
- How many bugs do window scrollbars (APIs) have with visual themes enabled?
A never ending amount, evidently. Amusingly they go away if you disable visual themes for the application.
- Retrieving data from the dead hard drive
The process I followed is relatively funny really: 1. Unplug hard drive SATA power lead & boot into Windows. Wait until it has finished loading. 2.…
- Computer woes continued
It seems my suspicions of the nVidia SATA controller driver being bugged were in fact…
October 2008
- General computer woes
This is what happens when I decide to upgrade some parts of my computer: 1. Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive It turns out the nForce 590 (AMD) SATA driver on…
- Why does the Control Panel mock me?
I just opened up the Control Panel on my Vista x64 machine and just felt very annoyed. Why? Because it looked like this: What's wrong here? 1. Half of the…
August 2008
- Unspecified brilliance
Windows Explorer surprised me today with a lovely new message whilst I was browsing a folder on my network: :o
May 2008
- Strange messages in Windows: Part N
I do like making a note of strange dialogs for some reason. Here is one I got trying to copy a file in Windows Explorer: So what does Internet Explorer have to…