Windows Loopback
Why does windows have a crummy loopback interface?
Once again, thank you Mac OS X for being there for me.
Edit: oh yea, 802.11 support isn’t to good either. Not sure whose fault that is. Took me a few minutes to figure that out.
Posts Tagged ‘windows’
Vista Requirements
According to this article about Windows Vista Requirements:
Other requirements included a SATA or 7200 rpm EIDE hard drive. For Vista on notebooks, Microsoft recommended the Acer Ferrari 3400, the Acer Ferrari 4000, the HP Pavillion zd8230, the IBM Thinkpad T43 and the Toshiba Tecra M4.
emphasis mine
Sweet! If IBM/Lenovo will adjust their BIOS so there’s [...]
Patch for WMF Exploit is out
It’s officially been released. Anyone running Windows should run Windows Update, or download the patch now. CNet has more info on the topic.
Do not wait. Install, and reboot.
Windows 2000 collectively crashes
From CNN 6:11 PM EST:
— A worm shut down computers running Windows 2000 software across the United States.
A preliminary article is here. Read this for starters:
A computer worm shut down computer systems running the Windows 2000 operating system across the United States on Tuesday, hitting computers at CNN, ABC and The New York [...]
Apple’s Intel Strategy
Apple announced it’s moving from the PowerPC processor over to the Intel platform. Most feel this is a good decision, some have reservations. Regardless Apple left quite a few unanswered questions that really impact how successful this transition will be, and what the ultimate benefit (if any) there is to the end user. [...]
Windows Firewall stinks
It took me about 45 minutes, and 2 phone calls to figure out that Windows Firewall apparently suffered some corruption, blocking me from FTP to this server. Not all FTP servers (for some reason that’s beyond me). All clients failed. First I thought it was the server. Then I thought it [...]
Microsoft Changes their Mind: Continues patches for non-XP IE
Contradicting a few days ago, according to The Channel Insider, Microsoft will be releasing some IE patches for non-XP systems.
…But company officials privately told a select group of developers earlier this year of plans to port some of the IE-specific fixes to the version of IE 6 for Windows 2000 (Service Pack 5 update).
It also [...]
Using Stuffit on Jar Files
For those who prefer Aladdin Stuffit on Windows, here some tips:
The following registry key will associate .jar files to that you can expand them with ease. A nice trick to have.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar]
“PerceivedType”=”compressed”
@=”StuffIt.Zip.Archive.View”
“CONTENT TYPE”=”application/x-stuffit”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar\CompressedFolder
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar\CompressedFolder\ShellNew]
“Data”=hex:50,4b,05,06,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar\OpenWithProgids]
“CompressedFolder”=”"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar\PersistentHandler]
@=”{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}
Provided at your own risk.
Save the contents into a text file with the extension .reg. Then open it.
You [...]
2 computer problems in 1 day
2 out of 4 computers had problems today. Yea! Home computing is fun!!!
One was a relatively quick fix. Simple disk scan ended up fixing the permissions error, or whatever was wrong with it. The other (Bender, the file server), wasn’t so easy. Something ravished permissions on the System [...]
Reimaging my HD
Going for my 3rd Windows install of the month. A few weeks ago, I got my system up and running, so I could use it as needed for finals. Now that finals are over, and I can relax. I’m going to do it the right way, and take my time.
Let [...]
