Google can go F* themselves with their “GoogleUpdate.exe”

05/09/2008 9:27 | Internet, Windows, rant | 17 replies | 3717 views | RSS

Recently I installed Chrome (just like all the other nerds on teh interweb), played around with it a bit, but there is no click like there was with FF.

 

Nvidia broke my RDP!

25/08/2008 22:31 | Windows | 3 replies | 2494 views | RSS

After upgrading my Forceware Geforce drivers, I couldn’t connect to my machine via Remote Desktop.

 

Install SimpleSky on iPhone 2.0.x

20/08/2008 21:55 | iPhone | 1901 views | RSS

Manually install SimpleSky theme for Winterboard on iPhone 2.0.x

 

Desktop color depth when using RDP on Windows XP SP3

28/05/2008 9:39 | Windows | 2308 views | RSS

I recently installed SP3 (duh) and whatever I tried I couldn’t get more than 256 colours when connecting via Remote Desktop. No matter what configuration in the RDP client (256 or 15/16/24/32bit) all the icons on the remote desktop were ugly as hell. Here’s the fix.

 

Wordpress 2.5!

30/03/2008 21:27 | Site | 1 reply | 1540 views | RSS

Ha, I can’t believe it, my Simplifisticate2 theme works like a charm in Wordpress 2.5! Hurray!

 

Mstsc /console on Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008?

28/02/2008 11:35 | Windows | 1 reply | 4403 views | RSS

Why can’t I connect to the console of my brand spanking new Vista SP1 or Server 2008 rig?

 

Check Windows installation date

07/01/2008 11:40 | Windows | 5 replies | 10560 views | RSS

Have you ever wanted to know when you installed your Windows? You can use Lavalys Everest to check that date, but Windows includes all the necessary tools to extract that date!

 

Batch change “share” permissions on Windows Shares.

24/12/2007 22:54 | Windows | 2110 views | RSS

If you have plenty of shares in 1 direcory, but the permissions on the share level are all set to “everyone read”, and you want everyone to have “full” rights, you have 2 options: One involves clicking a lot, the other option involves reading on.

 

Classic logon dialog for Windows XP

07/09/2007 11:12 | Windows | 3015 views | RSS

If you don’t like the Luna XP style (who does anyway) and you want to have a Windows 2000 style logon dialog (so without the welcome screen, and without fast user switching), then copy the following in a hurray.reg file and doubleclick it :)

 

Whoops! Comments on Gallery disabled

15/06/2007 13:24 | Site | 2571 views | RSS

Uh oh. I don’t know what I was thinking, but anonymous commenting on my Gallery was enabled. That or I’m hacked :)