Tag Archives: windows
Create Arbitrary Sized Sparse Files under Windows and Linux
Apparently there is something to be said about short blog posts. Allegedly I tend to get long winded sometimes and my posts can run a tad verbose sometimes. I usually tell people to STFU and go read Steve Yegge if … Continue reading
OpenDNS and NetBios Adresses
Recently I plopped an old laptop running a stripped down version of Ubuntu onto my home network. I joined it to the local workgroup and gave it a NetBIOS name so I could ssh into it from the windows machines … Continue reading
VBA Purgatory: The God Damned Scroll Wheel
This is hopefully the last post from my VBA Purgatory cycle. This time around it is a rant about one of the more infuriating little bugs in MS office namely the lack of scroll wheel support in the built in … Continue reading
VBA Hacks and Trickery Grab Bag
Hi, I’m here to torture you with more VBA! Run away! Run away! This is part two of the tales from the Programmer’s Purgatory. And once again, no it is not hell. When you are in Programmer’s Hell you spend … Continue reading
Loading Startup Applications… Please Wait…
This is going to be a quick rant about usability. Recently I noticed that a lot of Windows XP and Vista users get very frustrated with their machine at boot time. This frustration stems from the fact that while their … Continue reading
Send a HTTPS POST request with C#
The other day I wrote about my little Drag and Drop application and mentioned I wanted it to send HTTPS POST requests to an existing PHP web application. I thought it would be a relatively trivial task, but it turned … Continue reading
No More Excuses for Booting into Windows Partiton
I said it before, and I’ll say it again – Linux is not for everyone. Convincing people to switch their primary OS is a little bit like trying to convince someone to change their religion, or political views. It’s possible, … Continue reading
Drag and Drop Outlook Emails onto .NET Application
I do talk a lot of trash about Microsoft on this blog, but since I work in a place which is a Windows shop I can’t really get away from it’s products. Today I dusted off my “C# Developer” hat, … Continue reading
Using CPAN version of WWW::Mechanize with ActiveState Perl on Windows
I end up doing this each time I reinstall windows, and every time I forget how I did it, so I figured I’ll archive the process here. Perhaps it will help some of you. And I know, someone will say … Continue reading
Blinking Dash: The Video
I still have no solution to this problem. Will Sheldon had some useful suggestions for me yesterday, but messing around with boot.ini did not do anything. The /sos option did not display anything. I also tried stuff like /safeboot, /safeboot:minimal, … Continue reading
Blinking Dash: The Sequel
Remember that one time (at band camp) that my computer wouldn’t fucking start, because it was busing blinking a little tiny dash in the upper left corner of the screen? That was the end of December (just before Christmas). You … Continue reading
Installing LaTex on Windows
The other day I finally got around to installing LaTex on my Windows box after the last major reinstall. There are several different LaTex releases that will run on Windows. They all do pretty much the same thing, but now … Continue reading
Long Path Madness
Most people never run into the MAX_PATH issue when using windows. I run into it every other week. Windows has thins funky little quirk about long file paths. The fully qualified path of any file on your NTFS file system … Continue reading
What software do you install on a new machine?
I have touched upon this in the other thread but I figured that I can do better. So here is a more comprehensive list of applications that end up every new machine or after a clean install of windows. This … Continue reading
Blnking Dash Problem: The Non-Solution
I figured I should probably post my solution to the blinking dash problem. As you may know, few days ago I rebooted my machine only to be greeted a blank screen and a blinking dash in the upper left corner … Continue reading
Infinite Loop BSOD (nv4_disp)
I love easily solvable problems. I call them instant hero issues – you can solve them in 5 minutes flat, and you instantly become a hero. I wish my problem that I was struggling with for the last two days … Continue reading
Blinking Dash Update And The Wisdom of Yahoo Answers
I did some more tinkering with my blinking dash issue and I found out the following things: FIXMBR + FIXBOOT did nothing. Fortunately it didn’t seem to hose my partition table so that’s good Booting from the WinXP SP2 CD … Continue reading
Dreaded Blinking Dash
Oh boy… My home PC did a number on me once again. I’m currently confined to the laptop propped up on the nightstand next to my bed. Yeah, I can’t even sit at my desk, because I have a CRT … Continue reading
Anti Virus Apps and Performance
Please excuse me while I go on yet another pointless rant. But let’s start from the beggining. My brother was complaining that his rig was getting slow, so I decided to check out his machine. Turns out he was running … Continue reading
Installing AUCTex with EmacsW32
Here is part two of my quest to make Emacs my default LaTex IDE on both windows and Linux. Installation and configuration of Emacs and the LaTex add-on AUCTex on Ubuntu was surprisingly easy and uneventful. On windows however I … Continue reading
Windows XP SP2 Hibernation Issues
Personally, I believe that hibernation is for bears – I keep my machines on 24-7 and I like it this way. But some people do like to hibernate their laptops. From my email: I’ve been having another problem with my … Continue reading
Netgear WG111 Disables Fast User Switching (aka the RtlGina2.dll issue)
One of my users dropped off a WinXP desktop on my desk today, telling me that all his user accounts are gone and, the welcome screen is missing. Bit perplexed I hooked it up to a nearby monitor half expecting … Continue reading
Windows: Change Your Default Telnet Handler
At this point I see basically two legitimate uses for telnet: mud’s and nethack. While both forms of entertainment are still popular, they are far from mainstream even in the geekier circles. They have mostly niche audiences, and general public … Continue reading
3 Reasons to Hold Off on Vista for Now
I found these graphs on Piotr Olton’s blog and decided they were too good not to share. Btw, the blog is in Polish, but graphs are not. For those of you who are to lazy to click, I’m going to … Continue reading
Download Website for Offline Reading with Wget
My boss had a tad unusual request the other day. Like me he is also living a double life of working at this company by day, and teaching at a university by night. It turns out that for some reason … Continue reading