Category Archives: PC
Love for E8400 CPUs and Intel vPro?
Last year, our Uni upgraded all PCs in the IT labs to ones with a Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU and 4GB RAM. A friend studying at the ANU said that his Uni upgraded all their PCs to E8400/4GB configurations, and noted the serious overkill with the CPU. This year, my Uni upgraded some PCs [...]
DDoS for n00bs
Okay, I admit I get a little annoyed when people talk like they know things (technically wise, in the field of IT), and that this is just another one of them. Seems like so many little script kiddies are throwing the word “DDoS” around, usually using it as a means to threaten webmasters or whatnot. [...]
Why is it so difficult to get complex ListView/TreeView controls?
I’ve seen many applications which make use of Windows ListView or TreeView controls which have far more functionality than those offered by the standard Windows API. Perhaps one of the most notable (or just one I have in my mind right now), is a hierarchical ListView, or perhaps, a multi-column TreeView (eg a combination of [...]
PHP and Backslash Hell
Backslashes were a fun way to escape certain characters in languages like C (I don’t know if earlier languages have been using the idea, not that I care anyway), for example “\”\\” represents a string containing a double-quote and a backslash character. Well, it would also make sense to use this for regular expressions (preg_*) [...]
Thunderbird losing downloaded mail
Okay, this is irritating. I just wanted to check some mail I’ve been expecting, but Thunderbird seems to have deleted all my stored emails for an account. So it seems that its solution is to download absolutely every mail in the inbox again – yes, that’s >1000 emails it’s trying to download over my slow-ass [...]
NTFS Junctions FTW
At work today, for some odd reason, I couldn’t write to my USB drive after noon, the computer spitting out access denied errors. Took out the drive and reinserted, with the same effect. I somewhat suspect the draconian IT dudes did something about my (maybe it affects others, I dunno) write access to removable storage [...]
Office 2010
Installed Office 2010 on all three of my computers yesterday (my main computer, parents’ computer and my netbook), after finding a way to activate Office without using the KMS service. Bit of a shame that our MSDNAA doesn’t have Office, though they do have Project, Visio and Access (and maybe some other Office apps). Initially [...]
F***ing Web Installers
Why the f*** do some companies/people love web installers? I mean, seriously, you download this 1MB installer, the only purpose of it being that it serves to download the real 21MB installer package. Why can’t they just link to the installer package directly and eliminate this stupid intermediary step of downloading and running a web [...]
Dual Monitor Displays
UPDATE: Ooh, actually, I’ve found something nice – dual monitors are pretty sweet for virtualisation! Run VirtualBox on the second screen, full screen. I’m not technically “advanced” in the sense that I have a lot of gadgets or whatnot. As such, I just have a single 19″ 4:3 LCD screen display (a bit annoying that [...]
OMG Slow Internet
Everyone knows Australian internet sucks, especially if you’re stuck on a Telstra RIM, like I am. But regardless, I’m paying for 512Kbps internet, so I kinda expect what I’m paying for. My current download speed is around 10KB/sec, about 5 times slower than it should be. Well, that’s not too bad, as I browse with [...]
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