Back in April I was having a problem with my Thecus N4100 Pro where it was taking a long time to boot up, I’m talking around 8 hours or so. The confusing part was that on the display, it said it was ready, even though it hadn’t moved to displaying status information yet, and when [...]

VSO Software’s Blindread and Blindwrite are an excellent set of tools for creating backups of copy protected disks on the Windows operating system, especially when using the Blindwrite disk image formats – .bwt .b5t and .b6t. Most disk image mounting tools for Windows will read this format, such as Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120% and so [...]

I came up against a problem today whilst working on fixing a design to work correctly in both IE6 and IE7. That problem was, I am running IE6 in a Windows XP virtual machine in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro. Normally, I test IE7 on my Vista desktop and IE6 in the Virtual Machine. [...]