Posts Tagged ‘Windows’

Firefox Has Determined…

May 3, 2010Matt No Comments »

I took this screenshot a while ago and totally forgot about it. I thought it was amusing then and I found it amusing a couple minutes ago when I came across it again on my hard drive.
Firefox has determined that the following add-ons are known to cause security or stability problems:

Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.1
Windows [...]

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Hijacked DNS Servers - Pointing to Ukraine

April 22, 2010Matt No Comments »

My parents have been having an issue with the internet at their place for a while now. I’ve just had a chance to look at it and it is quite suspicious.
Randomly when a Google search was performed, when you clicked the links you would be redirected to sites that you were not expecting, primarily parked [...]

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VMWare Fusion “Failed to Lock the File”

January 25, 2010Matt 2 Comments »

I had a VMWare Fusion crash today with a Windows virtual machine running. When I tried to bring it back up though I got a “Failed to Lock the File” error. Restarting VMWare didn’t fix it, rebooting didn’t fix it. After a quick search I found an article on a similar issue with the Windows [...]

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Switching Video Cards on Your Macbook Pro

January 18, 2010Matt No Comments »

If you have a unibody Macbook Pro in the 15″ or 17″ models, then you probably have two video cards. In the case of my Macbook Pro, I have an nVidia 9400m and an nVidia 9600m GT. By default the 9400m is enabled. For the most part this is perfectly fine for my usage, but [...]

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Activity Monitor System Memory Meanings

January 12, 2010Matt No Comments »

Ever wondered what all the different memory types are that are shown in the pie chart at the bottom of the system memory tab in your Mac OS X Activity Monitor? If you’re used to the memory usage information that Windows shows, then the OS X descriptions might be a bit confusing. The reason for [...]

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Macro Photography and Focus Stacking

January 9, 2010Matt No Comments »

As I mentioned back on the 1st of January, I would like to focus on my photography some more this year. As part of that I bought myself a Canon EOS 500D DSLR camera.
Over the past couple of weeks since I got the camera I have been reading a number of articles on photography and [...]

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Changing the SMTP Server Port in SBS 2008

December 9, 2009Matt No Comments »

I have recently upgraded the server at Goodtime, and in doing so, migrated from Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, to the new 2008 version. In doing so, I planned to change how the Exchange server was setup.
All email is downloaded to Outlook from a POP3 account on the web server, it is then synced with [...]

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Is Mac Really Better than Windows?

December 3, 2009Matt 2 Comments »

I was just reading a post over at the Global Thoughtz Technology blog about Brian Croll, Apple’s OS X Marketing Vice President, commenting that Windows 7 uses antiquated technology. The post itself I think is valid, Brian Croll’s comments may be fair, they may not be, but either way Windows 7 is a huge improvement [...]

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Accessing & Converting Blindwrite Disk Images

January 9, 2009Matt 3 Comments »

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 on, [...]

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Shrink A Virtual Disk Size With VMWare Fusion

January 6, 2009Matt 8 Comments »

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. [...]

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