January 19th, 2009 My sister needed to install some medical courseware and it only runs under Windows so I took it as a chance to check out the recently released Windows 7 Beta. I had problems accessing the official site but after some searching here and there, I was finally able to procure a copy. I installed the [...]
January 12th, 2009 RegEdit and Task Manager are two useful Windows tools for managing your computer. RegEdit allows you to edit the Windows registry, a global configuration setting repository. Task Manager, on the other hand, allows you to start and stop applications and processes among others. What’s one use for these tools? Malware cleanup. Typically viruses, worms, and [...]
January 11th, 2009 One big cause for your computer getting infected by viruses, worms, and other malware would be Window’s autorun “feature”. Plug in a hard disk, optical disk, memory card, etc and autorun launches and runs a program. Guess what that program usually is? Yup, malware. So one of the easiest ways to protect your computer is [...]
August 12th, 2008 There are many reasons to love Linux. But there are also many reasons to hate it. And this is one of those reasons. I’ve been trying to refresh Selene, my Thinkpad X22, since I returned my office-issue Thinkpad T60. I figured Linux would be a good idea as it had Kubuntu before and I was [...]
June 25th, 2008 I encountered a vexing problem right about the time I got my Nokia 5310. My Thinkpad T60 won’t write to the phone when connected as a storage device. I thought it was a phone problem and I asked Nokia Support for help but as expected, they weren’t really able to help. Meanwhile, I was stuck [...]
April 21st, 2008 I get to the office expecting to see the output of a program we left running on my laptop through the weekend only to find out that that Windows Automatic (but stupid) Update has initiated a reboot. Argh!
October 31st, 2007 We were wrestling with a weird problem in Windows the whole day. We were trying to transfer access rights to files from one user to another but we keep ending up with some directories that still can’t be accessed by the new user. We were stumped for quite some time before we found out that [...]