Category Archives: Windows

This cold of mine just WILL NOT quit…

It’s still hanging in there like a monkey on my back.  Speaking of colds… Vista is off to a cold start, security wise, isn’t it? Already a privilege escalation vulnerability letting local restricted users become local admins.  “UNBREAKABLE ORACLE VISTA!”

Down with HTML E-Mail!

Begin rant I’m with Jeremy on this one… Lets face it, e-mail is broken.  We have long since outgrown it, we have been living with the pains of ot for a long time now.  It’s everyones favorite internet whipping boy. “I hate spam” “I hate stupid forwards” “I hate huge attachments”.  We spend all our [...]

Fighting the good fight

Out comes my Knoppix 5 DVD, and into the machine I feed it. The local ntfs partition is mounted automagically. I mount my network samba share. Copy between the two… All my “stuff” which needs backing up before this machine can be memory wiped in a way that would make the creaters of the show [...]

I really loathe windows sometimes

So, click on the wrong thing on accident and *POOF* your windows XP machine goes totally wonky. Major haywire. SNAFU to say the least. even with spybot’s teatimer and antivirus SW installed and updated. hundreds of registry access requests, and hundreds of stupid little exe processes launch. even with denying everything as quick as possible [...]