http://www.aquarionics.com/category/windows en-gb Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Site Admin (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:26:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/08/21/Leaving_Windows_Open Leaving windows open always gets me into trouble, one way or the other. I overheat easily, and so I tend to leave the windows of my flat open wherever possible. This is good, but it does mean I occasionally suffer from bugs coming in overnight and biting me in the arse. Somehow – and for the first time in my life – I’m having problems with mosquito bites, after leaving a... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2007/03/24/Piracy “And this, this is just cheating.” “It’s a valid critical form, and it seemed to go down well.” “Pah. It got needlessly self-indulgent towards the end. The punctuation stuff? Far too self-referential. Avoid it in future.” “I should avoid talking about the form within the form?” “Indeed you should.” “Bit late,... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2006/03/01/MLP What if Microsoft redesigned the iPod packaging? And if you can tell me the name of the track that accompanies most of this, I’ll be your friend forever. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/07/02/Infested [11:36] {gilmae} how are we all today? [11:37] {Aq-Work} Not too bad [11:38] {Aq-Work} Currently I’m clearing the data off a W2k box so I can reinstall it [11:38] {gilmae} employed again, i see [11:38] {Aq-Work} Yeah [11:38] {Aq-Work} This job would be easier if the main drive wasn’t compressed [11:38] {Aq-Work} Actually, it’d be easier if the machine had been built after 1998... http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/Loopholes_in_Operating_Systems (Reposted here partially in response to Aquarius on the subject) “Martin Underwood” wrote: “Johnny” wrote: “Conor” wrote: It means your PC won’t become a trojan infested pile of stinking crap That sounds like Windows to me, ever increasing in size too. I’ve always wondered: do Linux and MacOS have any security loopholes? Is part... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/04/22/Schizophrenia pick an operating system http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/03/21/Magic_Blue_Smoke_and_Mirrors Okay, so I melted a floppy drive. Could happen to anyone. Who hasn’t done it? I mean, there they are, solid plastic, sitting in your computer case. Obviously at some point it’s going to melt. It’s just going to. So this is what happened, This is why I hate technology and am going to forthwidth go live in a bunker. No. A monestary. Get me to a monestary, because if this is... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/03/17/XP_hotfixes_since_SP1 Since it’s taken me all morning to find it, and other people may find it useful: A list of all XP Security Patches since Service Pack 1 This avoids the Catch-22 of having to put an unpatched Windows box onto the internet in order to get all the security patches to make it safe to put on the Internet. Be aware, however, that XP Service Pack 2 is on it’s way and that’ll... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/03/04/Infected I just avoided getting infected by Beagle by my virus checker. I got this e-mail: Dear user of Tmbg.org, Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service. For details see the attached file. In order to read the attach you have to use the following password:... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/02/15/Pendrive_Good Yesterday something bad happened. Yes, it was Valentines, not traditionally a day my mood is good (Especially with the whole “togetherness” aspect of local programming that’s particulally annoying at the moment). Yesterday, though, the hard-drive of my desktop decided that since nobody had sent it a Valentines card, today was a good day to die. Click. Boom. XP decided it... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/01/06/Reasons_IE_Sucks_chipmonks_though_chainlink_fencing%2C_Number_11_in_a_series_of_infinity Given this URL: http://www.aquarionics.com/gallery/Gid_[and]_Suzi’s_New_Year_2003 IE does the following: http://www.aquarionics.com/gallery/Gid_%5Band%5D_Suzi/’s_New_Year_2003 Now, I realise the escaping error in the generated URL was my own stupid fault, but the fact that IE automatically reverses any backslashes in a URL - to retain compatibility with Windows’ broken... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/12/15/Networks_are_weird A query for the networking geeks in the audience… Box A runs Windows XP, it’s an Athlon 2000XP. Box B runs Debian Sarge, It’s an Athlon 1200XP. Box C runs Debian Stable, It’s a Celeron 300mhz. Downloading a file from a HTTP server with Box A takes $time Downloading the same file with Box B or C (Or similerly sized files from the same server, so no caching)... http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/Unattended_XP_Install Today, I learnt something. I learnt that once you’ve installed Windows XP, you can do it again without any hassle at all. In fact, you can insert the CD and a floppy, and come back in an hour to a working system. This is the wonders of the unattended boot system, and something that a number of Linux distros could learn from. Basically it works not unlike the linux kernel stuff (And, in... http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/Refreshing_background_images_in_Windows All I wanted was a background, in Windows, that updated every 10 minutes. Does that seem too much to ask? Apparently it was, and this is how I had to do it without resorting to external software. Ready? I have a server that generates an xplanet image every 20 minutes. It used to be my background image when I was in Linux, because linux makes that kind of thing easy. In windows up until XP,... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/05/31/Office_XML_to_be_real_XML_after_all In which Aquarion confirms that Microsoft are not backing down on Office 2003 supporting XML http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/Quoth Oh crikey. Quoth. People appear to be looking for it, so I've put this page together so the links are working again. Okay, Quoth is (was?) a random sig generator for Windows written in VB6 as an exercise. Exercise in what, I was never quite sure. Futility, probably. Anyway, I stopped developing it when I stopped a) using it and b) using VB... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2000/05/06/I%27m_Dithering.%0AHaving_planned_to_go_yesterday_for_three_weeks%2C... I'm Dithering. Having planned to go yesterday for three weeks, I started packing this morning, at about 2am. It's now quarter past twelve, I've missed the train I intended to catch, and I'm aimlessly wandering, hoping I haven't forgotten anything vitally important. Like clothes, for example. Three weeks back at Uni. Fun. Three weeks of exams and panic. Fun Squared. Although my Dad has lent me...