I like to mess about with other OSes in my spare time and have recently downloaded the latest Ubuntu release. I’ve been a fan of Ubuntu since about v4, this time around they’ve changed the interface and I was a bit lost… I use VMware Server 2 at home on my Windows 7 “server” as… Read More »
I’ve learnt some fairly painful lessons today on my Mac, thought I’d share them.. (1) Snow Leopard discs are tied to the model of Mac they are sold with (2) wiping a Macs hard disc doesn’t necessarily remove all vestiges of the previously installed OS. (3) scratched cd and dvd discs are %##}{#%%!!! The key… Read More »
Today I was messing about with TVersity (trying to get streaming to iPods working), and got to a point where I deinstalled the software. This then caused an issue with the Windows Media Player sharing setup with my Xboxes. Problem is in Vista there is no such thing as a deinstall/reinstall (which probably would have… Read More »
This has bugged me for a number of years about Vista. The icons on the desktop look way to big for me and never really worked out how to shrink them. Surprisingly its dead easy. Right Click anywhere on the desktop and click View. Then click on Classic Icons. Job done.
I’ve been doing a lot of investigation and trying out of things on the Betas of Windows 7, and not since XP have I seen a rock solid product from Microsoft. The problem with being on the forefront of technology however is that some software doesn’t always work without a bit of digging. (This is… Read More »
A quick Bat script that will read input from a txt file with folder locations and identify read only files outputting them to a csv file.