Over the last few months I've lost a two motherboards, a processor, 3 ADSL filters. Today, I'm happily working away (with my 3 week old motherboard) when there's a terrific crack and both monitors...
When I was tearing my hair out trying to fix my machine, as an act of desperation I uninstalled all my Firefox Addons. Now I can't remember what they all were. Any Firefox freeks want to suggest their...
Just in case anyone's interested, I fixed my white screen of death problem, by preventing Asus aaCenter.exe (which is something to do with ACPI) from running. Pity I'd already ordered a new...
Total nightmare. Every time I switch my machine on it runs for aprox. 4 minutes, then the screen turns white. Machine works in safe mode (which is where I am now). Tried Msconfig disable everything I...
You'd better be when you read this: Ive been using my Win7 machine solidly for 6 days, including writing software, and writing installation packages. It hasn't crashed once, and I still like it! It...
Just in case anyone's interested in Windows 7... I've spent the last couple of days playing with public beta, including writing some little test apps that require various levels of user privileges,...
Got a call from a lady who has ADSL USB modem. Suddenly the machine had started rebooting every time it connected. Turned off "Restart on errors" and tried again. Now after connecting, the screen goes...
For those who are interested, trying to do a dual-boot install of Ubuntu by following the instructions at http://apcmag.com/the_definitive_dualbooting_g uide_linux_vista_and_xp_stepbystep.htm...
Hi, I've spent the last 3 hours converting 60 MIDI files to wavs for our rhythm guitarist to use for rehearsing. He's coming round tomorrow with his iPod, about which he knows nothing. I can batch...
The Japanese computer supplier NEC has officially launched a product to let network administrators downgrade machines running Windows Vista to XP. That's Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, and NEC, that I know...
Every car I've ever owned (and the oldest was a 1956 Ford) has had a 3-way switch to control the courtesy light (I believe its called a dome light in the US). The settings are On, Off, and...
So, I just tried the new AB (don't get the option in Firefox) and I notice that it nows gives some additional info about me next to my posts. But it claims that my favourite category is "AB...
No a question, but I thought some of you might be as amused as I was by this e-mail we received from Fujitsu Seimens: "Dear Partner, Downgrade to XP Professional then upgrade to VISTA whenever you're...
Anyone running Safari 3 Windows Beta? I've installed it and get no text anywhere! That is to say, not only are all pages rendered without text, but also the interface is completely missing all text as...
I think it's time for a new section. You could call it "Mob Rule". Some good subsections would be "Hysteria", "Lynching" and "Xenophobia" (and possibly "Daily Mail Readers Only"). Who knows? Perhaps...
