Vista Archives - Mostly Harmless

Installed Windows 7 RC

My Dell XPS720 has been locking up and staying dead for hours. The only thing that would bring it back was unplugging the PC from the power and wait till it forgave whatever offense I committed. This week I backed… Continue Reading →

2009/07/25

It’s like Vista but sucks much less

I’ll probably upgrade to Windows 7 when it is available. But then I do like swearing at my PC, and this will be the “best version of Windows ever” again.

2009/01/09

EVGA GTX-260 and Far Cry 2

One of the items I got for Christmas was an EVGA GTX-260 with 896 MB of DDR3 RAM. This is an upgrade from a pair for GeForce 7900 in SLI mode. The game comes with Far Cry 2 which works… Continue Reading →

2008/12/28

Vista is consumer crap

So I booted my PC today when I got home today. I had intended to check e-mail before running out. The damn thing won’t boot. I’m typing this on the kitchen laptop. It says the registry file is corrupted and… Continue Reading →

2008/09/16

“James Bond never had to put up with this Vista sh&^”

My Vista 64 bit OS has been acting a little flaky for a long time. The latest symptom was my DHCP client not working. When Dell did the free motherboard swap upgrade, I was supposed to re-install the OS then. … Continue Reading →

2008/07/26

Raw NEF files and WD’s MyBook

I take pictures in Nikon’s raw NEF format because I can use Photoshop Element’s raw importer to tweak the exposure, clarity, black level, etc. But the NEF files are often 9 MB files and I have almost 3,000 of them… Continue Reading →

2008/07/06

Installed Vista SP1

This morning the 120 MB download for Vista Sp1 was available. The download was fast but the scary part is that the update eventually happened while my screen was totally off in power saving mode. That took more than 10… Continue Reading →

2008/03/19

Vista and 4 GB of RAM

I’m running Vista 64 on my XPS 700 720 and I just upgraded from 2 GB RAM to 4 GB of 800 MHz dual channel DDR2 ram. My system was running slowly (it’s a Microsoft Operating System). The RAM even… Continue Reading →

2008/02/22

Ubuntu 7.10 on Virtual PC 2007

Today it’s President’s Day, it’s raining, and the kids are off this week. So naturally I am goofing around with my PC. I’ll head to the basement soon to play with the kids but first I want to setup something… Continue Reading →

2008/02/18

Java on Vista 64 bit does not work

Another update: While Java is still working for me, other people have resolved their problem below. Read the comments for a solution. Update: I still get hits to this post. Java works on my Vista 64 installation for both Internet… Continue Reading →

2007/09/29

Mostly Harmless

Mostly about my amusement

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