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Windows XP SP3 - FAIL
I don’t know why I didn’t think this would happen… it is Microsoft and they have proved for the last 8 years that they are absolutely incapable of releasing valuable, stable, robust and well-designed software. Rumors abound that Windows XP SP3 installs are fucking over computers world-wide, resulting in the inability to boot after the patches [...]
Continue reading...GameSpot Video Reviews Suck
Sunday, April 13, 2008
If you are familiar with the drama that unfolded around GameSpot 6 months or so ago, then you know that there was a mass-exodus of their senior talent that all left in response. Since then the site has been scrambling to keep operations going, reviews churning, etc. For the most part I’ve always liked watching the [...]
Continue reading...iPhone Review (Part 1 of 3)
Thursday, March 6, 2008
iPhone Review, Part 1 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 2 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 3 of 3 I’ve had my iPhone for 2 weeks or so, and while it’s a really nice device, if I were not a mobile-media guy I would strongly suggest a BlackBerry Curve to you or even a Pearl if you aren’t [...]
Continue reading...Acrocrap, POSbat?
Thursday, February 21, 2008
So your cruising the internets, up pops that annoying ”Do you want to update acrobat now?” box. After clicking yes 500 times, you finally get your resource hogging, bloated, holier-than-thou PDF reader running again…. for the 5th time this month. On the heels of the latest news of the zoneback acrobat trojan causing havok on [...]
Continue reading...BlackBerry Outtage… AGAIN!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
John Hering just sent a heads up that RIM (BlackBerry) is suffering another massive network outage (80% effected) just weeks after their 2nd outage in a year. Guys seriously… redundancy-what?
Continue reading...Microsoft Vista (Backup) Review: A Lesson in Stupidity
Friday, February 15, 2008
The reason Apple and Mac OS X are so famous is only because Microsoft exists. … don’t skip past that first sentence… it really sums up the rest of this review and explains to you, at so many levels. Let me say it another way: People like Apple products and Mac OS X, because Microsoft set a [...]
Continue reading...Crusty the Clown Caused the RRoD
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Ted Regulski sent along a link to a great YouTube video… I’m going to share it with you… I’m going to share it and you are going to like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2udm8qSnhLs
Continue reading...Xbox 360 DRM Can’t Handle RRoD
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Update #1: Laurence Hartje, having gone through this process, set the record straight down in the comments. Things aren’t as bad as originally thought. Microsoft’s Xbox DRM will lock you out of your own content if you get your red-ringed Xbox replaced. I bolded that sentence, to give you something to chew on. If you got your Xbox [...]
Continue reading...BlackBerry Massive Outage Reported
Monday, February 11, 2008
Laurence Hartje sent in news of a massive outage for BlackBerry users across the U.S., affecting up to 8 million users apparently due to some massive hardware failure on RIM’s side. This is the 2nd massive failure in the last 10 months for RIM. Don’t you iPhone users get too smug, AT&T isn’t without it’s problems either.
Continue reading...ASUS Motherboard + Crucial Ballistix = Lockups on Boot
Friday, February 8, 2008
NOTE: This post pertains to ASUS Maximus boards hanging during POST at the DET RAM and COUNTMEM stages. UPDATE: Update #6 at the bottom of this post explains that the latest BIOS update from ASUS fixes this issue finally. I was up until god-knows-when last night troubleshooting what was wrong with my new computer that I’m trying [...]
Continue reading...Create Customized Windows Vista ISO with vLite
Monday, January 28, 2008
For the folks that have used nLite with Windows XP and love it, stop right there… vLite is for Vista and works just as awesome. For folks that have no idea what nLite or vLite are, they are these badass programs written by Dino Nuhagic that are used to take the install files for Windows XP [...]
Continue reading...Windows Install Recovery Tips (Not a Reinstall)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Following up with our previous tip about keeping windows from “rotting”, Grant Gochnauer sends in another great tip from the ShippingSeven blog for recovering a really fuck-up Windows install without reinstalling. There are actually two tips, and they are: Try logging off, then back on instead of rebooting. Try backing up your data and then erasing [...]
Continue reading...Please Wait, 2175% Done
Monday, January 21, 2008
I got the screen above today when I was goofing around with XviD4PSP 5.0… not too shabby, it’s almost 2200% done processing my file. That’s a lot of… done. On a more serious note, I don’t think this program expects you to ever try and resample a DVD for your PSP… just opening a movie file [...]
Continue reading...What Causes “Windows Rot” and How Can it be Avoided?
Thursday, January 17, 2008
NOTE: “Windows Rot” is the name given to the phenomenon that every install of Windows degrades over time, gradually getting slower and slower, using more and more ram, until the computer running it needs to be reformatted and have Windows reinstalled. This phenomenon has existed since Windows 3.1 and is alive and well today more [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware Bugs & Bricks
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Ruh-roh… looks like the new 1.1.3 firmware update to the iPhone has some kinks that need to get worked out. Right now folks are reporting: Bluetooth connection to headset stopped working (connection cannot be made) Out-of-order SMS messages Email stops syncing with the device Some users report bricking their iPhone after installing the update, not being able to boot or [...]
Continue reading...Plays (Not So) For Sure
Monday, January 14, 2008
I noticed last week that I haven’t seen much of the “Plays for Sure” program around anymore. It seems that Microsoft has left all the 3rd party vendors out in the cold and is now embracing “Certified for Windows Vista”. The Plays for Sure program was a certification prosses that started in 2004 [...]
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