Getting rid of outdated $NTUninstall information from your main Windows directory can free up several hundred megabytes of disk space. Do it wrong and you can confuse your OS.
Happy 4th anniversary to RR…!! This blog was first created in March of 2002 with Movable Type. Eventually, with the 3.0x versions, MT migrated to a pay-per-author structure and mandatory registration with TypePad. I became disillusioned with where the franchise was heading, thanks also to some other significant user interface changes that differed greatly from [...]
I’m paranoid when it comes to the Internet: email, surfing, downloads, shareware, everything. And I’m not exactly a newbie when it comes to anything computer related. Last night I scanned my system with LavaSoft’s Ad-Aware and discovered ClickSpring’s MediaTicketsInstaller lurking on my computer, proof that even I can get viruses and spyware on my home [...]
Some áššhølë took over my computer last night.
To be more specific, some áššhølë wrote some software and published it on the object.passthison.com subdomain which then took over my computer. While Googling for some information for some fellow notaries public, I ran across a notary website that displayed the ad that the bûtthëád created. Despite the [...]
Next time I write a check to buy any Microsoft products, I think I’ll attach this little note:
By cashing this check, you indicate your acceptance of my License Agreement. This is a legal Agreement between you, the SOFTWARE COMPANY, and me, the END USER. The paid-for SOFTWARE is no longer restricted by any prior [...]
My family busied themselves in the living room, knowing that the two-hour-long task I was about to undertake would require my full and total concentration. I sat nervously at my keyboard, anxiously awaiting an instant message from a stranger I had never met or even spoken with. For the third time, I needlessly rechecked my [...]
Well, since I covered a few computer stupidities, I guess I should give equal space to software stupidities…
Microsoft Word (somewhere around 1999) - “Word cannot edit the unknown.”
If you typed in ‘God’ at the prompt on an ICL mainframe running the VME operating system, and assuming an appropriately named program was not installed, you’d receive [...]
Every day I hear about people making both good and bad choices when they purchase stuff, everything from computer software to electronics. I thought I’d highlight where I think I’ve best spent some of my money:
There are days when I just don’t like Microsoft. There are days when I hate Microsoft. And then there are days like today when words utterly fail me. What the $#^%$@#$ is wrong with Microsoft?!!
On June 4, 1996, the maiden flight of the European Space Agency Ariane 501 rocket engaged its self-destruct mechanism 39 seconds after takeoff, disintegrating itself and its four-satellite payload.
