Microsoft is really showing their hand now a days. They love us so much, they want .99 cents for the new ‘divx’ codec. Yep, Bill’s once great company, the one that gave us things like Power Toys for free, now won’t even let you watch a modern movie without paying up. Why didn’t you charge the movie makers a buck to keep me from downloading it, eh, Satya? I though you were the master of the upcharge?
Well, fsck you too Microsoft. You, and the cheap whore on your back.
Nice case design! Everything but access to pin headers, which I think can be handled pretty easily. Ordered up all the parts, keep watching for the build.
What were the developers thinking back with WIndows 8? 1 Pixel window boarders are some kind of hell for everyone. It just goes to show how totally ignorant Microsoft developers are to real world use scenarios.
Spring cleaning on a summers day – of the digital sort. Cleaning up some steam games and I find that Elite Dangerous is using a whopping 27gb! In their defense, they tell you 20gb is required, and I’ve had the game installed forever… but still… dangerous indeed!
So MS has gone double back on the word, which is one way forward I guess. After saying that there would never be another:
“Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.” That was the message from Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company’s Ignite conference this week.
[the above quote is a perfect example of why brainless exists, the actual quoted work is now killed off]
Those who have been paying attention for a while now will see yet more similarities with Windows 11 and Vista. I’m not saying it, but MS clearly is, these are two stinking turds that need to go poof. Windows 12, and of course it will not be called ‘Windows 12’, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’ll be Windows Woke, or perhaps WindowsYourWay, as is the perceived market demand. WindowsTheyThem? WindowsWideOpen. Haha, we all know it’ll be Windows 365.
Finally combining xBox and Windows in a online service based platform. Microtransactioning the fsck out of the consumer. Fondling their personal and corporate greed like a 8th grader on summer vacation, at the cost of business’s ability to business even more than today’s impossible environment.
At least we now know not to pay attention to Windows 11… it’s a goner. Keep listening to the kids, Microsoft, and this will continue.
Never just attempt to remove the Swartz. Remove, or remove not; there is no attempt.
Police said the victim was confronted at his residence by his landlord, Michael Bruno, who was attempting to remove the Swartz from the residence. According to the police report, Bruno pointed a shotgun at the victim. The victim then grabbed the barrel of the shotgun and struggled with Bruno,
I’m so sick of Microsoft’s bu!!shit. They continue to fsck over business and their techie base. Modern Windows is nothing (but crap) compared to prior versions. If I need to go into the reasons, please just move along, this is not an article for you – in fact, this is not a site for you. Go away and never come back again. I don’t write this crap for you.
So lets work on a plan to end this madness!
For now, control of Window’s communication with Microsoft servers is step one.
This page will remain a work in progress until I have enough for a full article, please feel free to contribute.
So in going through the remains of Brainless from before the wipe, I ran across this site. I used their software in the past and they have some real neat offers.
Unfortunately, there may be the possibility that the developer is Russian. Consider this strongly before visiting.
To mount a physical hard disk onto a VirtualBox guest, we need to first create a VMDK configuration file which points to the physical disk, and then attach this VMDK file to the VirtualBox guest.
“\ \ . \PhysicalDrive0″ Is the DeviceID as seen by Windows, it can be found from the command:
wmic diskdrive list brief
Now attach c:\PhysicalDrive0.vmdk to your guest as normal
Mounting a disk image (made with dd):
Create a .vmdk config file as above. Use any attached hard disk. Even one in use. Then tweak it to point to your dd image file.
The .vmdk config file is a simple text file. Here’s my tweaked version with some comments.
# Disk DescriptorFile
##MYC## So the only things I actually changed were the CID, the number of sectors and the file location
##MYC## Then I commented out the original uuid lines
##MYC## CID must be different for each device mounted
version=1
CID=6efb06b0
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"
# Extent description
##MYC## This number is the number of 512 byte sectors. The dd image filesize_in_bytes / 512
RW 625142528 FLAT "/3tb/ryph-newpc-images/eden-pc-final.dd" 0
# The disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
##MYC## Apparently the geometry parameters don't matter if the disk is greater than 8GB. Just leave them as they were
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
##MYC## I commented out the uuid params. But I think they will get created again when you attach it
##MYC## ddb.uuid.image="6b29d83e-c656-40cf-919d-f8b2219761d2"
##MYC## ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
##MYC## ddb.uuid.modification="5b4f167c-9bab-4e6a-935a-9dcf2ee9bc20"
##MYC## ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders="1024"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads="255"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors="63"
“dd” is the linux command for taking byte by byte copies of files. Since a hard disk behaves sort of like a big file in linux, we can use “dd” to take a copy or image.
It is a good idea to zero all free space on the original disk before taking the image. This will make the empty space easier to compress. So if possible, mount the original disk, cd onto it and run the following commands to create file to fill the remaining hard disk space with zeros, you can then delete the file.
Never too early to start thinking about how to drive!
I had linked to this BestRide article back in Oct, 2016 on my old site. Now it seems that the link is dead as so often happens, and in this case the information is important enough to resurrect and host here.
This is one of the very best guides to winter driving I’ve ever read. Accurately delivered in an intelligent voice and yet short enough that even the average American should be able to focus long enough to take it all in. Kudos to Wyatt Knox!
Wavosaur has been around forever and is a great tool from the days before. Small, full of features, and if you can believe it, still being updated! Give it a look if you wish.
Here’s a partial list of Run commands used to execute programs in Windows. Once you memorize them, it can be easier to type the executable then to navigate Windows. Note that you can run most of these in the Run prompt or the Command Prompt or PowerShell.
To open Run, press the Windows + R keys on the keyboard or right-click Start and select Run. Don’t forget, the Search option works pretty well too!
I omitted .exe extensions, and will be adding to the list as time goes on. Please let me know if there are any typos. Bookmark this page.
Run Commands
Program
Command
About Windows
winver
Administrative Tools
control admintools
Calculator
calc
Certificate Manager
Certmgr.msc
Character Map
Charmap
Command Prompt
cmd
Computer Management
compmgmt.msc
Credential Manager
Control /name Microsoft.CredentialManager
Date and Time
Timedate.cpl
Device Manager
devmgmt.msc
DirectX Diagnostic Tool
dxdiag
Disk Cleanup
cleanmgr
Disk Management
diskmgmt.msc
Event Viewer
eventvwr
File Explorer/Windows Explorer
Explorer (Windows + E)
Folder Options (also known as File Explorer Options)
