June 2005 Entries
Someone has actually spent time accummulating screenshots of toilets in video games. Jeez. Must be one of those fetish things.
Yeee Haaa! I've finally got my ADSL upgrade and am now running at 2 Mbps. Browsing is all a bit more snappier.
I did have a few hiccups along the way. In fact, I lost my ADSL connection entirely for a day but that seemed to be a problem with the local exchange. While diagnosing that, I discovered our house had some bad phone wiring. Two phone extensions were wired before the master socket rather than after it. I fixed that. After getting my connection back, I found I the speed was throttled by Plus.net but they fixed that after I...
Good point from an interview with Joe Kraus:
"The 20th Century mass production world was about dozens of markets of millions of people. The 21st Century is all about millions of markets of dozens of people," observes Mr Kraus.
The killer business is one that can service those millions of tiny markets efficiently.
This isn't just a slimming down guide. It's taking a chain saw to it and paring Windows XP down to the bare minimum! It'll give the dev's in the Windows group nightmares.
There is a valid point here in that there is a big demand out there for greater transparency of how Windows works and what's in it. For example, when software installs, I should be able to inspect everything that has happened (i.e. registry changes, files added). It should be easy to manage what runs at startup and inspect the device drivers that are running. It should be really easy...
Another interesting event in the evolution of Virtual Worlds. I'm sure you know about the sale of virtual items for real money and even the purchase of virtual land for real cash ($30,000 for an island).
Now we have a murder over such dealings.
"Qui Chengwei stabbed Zhu Caoyuan in the chest when he found out he had sold his virtual sword for 7,200 Yuan (£473)."
The interesting bit is that the theft of virtual property isn't covered by Chinese law so Qui Chengwei had no legal recourse. In contrast, South Korean does recognise "game crime". It's all so very strange give that...
I've been banging my head against this problem for a while. I have an NEC 2500a DVD-Writer. Nero 6 will burn a CD on it without any problem. It works. Windows XP recognises it as a DVD-Writer since it displays a recording tab in the drive properties windows. I have recording enabled. The device manager reports that everything is ok with the device. The "IMAPI CD Burning Service" is started and running on my machine.
But do you think Windows XP will let me burn a CD? Nope. Nadda. Not a chance.
If try to burn some files to a CD-R, I just...
I've been tweaking my PC and stumbled upon this excellent guides for optimising Windows XP. Worth a read. I knew of quite a few of the recommended freeeware utilities but learned about some new ones.