When using the explorer in Windows Vista I was having trouble finding the folder properties, for showing hidden files among other things. Like everything else in Vista it has moved and changed name. No longer can you find it under “Tools” -> “Folder Options…” But now under “Organize” -> “Folder and Search Options” It really [...]
Archives for Computing
Open Java and Windows Options
Well it’s officially been announced that Java J2SE, J2ME, J2EE will all be released by sun as reference implementations under the Gnu GPL + classpath exception. Which I’m sure will bring a new era of Java, especially to Linux since Java will be able to be shipped with distributions without concern just like Mono is [...]
BenQ s52 v54 ACPI
I have now had a few requests from non native English speakers for the compiled version of the ACPI DSDT that I have created for my laptop. So it is linked here. Compiled DSDT for BenQ s52 v54 The source copy is located on the acpi website. Please note that this is the upgraded BIOS [...]
Laptops and Email
Well it’s the start of a new year and I am back here at work. I have decided to get a laptop this year and finally replace my aging desktop. I got a Benq S52 v54 and got it salary sacrifice which is great. A not about this laptop and Ubuntu though.. it doesn’t work, [...]
Death to open source by virus scan
Today for the first time my virus scanner here at work started deleting files. Identifying them as the Prockill-DF virus. It wasn’t going to take any chances and deleted the files what was interesting was what files it identified: Filezilla setup Gaim setup #Develop setup xampp setup Are you getting my drift here it’s after [...]
Firefox 1.0
Well after 18 months of development it is finally here. The 1.0 release of Mozilla Firefox and so far it seems to have fixed a few of those little problems with 1.0PR(1.0 Pre-Release). With this release finally marking as stable it means today more than ever we should be recommending to everyone from your Tech [...]
Sick of 16 color tray icons in win2k?
Here at work we I am running Windows 2000 and for the longest time the fact that tray icons could only have 16 colours has annoyed me for the longest time. With a lot of newer programs creating their icons to this high colour made the UI(User Interface) look really bad :(. However to day [...]
New Firefox Release
Just a quick note Firefox 1.0 Pre-Release has gone out today. Is quite stable and there are a few new interface features which are quite cool. So http://www.getfirefox.com
Real GMail Checker
I got a GMail account about a month ago and I’ve run through alot of GMail checkers to find one that fits. I used the FireFox extension found here but then on Slashdot I saw that google have released their own version, gmail-helper. It’s not stripping web pages so the speed is incredible and the [...]
Open Source Challenge
I challenge all my fellow Linux geeks and other computer users out there to take up the *[Open Source] Challenge*. That is that each one of you try to use Open Source for all your computing. Now I hear you say “I spend most of my computing time at work and I can only use [...]
