- November 22, 2011
- Testing Windows 8 Developer Preview Version
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Technology
- Tagged with: AMD, America, Android, app, Bizarre, California, computer, country, Design, Developer, Development, disc, dynamic, Environment, footprint, HOPE, host machine, install, investigation, ISO, licence, Machine, Mad, memory, memory allocation, memory size, Microsoft, microsoft land, monitor, monster, MSDN, network, partition, processor, Screen, screenshot, smartphone, touchscreen, Upgrade, Virtual, virtual box, virtual installation, virtual machine, virtual processors, Vista, weather, Website, Weird, Windows
Windows 8 Developer Preview I’ve finally decided to test the next Windows edition, probably to be called Windows 8, although things like that are never certain in Microsoft-land. Virtual Box I did a Virtual Box install, which is fairly straightforward. There are many tutorials on-line now which show how to do this, so I won’t [...]
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- September 26, 2009
- How to Convert a Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk in Windows 7
- Posted by Strangely
- Technology
- Tagged with: Backup, boot drive, clone, comment, creative, Dance, data, data mirroring, Database, decor, Devil, Digital, disc, disk option, disk partition software, duty, dynamic, dynamic disk, ESET, experience, fault, forum, Galaxy, good, hex editor, Hitch-hiker, Information, install, management, Microsoft, Mirror, Mistake, partition, partitions, pitfalls, power, program, Protect, Screen, screendump, screenshot, sense, sleep, Software, solution, state, Studio, system, TechNet, technet microsoft, Wahay, warning, Western, Windows
How to Convert a Windows 7 Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk When Microsoft says It’s Irreversible! Firstly, Do Not Dance with the Devil! I made the mistake (again!) of trying dynamic disks with my new Windows 7 installation. I must have been asleep – the use of this system is seriously frowned upon for most [...]
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- March 21, 2009
- Early Morning Walk with New Camera (and dog!)
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Environment
- Tagged with: Bridgwater, camera, canal, Dog, dynamic, flower, gallery, George, Hack, Hacked, Lumix, morning, panasonic, Picture, Somerset, spring, Sun, TZ5, walk
These are a few pictures taken with my new Panasonic Lumix TZ5. They show the first real flowers in the back garden, some daffodils across the canal and some ethereal and dynamic shots from down the canal that demonstrate the effect of sunlight on reed beds with the sun for and against you! There are [...]
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- December 14, 2008
- The Problem with Microsoft and Oledb32.dll
- Posted by Strangely
- Technology
- Tagged with: alert, Antivirus, attack, browser, computer, Conditions, Construct, corporate, Corruption, courage, Dance, data, Design, dynamic, Environment, fault, functionality, Information, Internet, Internet Explorer, investigation, memory, Microsoft, monitor, Operating, operating system, problem, Protect, Secunia, Security, service, Software, speech, state, Studio, system, TechNet, technology, threat, virus, Vista, vulnerability, Windows, World
Another day, another Microsoft security alert.. This morning, another raft of advisories arrived in my mail from Secunia, this is one; Internet Explorer Data Binding Memory Corruption Vulnerability This rivetting title is like deja-vu. Time and again we’ve seen this. This is the fault of a company, Microsoft, that puts form before function, functionality before [...]
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- November 11, 2008
- The Air Powered Car – Better than Batteries
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: air powered car, Alaska, battery, BBC, Biofuel, business, climate, concept, Conundrum, creative, credit crunch, Cycle, Cyclist, desert, dynamic, economy, Electric, energy, engine, Environment, Factory, Fuel, future, good, guy negre, industry, Lithium, Mankind, market, Nature, Nuclear, pessimism, pollution, power, problem, release, Resource, Sport, Stagger, state, Sun, technology, Times, Transport, United States, vehicle, water, Wikipedia, World
Finally it’s starting to dawn on a few people that battery powered cars are not the way out of our low-carbon energy conundrum. Bolivia holds key to electric car future. In this piece, the BBC note that Lithium, the 3rd element in the periodic table, a major power source for everyone’s laptops and mobile phones, [...]
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- April 5, 2008
- The Honourable Ted
- Posted by Strangely
- Crawling Chaos
- Tagged with: Audio, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, dynamic, fatso, forge, good, Head, honour, laugh, logic, Music, MySpace, Wikipedia
Eddie Fenn aka Errol Dynamic aka Fatso from my Crawling Chaos days and aka The Honourable Ted I’ve just (re)found on MySpace here. I just had to mention it as it’s really good. Cheered me up immensely. I don’t know if it’s meant to be funny but there are some of his tunes that just [...]
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- March 5, 2008
- China, Plastic Bags, The West, Cause and Effect.
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Environment
- Tagged with: Asia, BBC, Britain, Buddhism, Buddhist, cause and effect, China, country, daily mail, dynamic, evidence, Factory, Flood, France, game, good, Gordon Brown, Government, Great, Guardian, Head, headline, market, mind, Pacific, Politics, pollution, state, Supermarket, The West, threat, waste, Western, Wikipedia, World
How western governments shroud a Chinese plastic bag factory closure behind the smokescreen of local environmental improvements!
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