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Oct/11

Lock & Unlock Windows With Bluetooth

Filed Under Security, Windows at 11th October 2011 0:01 by

Overview I’d love to automate as much as possible and also get some great UIs along the way (Minority Report / Iron Man anyone?). An article I came across from How To Geek was a step closer to the dream. … Continue reading →

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Sep/11

Windows 8 Preview Unexpected Error Status: 0xc0000225

Filed Under Windows at 22nd September 2011 0:01 by

I tried installing Windows 8 Preview on Oracle VM VirtualBox but when it started it errored on a black screen with white writing and stopped. The error at the bottom says Status: 0xc0000225 Info: An unexpected error has occurred. The … Continue reading →

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Aug/11

Acer Aspire One D255E Mini Review

Filed Under Hardware, Linux, Windows at 17th August 2011 0:04 by

Overview Our Asus EEE PC 701 SSD failed when I tried to upgrade it from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. I was in the middle of an install when it failed to copy a file and then there after it could … Continue reading →

18

Nov/10

Error: You Are Using A High Performance Setting

Filed Under Blog at 18th November 2010 19:12 by

I ran the Windows 7 “Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report” tool to see what can be done to reduce power consumption but it reports that using the performance power setting as an Error? Surely it should be a warning or not … Continue reading →

4

Jul/10

Java 4-Ever

Filed Under Java at 4th July 2010 22:13 by

This was such a funny video I had to post it.

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Feb/10

Separating User & Windows On Different Drives

Filed Under Windows at 22nd February 2010 0:01 by

Overview I wanted to have the Windows partition and the user partition on separate drives. I have done this in the past on a Linux computer and it was very painless. The advantage to this setup is that most of … Continue reading →

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Jan/10

Windows 7 Monitor Power Test

Filed Under Windows at 27th January 2010 10:28 by

There is a report generator in Microsoft Windows 7 which can help you track down what is being used in terms of power. The report tells you what is stopping the computer going into sleep mode (if sleep mode is … Continue reading →

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Oct/09

VirtualBox With Ubuntu Quick Review

Filed Under Linux, Review, Software, Windows at 19th October 2009 0:01 by

Overview I found Sun’s VirtualBox and thought I’d try it out. As everything is going virtual and having used it in Mac I thought it was time to step it up in Windows so I can start running things like … Continue reading →