Need help opening up a old hard disk??
If you're going to do this more than once, a full set of Torx and security Torx is a must. Drilling is messy and potentially dangerous. And it's not necessary. Also, when pulling apart hard drives,...
View ArticleAPC March 09: Win 7 to kill Vista
[quote=tim2hawkes]me in oz there r tones of features that you can only get while having an actual installation not vming it but they are mostly graphical [/quote] Yep... All the rest is the same as...
View ArticleTwo years of Vista "Ultimate"
[quote=petert]Did you buy VU?[/quote] Nope. Glad I didn't too. Nothing in it is that Ultimate, and the extras are pathetic. I have downloaded the Dreamscenes and been disappointed by the lack of...
View ArticleAMD64
Always use a 64 bit binary on a 64 bit OS when possible. It'll have a slightly larger disk and memory footprint, but avoids the weirdness associated with running 32 bit apps on 64 bit OSes.
View ArticleWhat's your desktop?
My wallpaper at work right now is Zooey Deschanel... I'd post a link to exactly which one, but I don't want to go browsing wallpaper sites from work just in case something naughty comes up. Not sure...
View ArticleVista bootloader pain
So yesterday at some stage Vista decided to nuke my boot manager. It had booted via XOSL that morning, and last night I went to boot into XP to record a TV show... But XOSL wasn't there. Anyway, having...
View ArticleDoes SP1 really take two hours?
If you're worried about it taking ages, do what I did... Install it while you're busy doing something else, like watching a movie or visiting friends. Just watch out that you actually get it started...
View ArticleTop 10 reasons Windows still trumps Mac OS X Lion
Quoting BFB: Macs ARE more expensive than cheap, flimsy PCs with low-grade components but are cheaper than pretty much ANY PC that matches (or approaches) it's level of quality hardware.I'm going to...
View ArticleTop 10 reasons Windows still trumps Mac OS X Lion
Quoting sjono10: The actual Mac OS costs $21 whilst windows costs $200?Windows price varies a lot. $200 is roughly the price of an OEM Home licence.$21 is the price of an UPGRADE version of OSX. They...
View ArticleAPC's PC Auditor app
Quoting Darren Yates: But if it's new, well, then, look out, it's a deadly virus!!! Internet Explorer's built in thing does that too... Drives me insane because we use a custom program at work to...
View ArticleHow to build a Linux router
And you are? Actually - don't bother. I don't care.I know he's an idiot because I've both read what he's written and seen videos of him opening his mouth. Maybe he's not stupid, but he certainly...
View ArticleMaster Windows 8 admin tools
Defrag is commonly used? I thought no one ran that, especially since it's scheduled for background running every week anyway.
View ArticleSave it to the cloud
I'd like to say one thing about security of data in "clouds"... Megaupload.
View ArticleFuture of the PC Poll [now fixed!]
WTF? It's quite unclear that the signin box is not APC's.Attempting to sign in with a Google account fails (at least for me) with an error about an invalid URL.I'm not signing up with Zoho (whoever...
View ArticleMiniand Hackberry A10 Dev board review
www.miniand.com link is broken at the top. Apparently "http:///" isn't a valid URL :P
View ArticleMust-have mini pc apps
With the missing apps in the Play Store on Android, sometimes you can "sideload" it by installing to a device it does show up on, export the APK file, and load that onto the device it doesn't show...
View ArticleChoosing the best Android web browser
I upgraded my ROM to a nightly CM10 build for the S1 last night. Firefox works great now. Obviously it didn't like something on the old ROM.
View ArticleChoosing the best Android web browser
Another factor is very simple - time it takes to load, if it loads at all.Firefox tends to not work on my phone. Sometimes it loads, sometimes it just never gets there.Dolphin is similar, although more...
View ArticleHow sites get hacked
I had to fix a website recently (not one I created) because the pages were loaded using a PHP wrapper that added the header and footer. Unfortunately it just included the contents of the filename it...
View ArticleMPEG-2 support for your Pi
"Because the key is tied to your board’s serial number, you can’t hack it and just throw anything in there"Well you could, but it would take a lot of guesses before you get one that works ;)
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