BusyDizzys

This guy uses the Windows upgrade procedures & upgrade versions to keep moving up 1 version of Windows at a time starting with a bare base MS-DOS 5 all the way thru to Windows 7. He is doing it in a virtual machine and from what I can see is only ins… more »

Anti-Apple... yeah that about right so I posting this, I just don't agree with there buisness practices i'm sure the pretty looking, cleaned up and shiney hardware from last year with this years price tag on is fine though ;)   more »

Nothing else to post about...   There was a highly technical reason why this was happening involving ever 3rd/4th byte in video ram becoming corrupt and why it only effects certain charecters, but I gave up reading as the simple answer is "its f*cke… more »

VLC is now 10yrs old, I have personally been using it for years because it just works,its free, its small, light, fast and well just works. Other media players I always come across some stupid codec related issue that is nigh on impossible to solve (yes… more »

Opera 11 appears today, ready for download and use. I'm posting this because... well because I am, and Opera holds a place in my heart as the browser I ran on my 486 Dx4 as it was very usable, and those early days of the internet were pretty special. I d… more »

Found this usefull bit of information. Microsoft list the checksum of all of there products going back as far as I can see MS-Dos 6 & Windows 3.x uptil now XP & Windows 7 and everthing in between. This may be usefull if you want to verify that no… more »

Bit of not so important news, since no one actually cares and im pretty sure theres still people out there running XP even without any service packs (cash machines ;) ) Microsoft has decided the cut off date for OEMs shipping Windows XP on so called netb… more »

Bit irrelevant as I think the world can live without Apple but won't be able to live without Microsoft, not like either is going anywhere soon anyhow. Anyway this latest wonder news is based on share price value M$'s fell (down to $219Bn) and Apples (ros… more »

It's happened before and its happening again, a virus attack which goes undected by modern av apps. It works by giving the av some nice clean code to test and then switching it out for some bad sh*t, the whole attack relies on timing and the fact threads… more »

Who needs a actual virus when your own anti-virus detects legit parts of your operating system as a virus in themselfs. Thats whats happened here, a update to McAfee (as if anyone seriously considers that a AV) caused Windows XP systems to constantly reb… more »

This will surely end in tears, we have seen these solutions over the years from all kinds of vendors hardware & software alike and it just never lives up to the promise. M$'s system restore I have used once since it with Windows 2000, every other iss… more »

Who remembers this : Well the true origin of this TellyTubby alike picture has finally been revealed :  "ore than a billion home computers have been distributed across the globe, arguably making the ‘Bliss’ image the most viewed picture in the… more »

I can see sh*t breaking, and breaking bad :p theres no way im gonna be using all them mongy disk managers, boot managers and f*ck knows what else in this day and age we left them behind with out 486s... I have very bad memorys of OEM Custom hard drive in… more »

Now this is a tad naughty, that patch a few days ago that checks out what hack/crack you running to bypass activation... seems to run ever now and again (90 days so far) and keep checking... but wait theres more it will download and update it self with t… more »

WGA the pain the ass, that can be bypassed in 1001 ways... the very same wonderfull bit of software which can show a perfect legal copy of XP to be well not so legal.. however in the eyes of M$ and the law it's a all in 1 wonder tool, helping rid the wor… more »

Well 1 of a few proberly still lurking about, its called backwards compatibility and its there for a reason (apprantly you try running a DOS app on Windows) anyhow a bug that allows pc hijacking as the article calls it has been uncovered and its all to w… more »

BitLocker M$'s seemingly wonder hard drive encryption tool, bypassed. As if a Microsoft security tool could actually be taken seriously and expected to hold out for any length of time...Some random logo :"German researchers have devised five method… more »