Here’s a little narrative story thing that actually happened, as opposed to all those other narrative story things that kinda happened, but didn’t. Can’t think of any off the top of my head, but they probably have to do with grilled cheese sandwiches, somehow.
Helping my dad today with some old disks, we realised that in XP Microsoft removed the 720K option from the GUI format tool, and the /F:720 flag is gone from FORMAT on the command line! Fortunately if you specify the tracks and sectors manually it recognises the 720K disk and formats it.
FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
I don’t have any machines with floppy drives running Vista or 7, but I assume this still works in later versions.
Checking out ZDNet I was redirected to an article by Ed Bott who dismisses many of the woes with Windows as being the fault of its antitrust lawsuit. Yeah, damn those big government people trying to break up an unethical corporation!
While receiving little in the way of tangible benefits, blogging has turned out to be a great way to speak my mind and ultimately to relax… perhaps this is the reason I post entries the most when I’m the most busy! Other times though, mean people ruin the fun.
On Tuesday I announced on Twitter that I’d booked a seat for Steve Ballmer’s talk at Marina Sands celebrating 20 years of Microsoft in Singapore. At least, I thought I did until I got this message:
Due to overwhelming demand, we are unable to offer you a seat (-6).
It’s official, Microsoft’s breakout Windows 3.0 “operating system” turned 20 today. Well, really it was yesterday but we’ll pretend it was today so I can write this post. Mikuru looks horrified at it running on the desktop ;).
David Olsen on Twitter said something this morning which I think is endemic of the reason why Microsoft is being crushed in the consumer space and can’t understand why. For once, a more serious post here on Rubénerd.com!
ZDNet Australia is reporting on yet another bug caused by terminals running anti-virus software on a consumer level operating system instead of using a more efficient and secure embedded system that wouldn’t need such code running in the first place.
Back in the day I used the release candidate of Windows 7, but now that I finally have a student copy I’ve been using it in a production setting. These are some of my observations.
Since installing my new student licenced copy of Windows 7 Professional in VirtualBox over the weekend, I’ve been testing how well my Windows-only software runs in it compared to my trusty ol’ Windows 2000 VM. So far as good as can be expected, but there are few very strange anomalies.
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