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Windows XP Virtual Machine

by crazyskills on Aug.24, 2010 at 12:20.09 am, under news, tech

Included* in Windows 7** Professional and Ultimate is Windows XP Mode, a virtual machine which replicates the entire*** Windows XP environment. Anyway, all asterisks aside, it’s pretty cool and pretty effective. Even Microsoft says it’s not perfect, but I have had really good luck with it. That said, there are a few things which really make it shine:

+ Allot enough memory to your virtual machine. 3584M does quite nicely.
+ Enable “hardware virtualization” in your bios.
+ Run it fullscreen
+ Install the .NET framework ver. 4
+ Install video and sound drivers specific to your hardware
+ Be prepared to funk with it for awhile before everything is perfect

and there you have it.. XP VM on 7.

peace….
Orb

* but not on the disc. Download it from microsoft.com (as long as you have Pro or Ultimate, it is a free download.)
** 6.1
*** not quite entire

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Making Themes Work in GNUMP3d

by crazyskills on Aug.01, 2010 at 9:43.27 pm, under tech

PROBLEM: Themes don’t work. Images never show, colors and styles seem to be ok though.

INTEL: Seems the cookie expired on March 10, 2008.

$header .= “Set-Cookie: ” . $key . “=” . $val . “;path=/; expires=Mon, 10-Mar-08 14:36:42 GMT;\r\n”;

SOLUTION: Change line 1349 in /usr/bin/gnump3d to reflect some other date (preferably one in the future) as the expiration date for the cookie.

As it turns out, it stopped working because the cookie was expired before it ever got used!

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Peace

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windows 7 system tools

by crazyskills on Jul.27, 2010 at 5:35.54 pm, under tech

sfc /scannow (scans system files and replaces when necessary)

bootrec /fixboot (try to automatically repair system boot problems)

bootrec /fixmbr (remove and recreate master boot record)

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Water Cooling, Corsair H50

by crazyskills on Jul.17, 2010 at 7:12.37 am, under tech

h5o

Phenom II x6, 1055T

22 bios

32 idle, win7×64

42 bad company 2

Pretty impressed!

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Triple, Quad Layer Blu Ray

by crazyskills on Jul.17, 2010 at 6:56.24 am, under uncategorized

blu ray
Yes yes. Quad layer blu ray discs (BDXL) are coming! We’re talking about 128G on a single disc. The only real problem is that conventional players will /not/ be able to read them!?

More @ slashgear.com

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Warmouse

by crazyskills on Jun.29, 2010 at 10:56.33 am, under announcement, tech

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beer ;)

by crazyskills on Jun.05, 2010 at 1:58.18 pm, under stream of consciousness, uncategorized

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure.”
-Czech Proverb

“The government will fall that raises the price of beer.”
-Czech Proverb

“Mmmmmm. Beer.”
-Homer Simpson

“Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.”
-Edgar Allen Poe

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
-Dave Barry

“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
-Humphrey Bogart

“People who drink light ‘beer’ don’t like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.”
-Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

“No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.”
-John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough

“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
-Winston Churchill

“If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.”
-Jack Handy

“Everybody has to believe in something…..I believe I’ll have another drink.”
-W.C. Fields

“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.”
-Dave Barry

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
-Ernest Hemmingway

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.”
-Martin Luther

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
-Plato

“God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?”
-Restroom in The Irish Times, Washington DC

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”
-Frank Sinatra

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
-Oscar Wilde

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
-Frank Zappa

“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?”
-Stephen Wright

“I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”
-William Shakespeare

“Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”
-Cliff Clavin, of Cheers

“A quart of ale is a dish for a king.”
-William Shakespeare

“There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.”
-Willie Nelson

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
-Oscar Wilde

“I work until beer o’clock.”
-Steven King

“Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.”
-Jack Nicholson

“I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.”
-Babe Ruth

“I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.”
-Charles Bronson

“If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they’re full.”
-Dave Mustaine

“Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.”
-Thomas Hughes

“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.”
-Casey Kasem

“The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they’re the ones falling down the most.”
-Jay Leno

“You can’t drink all day … unless you start in the morning.”
-Gary Larson

“To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life’s problems.”
-Homer J. Simpson

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bing

by crazyskills on Jun.05, 2010 at 12:50.41 pm, under announcement, stream of consciousness

Some of you are probably aware of the new-ish search initiative by Microsoft called Bing.

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Call Me Old Fashioned

by crazyskills on Jan.28, 2010 at 12:29.05 am, under stream of consciousness

but I really like shopping in 3d stores.

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