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I find that often when it comes to UAC (User Account Control) prompts in Windows Visa some of these prompts are confusing. On occasions I’ve been fooled into acepting a UAC prompt that I really didn’t want to - and other times I’ve been completely baffled by what I’m being asked. Read more »

There’s little more exciting than a new operating system relase… Read more »

Any work you have to do to collate infomation destined for a log is wasted effort if that logging is switched off or otherwise configured such that your log message will never be output. Read more »

I’ve been banging my head against the desk for months with sound / mouse / video stutters in Vista (x64) Ultimate Edition that would come and go. The cause and solution astounded me - so I thought I would post them here. Read more »

I can only imagine that Steve Jobs himself has read my blog, found the reference I made to the iTunes / Vista x64 / iPod Touch combo not working, and fixed it in iTunes 7.6. Hoorah!

Here’s a list of the wonderful tech gifts I got for Christmas. Read more »

If you receive the following error when opening an .chm file that you’ve downloaded from the internet:

Navigation to the webpage was cancelled.

Try opening the property pages for the help file and clicking ‘Unblock’. This fixes this problem for me.

A few months ago I inadvertently tried to burn my friend’s house down by covering his router while it was on, and leaving it all day while he and his girlfriend were at work. Apparently - when he returned home and logged in to check his mail (or whatever) his internet connection seemed to be down. It quickly transpired that my failed arson attempt was to blame, as the duvet that had been left covering the router was lifted to reveal a hot, soft D-Link DSL-G624T and a large scorch mark on both the duvet and the chair beneath it. The router was hot, dead and my friend without internet access. Read more »

If you run rdesktop with the -f option while running compiz fusion on Ubuntu you will find that the rdesktop session appears on all of your desktops like this:

Indeed - no matter which desktop you switch to, you will be presented with your remote desktop session. Read more »

By exporting your font and color settings from Viual Studio to a .vssettings file, you can create ‘themes’ for visual studio. Quite nice if you miss that old Borland Turbo C++ editor. I’ve created a page of themes here.