Testing posting via Windows Live Writer.



Picture.... Etc.

Looks good.

 

But, it doesn't support all features apparently. Can't set subtitles, or hyperlink at the top... I'm sure there are more omissions. But handy for posting pictures, it will auto-thumbnail and upload to the FTP server.

Also doesn't seem to support sub-categories.. .that's a minus.

I guess I'll just use it for posts with pics.

My GMail password was stolen and my account taken over by Russian Hackers who tried to extort money out of me. This of course led me to ask HOW, on my system with my careful attitude to everything, they got hold of my password.

What I've found is that there are more security holes in software than even my paranoid mind suspected. I figured that a fully patched Vista, running Nod32 which is arguably the best antivirus around, Windows Defender, SpyBot S&D, a hardware firewall, firefox inste...

My GMail password was stolen earlier today.

Spent a bit of time trying to discern what happened, very little evidence. A couple of key points to note though about it which point me into a likely direction (and one program I won't ever be using again).

Any "risky" software I've run lately (very little) I submitted executables to some online virus-scanners that check for virii/trojans using 30 or more different security programs and any suspects I could come up with came up clean.

Here's...

(Yes this is correctly categorized as Politics... trust me, read on)

Blasted English Degree.

I can no longer enjoy just reading a news article anymore. Now I always notice when clueless authors use adjectives instead of adverbs. Such as this line:

"facts and figures now come cheaper and faster than ever before"

What is being modified by the adjectives Cheaper & Faster?

The facts and figures? If so, it should be worded:
"facts and figures are now cheaper and faster than ever befor...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36093/118/

Toshiba has ceased production of HD-DVD and will soon be switching over to Blu-Ray thanks to a joint venture it hedged with Samsung. This leaves Microsoft as the only big name left with HD-DVD on the xBox 360 (thankfully as an external addon, not internal). Obviously, they'll have to come out with a Blu-Ray player themselves soon, which will be quite a lump to swallow since it is a Sony format.

I have a 256mb ATI x850xt.

It gets a 5.9 rating from Vista.

It also CANNOT run DeskScapes on dual monitors. It seems someone decided not to pay attention to the fact that MOST OF THE ENTIRE FRICKING WORLD does NOT HAVE 512+mb video cards!

If you buy Ultimate based partly on expecting DeskScapes/DreamScene content, you better be willing to either operate on only one monitor (as many do), or invest in a top end video card also.

Maybe they decided nobody would want Ultimate without at l...

If you're into productivity, you may have been left wanting a little with Vista's new task switcher. The OSX folks have had Exposé for ages, and there are alternatives for XP users. However, Vista's new Desktop Window Manager is paying off - several alternative task switchers have shown up. Here's the first one I've found that does the job well. Simply called "Switcher", it is available here.

When you simply press either a predefined hotkey, or mouse over a hot corner of the screen, it zooms...

It's been a few weeks since my final upgrade to Vista. About 3 days after the upgrade, my router froze. I wasn't even sure what had happened, since the trusty Airlink AR525w had run solid since I first connected it 6 months ago when I moved into my current apartment. A power cycle got 'er going again. A couple of days later, it froze again. That day it froze 3 or 4 times. Since then, I've lost count of how many times the router froze.

Somehow, I just didn't want to blame Vista for this proble...

Turns out that Vista's DirectX 10 is not fully backwards compatible with DirectX 9, and Vista does not ship with the components required for all games that utilize DirectX 9.. Therefore, if you get any errors about missing DLL files from games when you try to run them in Vista (such as Medieval 2: Total War), then you'll have to actually download and install DirectX 9!

Just in case you need to do so - here's the link as of Feb 2007: DirectX Runtime Files

Calling something one thing when it is specifically NOT that thing.

For example - PODCAST. This is actually very clearly defined. A podcast is published through RSS feeds which direct the listener to a downloadable audio file which can then, and this is the really key part, be sync'd to their portable media player, generally an ipod, but others work.

What this means is - If the audio file you are offering is not available with an RSS feed, requires you to play it on the webpage through a j...

I tried, really I did. I wanted to get into the fanfic scene, but I am just too vanilla for it. I like those het fics that nobody else seems interested in, and I have a bit more of a literary bent.

So, now I'm kinda halfway regretting buying "seventhbook.com" in anticipation of the 7th book last year. I even spent countless hours customising eFiction to look completely unique to any other eFic site. Then I got bored.

Anybody interested in picking up the site and working on it? I haven't d...

Okay, so I have a LOT of files on a LOT of hard disks... One thing I discovered really quickly is that files with an other other than the current user will give problems. So one of the first steps on a new Vista system is to head off into the deep depths of many hard drives, and take "ownership" of all the files under your main user's name. This eliminates many of the UAC (User Account Control) Nag Screens... However, not all. Some refuse to go away, and just make no sense.

Take this for exam...

So iTunes breaks in Windows Vista, that is, if you have purchased iTunes music... Apple announces a patch soon after the Vista release, and says there will be a new version if iTunes in a "few weeks"...

Who do I blame here? MS? No.... they might have broken compatibility, yes. However, Apple has been able to get its hands on Vista for over a year, as has anybody in the public. The FINAL version of Vista has been available for several months - legally to anyone subscribed to the MS Dev Network...

One of the first things you'll notice with Vista are the new User Account Control dialogues. They can be exceedingly annoying, yet Microsoft has actually posted begging people NOT to turn it off.

However, if you are still using CRT's (and maybe this happens with some LCD screens), the dialogue is accompanied by a very jarring "re-synch" of the monitors. Every time that dialogue box comes up, my first monitor blinks, and my second monitor actually goes into a restart which takes 2 to 3 seconds...

Got Vista, and wouldn't you know it, got problems.


I'm just one of many, I know, but I might as well share with the world MY experience on Vista..


1) Initial install failed utterly. Vista told me it couldn't find a suitable partition. 'scuse me? I had just wiped 200gb on my XP drive, leaving XP on the first 120gb, and the rest of the drive clear. I ended up going back to XP, setting the second partition active, going back to Vista setup, and it let me install. Then it gave me "Error lo...