http://www.cbulock.com/cat/computers.html Computers and computer related posts http://www.cbulock.com/cameron.jpg http://www.cbulock.com/cat/computers.html 87 95 Copyright 2003-2009 en-us cbulock@cbulock.com 2009-02-05T20:44:53-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/drm_woes.html I am not someone who is exactly against DRM, for the most part I don't mind it. I buy stuff from the Apple Store all the time and haven't been too affected by the DRM. I did encounter some issues with it today however. Though, overall, it hasn't been too bad, I was annoyed by what I did deal with. I installed a new CPU in my computer yesterday finally. Last year I purchased tons of new parts for my computer, but I kept the same CPU I had previously. I now have replaced my older Pentium D dual core with a Q9400 quad core chip. This is a massive improvement and am very happy with it. However, I have came up with two DRM issues that I believe are related to the change in hardware on my machine. It seems to be likely that the DRM is using the serial number in the CPU as at least one identifier. 612@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2009-02-05T20:44:53-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2008/01/computer_issues.html My desktop has reached the two year old mark now. Though, it's been non-operational for the last month. A while back my DVD burner died, but it wasn't the end of the world. I was backing up a lot of files to it at the time and my have over-worked it. It was, after all, the generic burner Dell gives out. At some point, I ended up subscribing to Netflix and along with that started to make copies of all the decent movies I rented. This was fine at first, I have 1.3TB of space on that machine. Though it may seem like a lot of space, once you account for the porn and all those DVD ISO's, it goes away quick. 566@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2008-01-28T21:46:06-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/03/changing_the_windows_vista_boot_options.html If you tried to install Windows Vista and weren't successful, you may have had a issue where you have a new boot loader that tries to install Vista over and over. Here's the issue, Windows traditionally has used a boot.ini file to control the boot options for Windows. If you have more than one version, you could configure this file to load different versions. In XP, you could also change some of the settings for this file in the System properties under the 'Advanced' tab and by clicking on 'Settings' under the 'Startup and Recovery' section. 424@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-03-25T23:47:50-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/11/infected.html Ugh. Found out last night that my computer is infected with a virus. I tried opening the command prompt in Windows XP and it promptly closed by itself. After a reboot, it did give me some MS-DOS 16-bit subsystem illegal error of some kind. 378@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-11-20T14:02:23-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/03/why_does_pc_support_stink_too_many_pebkac_issues.html I have never heard of this clown before, but he is apparently "in the industry". Charles Cooper from CNet decided to ask the question, "Why does PC support stink?". He is under the impression that his support issues with Symantec are all Symantecs fault and are a prime example of the tech support field. 297@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-03-04T08:59:09-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/01/laptop_is_back.html I finally got my laptop back on Friday. They replaced the motherboard and everything is working fine now. I am so happy. Haven't really been online much though as I had been fairly busy this weekend. Hopefully I will be able to catch up lost time with the computer shortly though. 282@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-01-30T18:41:40-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/01/no_computer_still.html Yea, in case you were wondering, I still do not have my laptop back. They said 5-10 days. That was 16 days ago. :( :( :crying: 281@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-01-26T22:03:16-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/01/no_laptop.html I have just completed nearly a week with limited personal computer usage. I am still using a computer all the time at work, but we have been so busy that I never have any free time to just surf and do personal things. Execpt for tonight. We finally aren't busy. 280@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-01-16T20:43:47-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2004/12/speed_up_firefox.html Just tried out this trick to speed up Firefox and it works great. It actually does work real well and I think is the same thing that makes Opera feel so quick. If you have a high-speed connection, you should try it out.The trick can be found here:http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php 270@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2004-12-27T09:10:46-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2004/12/google_now_has_a_liveseach_google_suggest.html Much like the Livesearch feature I am using on this website, Google has now setup this same feature. This only makes sense since the Livesearch was based on Google's Gmail address search. Not only that, Google has a better reason to have this feature, since search is it's main job. Presenting, Google Suggest. 263@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2004-12-10T20:31:09-05:00