To anticipate and prevent
Its really strange, I knew windows had “execution protection” in Win2K3 — but I’ve never ever seen it “in action”. Well thats changed — I guess steam wanted to launch something that windows didn’t like — and stopped it. A nice little box poped up giving a brief explination of what was going on. (Then…
Its nice to have my iPod in sync again with iTunes for the first time in months. Due to apple being retarted — my iTunes was previously screwed to all hell. Then of course iTunes 6 doesn’t work on linux (so far that I can tell). Now that I’m back to windoze, I can run…
Your probably looking at the title with a bit of shell shock — after weeks of linux posts, I’m talking about windows. Not only that, the very same laptop that was running debian is running Windows 2003 Standard with Service Pack 1. Yea, I couldn’t handle it any more — I need to play games…
Well I downloaded a trial of Cross Over Office and gave it a spin — I have to say I’m impressed. Its technology that works. I installed IE6 w/o any effort on my part. I also installed iTunes 4.7, though I was hoping for something slightly newer. Then I tried some non-free software — —…
Problems seem to be showing up with Cedega. It appears to be a really small outfit — and they are ambitiously trying to support alot of games. Now thats honerable and all — for a very small fee… But… The software just doesnt work — at least not for me. Lots of people seem to…
A friend of mine sugested trying out Cedega (based on wine) so I did — looked like a cool app and for only 5$ a month its worth it. Only problem is that I didn’t have 3D acceleration (or opengl for that matter) working yet. I skimmed around for a bit and found a most…