Having access to the Windows Vista Beta 2 bits, I decided to take a look at the system recovery options. This isn’t your Windows 2000/XP recovery console: it is a full blown version of WinPE or should I say WinRE. The list of options given are these: Startup Repair – Automatically fix problems that prevent [...]
Archives for May 2006
Vongo is a No Go
After seeing a commercial on the service “Vongo” on TV, I decided to sign up. It’s a service that lets you download an unlimited number of movies to your PC and play them for $9.99 a month. I picked the PPV option since that lets you browse the movie selection for free (apparently, you cannot [...]
Theme Music from News TV Shows
I don’t know why this fascinates me, but this web site hosts the intro/ending background music (and the stories of said music) for major news TV shows like Dateline, Prime Time Live, 20/20, Today, etc. In fact I have the theme music on loop for Prime Time Live right now and it’s driving me crazy! [...]
BeyondLogic: Another Sysinternals Type Web Site
After testing the latest version of VNCScan (which is much improved since my last entry on it…they encrypt the local administrator password now instead of storing it in cleartext), I saw they were using beyondexec instead of psexec. This piqued my interest, so I went and did a Google search on “beyondexec” and it lead [...]
Interesting Fun with Microsoft Access MDB Files
I got a call from a user today having problems opening a MDB file. It appears this file was from a government organization on the West Coast responsible for air quality control. I went to the web site the user gave me and no where does it state what version of Access you need to [...]
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