Archives for August 2007

Entering the Land of BSOD Investigation

Every day upon booting my Vista workstation at work I was getting a message that the system recovered from an unexpected shutdown. I figured that someone was just powering my PC off at night, but I decided to check the logs. It appeared that Windows was crashing right after I left work. I went off [...]

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Windows Vista Product Activation is Retarded

I recently have been having some troubles with my main hard drive: a Western Digital WD1200JB drive. The drive will randomly spin up and down when the drive is in use. The unmistakable “whine” of it spinning down and back up randomly can be heard quite clearly. If I am in a game and it [...]

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