Tuesday 9 February 2010 @ 10:06 pm
I got this tip from the
Monday 16 November 2009 @ 11:42 am
So, for those of you that don’t know me well, suffice it to say, I have less than no sense of direction. I always manage to make my way home, but often with a lot of zigs and zags. So, why should this morning be any different. After arriving in LA around rush [...]
Wednesday 19 August 2009 @ 12:56 pm
Yesterday, someone asked me if I had a chance to install Windows 7 on my Lenovo W500 notebook computer. Well, I said yet, three times. It started when Windows 7 Beta came out. My Vista had gotten sufficiently slow that I decided I needed to reinstall something. Being the adventurous type, I [...]
Saturday 15 August 2009 @ 8:38 am
I like this term I keep hearing (repaved) which means that I’ve wiped out all the information on my computer and reinstalled the operating system. The interesting thing about the term is that there actually is a term. As a software guy, one of the fears I have is that problems that I [...]
Friday 7 August 2009 @ 10:30 am
Well, somehow, yesterday when I tried to download from facebook, and
Thursday 2 July 2009 @ 10:02 am
So, if you run a notebook with different monitor configurations, you may find yourself unable to find a program you launched to a different monitor previously. Happened to me with NotePad++ today. So, in Vista, you would right click on the taskbar program, choose move, then use the arrow keys to [...]
Saturday 27 June 2009 @ 6:02 pm
So, sometimes I feel like “how did I get myself here”. If you pushed some buttons and didn’t realize you did something, you may find your directory view looks like the following: Well, to clear it, all you have to do is put your cursor at the very bottom of [...]
Saturday 27 June 2009 @ 7:37 am
I’ve finally moved my Lenovo W500 over to Windows 7 RC. What motivated me was my wireless networking was getting really really unstable. Sometimes it would connect, other times it would not, and it never seemed to want to work at starbucks anymore. So, here I am, and so far, vary happy. [...]
Saturday 28 February 2009 @ 8:54 pm
I’ve been using
Sunday 15 February 2009 @ 2:44 pm
(Microsoft recently sent me two DVD’s (a 32bit and a 64bit). Since I have a 64bit machine with 4gig of RAM, I figure I should test the 64bit. So, here we go. The Installation Process If you have ever installed a Microsoft OS before, the steps are basically the same. Put the disk [...]
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