August 12, 2012

Curse you power management!!

Ok, help me understand something. When I go into Control Panel and set the Power Options so that my machine is Always On and to use as much power as possible to keep my machine running at full speed with my drives always spinning and my monitor always on, why do my network cards still go to sleep? And further more, who in the hell decided putting a network card to sleep was a way to save energy? Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, what the hell is that accomplishing? I kept noticing my Windows 7 machine would drop network connections. I set it to be on full power all the time. When I forced it to connect to a website, everything would "wake up" and all would be well again. Seems the network cards (Wifi and LAN) have a Power Management tab of their own and I had to disable the option of them going to sleep. What […]

July 19, 2012

Microsoft posts first loss in history of the company

Come on, we all knew this day would come. You can’t make $8-10 billion a quarter forever, something has to give. Considering how much cash MS has on hand and how much they make per year, a loss of $500 million is a drop in the bucket. Gates and Ballmer probably have that much in their sofa cushions. I see this as a good thing. The expectation that Microsoft can keep making more and more per quarter is just completely unrealistic. If you make $10 million a year, there is plenty of room for growth, but when you make $10 billion a quarter, where is the growth potential? MS is pretty tapped out at this point. They need to ease back, lower their goals and expectations to something a little achievable and move forward. Apple has seen explosive growth, and so has Google, but nothing lasts forever. There is a ceiling for everything. I think Yahoo should be a vivid […]

June 26, 2012

Norton Internet Security 2012 Drops in Price Yet Again

NIS 2012 has dropped in price yet again. At $21.50 I bought another copy so I can have the CD key for next year when I need to renew it. You can either get the digital version and download it immediately, or buy the CD and keep it for later. Norton Internet Security 2012 – 1 User 3PC – $21.50 Norton Internet Security 2012 3User [Download] – $21.50

April 30, 2012

My machine has soiled it pantaloons

Ok, this is ridiculous. My Windows 7 machine has completely crapped itself and it seems hundreds of people have run into this problem. It boots just fine, but when it gets to the login screen, it goes black and there is no way to log in. You can see the cursor and move it around, but there is no way to get to a desktop. There is no way to get past it or get into the machine from Safe Mode. I’m not entirely sure how to fix this. Like I said, dozens of people have written about this and the solutions range from reformatting, to swapping out DLL’s, to disconnecting USB drives, to virus problems. Great, this should be fun to fix.

April 24, 2012

VirtualBox Cannot register the image because UUID already exists

I’ve ran into a snag with VirtualBox. I made some images on my work laptop and when I try to load them on my home desktop machine I run into the following error: Cannot register the image ‘C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso’ with UUID ‘{4a16c3ed-691e-4878-9576-d1113bc5a699}’ because a ‘C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso’ with UUID {…} already exists It turns out the Guest Additions ISO is loaded for one of the images, but I have no idea which one since UUIDs mean nothing to me. Basically, the Virtual Machine won’t load and there doesn’t seem to be a whole you can do about it from the UI. After doing some digging I believe I have a way to get around the problem quite easily. Go into the directory where the Virtual Machine file is located and open the .VBOX file. It’s an XML and is easily read by an editor such as Notepad++. Look for the line: <HardDisk uuid="{4a16c3ed-691e-4878-9576-d1113bc5a699}" location="Windows 2008.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/> as in this example: […]

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