Archive for August, 2004

Windows XP SP2

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now available via windows update. Although is was reported to be available sooner it was only a restricted distribution. Problems you are most likely to encounter are with the Firewall. You may find that some of your programs stop working, these will most likely be the ones [...]

Comment Spamming Little Fucker

I have just had to go through and delete 69 comments on various posts as some little shit decided to spam my posts. So they get placed higher in the ranks of google, so what. 69 comments all from the same person. That pisses me off.

Ad-Aware SE

A new version of Ad-Aware has been released. The improved scanning engine can find more little nasties on your system. I ran the old version with the latest updates, followed by the new version. I found an extra 60 nasties.
DOWNLOAD it now. Its free. If your machine is feeling sluggish run it. There is a [...]

Shocking statistic

I was browsing through the Web Builder(Issue 5) section of .net magazine (Issue 127 September 2004), when I saw a statistic on screen resolutions people use whilst surfing the web.
I normally use a screen resolution of 1280×1024 on my desktop, 1024×768 on my laptop. With the state of screen technology today, I believed [...]

NTL now faster :)

I noticed today that those kind folk at NTL have finally decided to speed up my connection. I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a while but with no confirmed date it came as a bit of a surprise. My 600k line is now a 750k line and its not costing me anymore [...]