Recent Comments
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Loading a registry hive for a computer that no longer boots
So the question came up today of how to export some keys from a system that doesn’t boot anymore. I think I learned this trick from a document by Jeffrey Belt on the shell team, but here’s the official documentation. … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet
Leave a comment
Using Visual Studio 2005 as the postmortem debugger
I often set windbg as the post-mortem debugger (run windbg -IS to make it happen), but today we wanted to use Visual Studio. Here’s what we needed to do: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug] "Debugger"="vsjitdebugger.exe -p %ld" "Auto"="1" … Continue reading
Posted in Debugging with VS
Leave a comment
VW Woes – Resolution
OK – too busy moving to say much, but we have the car back, it’s running, everything is fixed except that we didn’t worry about the relocking (they found the issue, and it costs more to fix than I care … Continue reading
Posted in Rambling
Leave a comment
VW Woes
I’ve had my VW for about 5 years now and haven’t had too many problems with it. Had to replace the rotors (did you know there’s no brake sensor on certain configurations in a VW?). Also had an electrical issue, … Continue reading
Posted in Rambling
Leave a comment
WMI Tools
So I’ve been learning about some other tools for visualizing WMI. Most of them are centered around getting you some WMI code to run. That’s great, and I might eventually add some features like that, but I think that WMI … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet
Leave a comment
Moving this weekend… WMI, codeplex
Things are slowing down on a few of my projects right now (this blog being one of them). We’re getting ready to move into our house this weekend. It’s funny, despite the huge amount of work that’s required it still … Continue reading
Posted in shell
Leave a comment
Kanoodle makes me .33$
Well after a little bit, putting Kanoodle adds on my blog has made me .33$. Most of my readers are using RSS and they don’t show up there, so there are very few impressions anyway. But still – 33 cents … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet
Leave a comment
Battlefield 2142 With a Dash of Spyware – Kotaku
Here’s more interesting news along the lines of Apple shipping a virus; EA ships spyware. But they did it deliberately. I have to give them credit for drawing attention to it so that users can be aware of the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet
Leave a comment
Opening Pandora’s box
http://www.pandora.com/ is a great service that helps you find great new music and supplies you with plenty of high-quality internet radio listening. I use it all the time. In addition to the regular stuff, I enjoy bands like Moxy Fruvous. Anyway, … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Leave a comment
Whoa! Apple ships a windows virus
Apple Computer announced on Tuesday that a small number of video iPods released after Sept. 12 carry a Windows virus… Creative Labs had a similar problem a few years ago. Crazy. Be careful plugging in that new ipod.
Posted in Computers and Internet
Leave a comment
