Roberto Luongo, Trevor Linden and the rest of the Canucks put in an outstanding 2nd and 3rd period to squeak out a 4-1 win against the Dallas Stars. This was really a 2-1 game as Pyatt and Smolinski potted a couple of empty net goals with about 90 seconds to go.
The Canucks finally […]
Archive for April, 2007
Visual Studio 2005 on Vista Requires Admin Rights
Published April 18th, 2007 in Development, Microsoft and Security. 0 CommentsI finally got the chance today to get back to working on PowerTray, this time with my Visual Studio 2005 installation on my Virtualized Windows Vista setup. The first thing I ran into was this warning dialog:
To me, this is the kind of issue that shows immaturity in the OS. Though it is possible […]
Lets Get Virtual!
Published April 15th, 2007 in Admin Tools, MacBook, Technology, Utilities and Virtualization. 0 CommentsSeveral months ago I picked up a new machine, a MacBook, from which the bast majority of these blog posts have flowed. I absolutely love my MacBook and I can see myself becoming a regular Mac user with future computer purchases. That said, for about the past 15 years, I’ve been a devout Windows […]
Apple Delays Leopard until October
Published April 12th, 2007 in Tech News and Technology. 0 CommentsIn a somewhat expected move, Apple announced today that their much anticipated next-generation OS will be delayed past the promised “Spring 2007” ship date. Speculation was that the new version of Mac OS X codenamed “Leopard” would be released during Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference in June. Ironically, this message is also […]
Some crazy Canucks fans have put up a website to give away a Canucks’ Jersey for every Canucks’ win in the Playoffs. The tradeoff? A few product-centric emails from their sponsors.
Since all the emails should be coming from the guys that run the site (in this case a “friend of a friend”) I feel […]
Getting WGET for OS X 10.4.x
Published April 3rd, 2007 in Admin Tools, Development, Open Source, Tech Tips and Utilities. 4 Comments !!! Geek Alert !!!
Sometime ago Apple removed the tool wget from the OS X toolset and replaced it with the arguably more powerful curl tool. This new tool is great, and it has many new advanced features that the older wget tool lacks. However curl has one thing against it: it’s somewhat […]
Today, EMI and Apple announced the availability of the entire 5 Million song EMI catalog on iTunes DRM Free. This is the first major step towards a DRM free music Universe.
This undoubtedly was affected by Steve Jobs’ open letter to the 4 Major RIAA partners, and is an extremely important development in the […]
Here’s a quick tip that will be a bit un-intuitive at first for those of you converting to Windows, but makes life much easier once you get used to it.
If you have a file that isn’t automatically associated with a particular program, or you want to open it with a different app than usual, […]
