Wednesday, April 21, 2010

DIR command in XP does not display Chinese correctly in English Windows

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This is a very annoy issue I have just come across mistakenly believing XP being a Unicode OS and that its DIR command will display any char...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Instructions to set up Limited User Account in Windows 7

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This contains an excellent step-by-step instructions on how to: Disable the built-in administrator account and why it is best to leave it ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Copying Or Moving Subversion Repositories

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Recently, I had to replace the hard drive on which my collection of repositories live. Rather than using the subversion recommended way , I ...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

XP Control Panel Applet does not launch - a solution

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I was playing with a Virtual Machine containing a copy of XP SP3 and no matter which user account I was in, I could not launch the applet fr...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The figures are in - LUA is the best defence against attacks

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The key finding in the report by BeyondTrust on Microsoft's operating system and Office paints an unambiguous picture that LUA is the b...
Monday, March 22, 2010

The plight and suffering of modern photographer

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Have you ever noticed today's digital cameras have increased their resolution from a small 2M pixels to a whopping 9 or even higher reso...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Is this a joke - Apple iPhone & iPad's battery replacement policy

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Is Apple battery replacement policy is joke? When you send your iPad off to Apple, you aren't just getting your same ol' iPad bac...