Bus error: Jake Billo’s weblog

To install the final version of Windows Live Messenger 9 (14.0.8089.726) on Server 2003 and XP Pro 64-bit, please visit Steven’s instructions at pyro.eu.org/how-to/windows-live-messenger-2009-msi/. The instructions below are provided for historical curiosity only – they’re now out of date since Microsoft blocks this beta version of WLM from connecting.

There is no good reason this shouldn’t [...]

FreeCommander is a Windows utility similar to Midnight Commander on *nix systems. Check it out if you’re into heavy or repetitive filesystem operations.
I’ve often used ExplorerXP on Windows systems to provide a better version of Windows Explorer for file management, but I’ve recently had issues with file rename and copy operations. FreeCommander has filled this gap [...]

Over the past few days this site has had a ridiculous number of hits outside its ordinary audience. This seems to be due to two particular referrals at the same time, both referencing my post on Leopard showing networked PC’s with blue screens of death:

Unfortunately, the StumbleUpon community seems to be somewhere around the Digg [...]

Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to achieve the proverbial “holy grail” of display resolutions with my Sony KF-42E200A television. These series of TV’s also go by the series name E2000; the A in E200A indicates the Canadian model of this set. They use LCD rear projection technology, and are nearly deprecated in [...]