Home
RSS

Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Space Invaders turns 30

By on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 | 8 Comments

I wouldn’t normally write about stuff like this, but I grew up with Space Invaders and I think it changed the video gaming world as we know it today. Well, it actually was the very beginning. Space Invaders? was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in June 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by [...]

Read More...

See non present devices in Device manager (XP)

By on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

When I’m troubleshooting a Windows XP machine, I find myself almost always going into Device Manager to check the status of hardware devices. But what if you want to find out information about devices that aren’t connected eg USB based devices? Try this: 1. Go to Start, right-click My Computer, and select Properties. 2. In [...]

Read More...

Sawed off USB key

By on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | No Comments

WTF? Here’s a cool project I found that uses one of those slimline USB keys and a USB cable to make a cool and unique USB drive that you hopefully won’t lose. There’s no real point to doing this other than to kill some time customizing your computer gear. It certainly look unique. Here’s the [...]

Read More...

No windows button? How to lock XP

By on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | No Comments

A common way to lock your computer (assuming you are running XP) is to hit the Windows + L key simultaneously. But what if you don’t have a Windows key on your keyboard? There are a couple of other ways to do it: My choice is to create a shortcut on your desktop as you [...]

Read More...

Vista TCPIP has reached the connection limit error

By on Friday, March 14th, 2008 | No Comments

Running P2P applications in Vista and ever see this message coming up? In your event viewer, the exact wording is ‘TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts’. Microsoft has implemented a change in the TCP/IP stack since XP SP2 to limit the number of ‘half-open’ (incomplete/syn packets) [...]

Read More...
« Older Entries
Newer Entries »