Shout out to Jeff from JBTech for reminding me about the release of 8.1. I’ve been running Windows 8 for a while and I recently successfully got a Hackintosh running. So lately I’ve been on my Hackintosh rather than my Windows 8 machine. You won’t find the update in Windows Update. It’s actually found in…
Last night I got a BSOD with an error called DPC_Watchdog_Violation. I searched for it and many claim it might have something to do with my SSD and its firmware being old. I’m running a SanDisk Extreme SDSSDX240GG25 with firmware R112. Apparently it’s an old version so I decided to update it. I installed the…
Windows 8 is here and Microsoft is offering multiple editions (again). I never thought I would be one of those who would buy the wrong version on accident but this time around I ended up making the mistake. Maybe this is why Microsoft releases so many different versions. Why can’t they be like Apple when…
I have a RAID10 and 2 other hard drives installed on my PC. I was trying to format one of non-RAID HDD but it wouldn’t let me in Windows. So I booted off of the Windows 7 DVD and formatted it that way. I didn’t continue the installation after I formatted the HDD. I made…
At work we use iMacs for workstations but Windows for servers. There are some nuisance when sending files from OS X to Windows. Filename lengths, network connections, hidden files – just to name a few. In OS X, there are hidden files that start with ._ which become visible when viewed in Windows. It’s usually…
Check out this video http://www.freesmug.org/video/vista/TheRealVista1.mov. The audio was taking from a Windows Vista preview show, I’m guessing. With a possible 1GB memory requirement on the upcoming OS, why not just get a Mac? Well that’s a whole different conversation. Just thought I’d share since I found it funny. Oh by the way, one of the…