Archive For March 3rd, 2004

"Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied"

Sometimes Windows can surprise you. I’m fixing up a PC that was infested with over a dozen dialers and spyware apps, and over 100 suspicious registry keys (thank you Adaware!) After I cleaned out the machine I couldn’t bring up the display properties. I would get the above error message! Thanks to this page I [...]

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Pic of the Day – Go Away!!!

Good photo that’d be much better if it had been rotated just a teensy bit to the left. Hope he used a zoom to get so close..

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The House is Mine!

Contracts are signed, and I’ll be getting the keys on the 19th! I think that calls for a celebration this weekend! As Niall on #linux said, Moving house, as a life experience, is up there with divorce and bereavement on the stress scales. While I didn’t get a divorce, the last year has been rough. [...]

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