Archive for 2010


What the hell is with Zune’s Animating Taskbar Text?

What. The. Hell?

Thanks Zune. After getting rid of the annoying, distracting, attention-grabbing taskbar text animations in the 3.x series, Zune 4.x now brings it back in force, with no obvious way to disable it.
Every time the text changes, my attention is drawn to the taskbar. This isn’t remotely cool. This is distracting. [...]

Formula One Refuelling Ban: Worst. Race. Ever.

Well done guys, you broke the spectacle pretty comprehensively.
Bahrain was a boring track at the best of times. Adding bumpy corners that extend a lap is not really that cool to watch.
But now, with no refuelling… there is no strategy. It’s a freakin’ train.
It had better get better soon. Otherwise, F1 will have squandered the [...]

Why Macs are better than PC’s

Because they never crash, because they don’t have bugs like Micro$oft Windoze.

On a fresh install of Tiger, with all updates, I get this crash every 30 mins or so. I have no non-Apple software installed.
I was at a friend’s house last weekend, and he has become quite the fanboi. He demonstrated his Mac to [...]

how to convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk in 5 minutes without data loss

This afternoon, STARSCREAM, my trusty Windows 2003 server, breathed his final breath. He was due to be replaced but I did not yet have all the parts to build a new server. Sad times.
One of the big problems with which I was immediately faced is this: due to being an idiot, I had made several [...]