nLite

July 31st, 2008 § 0

I re-installed Windows XP on my Macbook yesterday, but I done two things different. The first thing I done different was using XP Pro, rather than home, which makes little difference to me, but it does give me the chance to use other weird and wonderful features I don’t typically use.

The second thing I done different was by using nLite. nLite allows you to customize your Windows XP install, by adding and removing certain settings and combining service packs. For example I used nLite to combine SP3, remove IE, WMP, messenger, other random stuff, drivers I don’t use, services I don’t want on, set the default theme to classic, disable hibernation, disable system restore, disable automatic updates, set the systems location and time zone, and slipstreamed the serial into the main install. It also patched the install to allow custom themes and the TCP hack for torrenting.

It was surprisingly easy to do and setup, which was good and I’ll use this disc for a long time. M*A*S*H is on now so have to go :P.

Comic Mash Up

July 28th, 2008 § 1

Thought I’d have a go at making a comic / art feature. I thought I would mash up a few pictures and famous people, mix a few things together and see what happens. I suck at being creative but here it goes.

Ps, For the people that don’t know the other guy is Linus Torvalds, he’s jesus of the Linux wonderland. FreeBSD will rule.

Update, made a typo :P

Boredom can get the best of us

July 24th, 2008 § 0

The picture to the left shows what can happen when you get bored. 6 by 4 A4 pages. Photoshop to scale up the ascii and make a PNG and PosteRazor to print it over the multiple pages.

All in all, a good job IMOH.

Now Selling

July 23rd, 2008 § 4

I’m selling 5 untuned tuning forks to the highest bidder. You know you want one.

School

July 22nd, 2008 § 3

So, I thought I would try out google documents at school to see how it runs and to show some people it. To my surprise, google documents is blocked. BLOCKED.

I’m seriously, what is google documents going to do to hurt the user, the schools network, peers around or staff. It’s google documents. It’s made to be used in various locations, and is a free replacement for Office.

This is just madness.

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