wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: February, 2003

Untitled

Like we didn’t suspect this already: running windows update sends microsoft a list of *all* your installed software according to this article. I suppose the next logical step is a kazaa virus to delete anything that looks hacked.

Untitled

Rest in peace, Mister Rogers.

Untitled

Some handy java study notes for the SCJP exam. Plus a handy intro to counting in octal and hex.

Untitled

Last night, the master boot record of my Windows 2000 install became corrupted. Of course, the OS didn’t have the good sense to tell me this. I had to figure it out by myself. But repairing it was easy enough. You just boot from with Win2K CD, launch the “recovery console” [just a DOS prompt, [...]

Untitled

If you like old time radio but don’t have broadband, you can get mp3 CDs of most everything from otrcat.com. If you do have broadband, check out knotted note radio (I’ve mentioned this site before, but it’s worth repeating). I’m fairly obsessed with Suspsense, The Whistler, and Michael Shayne at the moment. Home computing and [...]