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28 November 2012 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Wordpress 2.0 needs some code changes to fix warnings that appears with PHP 5.3
7 November 2012 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
First impression review of Windows 8 with pros and cons (and fixes). A meeting between a software developer and Microsoft Windows 8.
26 November 2011 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
MCE gives error message about it cannot play video, but Windows Media Player (WMP) works fine.
24 February 2011 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Microsoft have released the first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. It should be available through Windows Update.
There are the following notable changes for the Windows 7 users:
Improved HDMI Audio Performance.
Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), which allows use of 256 bit registers on newer processors.
Improved Support for Advanced Format (512e) Storage [...]
16 February 2011 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Created a new website SnakeNest.com, where I'm planning to release the different small projects I'm working on.
Have now released the tail utility SnakeTail, that is also able to tail Windows EventLogs. No administrator rights are needed and it has faster startup than the standard Windows EventLog Viewer.
26 September 2009 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Have now put up a Windows 7 Service Guide, with a lot of help from the BlackViper.com website. It is pretty much the existing Vista Service Guide with some extra services (19 services in total).
Also added two small Win7 tips:
Configure the taskbar in Windows 7. Credits WinGeek.com
Make sidebar and gadgets work with UAC disabled. Credits [...]
22 May 2009 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
First the important news, exactly one month ago (22 april) my girlfriend gave birth to my beautiful daughter Kia. Now most of the things in my life have a different priority than before.
In other news Microsoft have released the second service pack for their infamous Windows Vista. Right now it is only available for MSDN [...]
23 December 2008 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Had planned a small before-christmas vacation, but this was suddenly changed when the news arrived about my webhost provider had gone bankrupt. Have now been busy restoring the website on another webhost and started the domain transfer. It seems I was lucky with getting hold of the Auth-code, so the domain should be transferred within [...]
1 November 2008 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
First the new articles added:
Added Vista Tip about how to analyze boot time performance using the Windows Performance Toolkit.
Added WinXP Tip about faster Start-menu navigation using search functionality. Credits LifeHacker.com
Added Vista Tip about the special "All Tasks" folder. Credits ItsMyWindows.com
Added Windows Tip about the shell-keyword, and how it can be used to quickly access common [...]
2 October 2008 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Have spent the last few months writing a few articles for CodeProject.com. During this time the collection of unpublished tips have been growing. Here is a few to start with:
Added Vista Tip about how to run programs elevated without UAC prompt. Credits HowToGeek.com
Added Vista Tip about how to change the OEM branding of the Welcome [...]
15 June 2008 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
I changed from Windows 2000 to Vista some time ago, and low and behold Vista uses a wee bit more disk space. Sadly enough the system partition is only 15 GByte, so it is a "daily" struggle to keep disk usage down (Especially when SP1 had to be installed). Right now there is 2 GByte [...]
27 May 2008 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Microsoft have made Vista even more stable with SP1 (though the major contributor is probably Vista ready drivers), and have at the same time given XP some love by collecting all patches released since SP2 into a single tested SP3 package.
Vista SP1 introduces a new Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol service, which allows VPN over SSL [...]
29 November 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Windows Vista includes support of several new network features if they are available on the network interface card (also possible with Win2k3 SP2). One of the new features is the Receive-side Scaling (RSS), which actually solves the issue of MMCSS needing to throttle network traffic, as it offloads the handling of interrupts and DPC to [...]
30 October 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Seems a lot of people like to save hard-disk space using NTFS compression, but accidently also compresses the boot manager files so it fails to boot.
Have added some articles about the Vista Boot Manager and system recovery:
Configuration of the boot manager entries which also includes two free utilities that are easier to use than BCDEdit.
Windows [...]
5 October 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Have now upgraded the bbPress forum to ver. 0.83, eventhough it is marked as an update to be compatible with Wordpress 2.3 then it still works fine with WP 2.0.
Have also modified the Wordpress blog search, so now it displays the categories which contains matching posts (This is also used when showing posts with a [...]
22 September 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Wordpress 2.3 is about to be released and introduces new features, and I have (like many) been looking forward to the new flexible taxonomy system, which should properly handle post-categories, link-categories and tags all together. Therefore I made a test upgrade to see if I had to make any changes to adapt my WP 2.0 [...]
6 September 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Yesterday this website was taken down because it was accused of hosting files, which violated copyright restrictions. The program that triggered this situation was TweakNT, which allows one to change a Workstation-edition of Windows into a Server-edition.
Dritte haben uns mitgeteilt, dass auf Ihrem Server http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/files/tweaknt.zip unautorisiertes Angebot zum Download vorgehalten wird. In dem Angebot sind [...]
1 September 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Was looking at the possibility of mounting a FTP drive as a network drive, and found that there was several things in this area I didn't know.
Mapping FTP server as a network drive letter
Mapping WebDAV folder as a network drive letter
Adding FTP server / WebDAV folder as a network place
Note if using a Gmail account, [...]
28 August 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Have now configured a news feed which is a mashup of different news sources about Microsoft Windows. It is now much easier to follow multiple news sites without needing to shovel through advertisements.
Added Ext2 / Ext3 file system driver to Windows Utilities.
Added Changing the font of the command prompt to Command Prompt Tips. Credits Duffblog.
Added [...]
17 July 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
The initial list of Windows Vista services is now ready. Have been borrowing a lot from the following places:
ITsVista.com - Good description of the services beyond the one-liner from Microsoft, but doesn't have description for all the services yet.
BlackViper.com - Complete list of all services with serveral configuration recommendations, but not much description of why.
The [...]
5 July 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Discovered how to activate gzip compression for WP-Cache in IIS, so now the pages should be quicker to load.
Updated Internet Explorer Tip about how Reset Internet Explorer Settings can be used to remove branding for IE7.
Added Vista Netwok Tip about how to configure the MTU size.
Added Vista Security Tip about how to restrict access to [...]
2 July 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Have been checking the 404 errors, and have fixed a few redirects. Also confirmed my fear of performance problems when using shared web-hosting, as there was a short moment of 5 minutes where all page request took 15 secs. or more to load (WP-Cache or not).
Added some new articles that have been lying in my [...]
1 July 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Have been playing around with the blog software Wordpress, and have become so impressed by its functionality, that I have now converted the entire site into a blog. It was quite easy to use this blogging system as a Content Management System (CMS).
For me it gives the following benefits:
Can re-design / optimize the entire site [...]
25 April 2007 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Have started working on a blog here at smallvoid.com, and I'm now slowly working on moving all the contents to the blog. Take a sneak peek if you can guess the URL to the blog.
Updated WinNT+ Command Prompt Tip with details of how to start a command prompt with administrator rights. Credits Winhelponline.com
Added Windows Tweak [...]
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23 December 2006 by Snakefoot | | Trackback Off
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone, and hopefully you will enter the new year with a full stomach.
Added new theme Zune signed by Microsoft. Credits Microsoft
Added Internet Explorer Tip about how to increase the HTTP upload speeds. Credits jsifaq.com
Added WinNT Install Tip about how to open a command prompt during the install.
Added [...]