Tag: windows
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BeepAlive - keeping my soundbar from going to sleep
My dog ate the remote for the soundbar on my TV/media centre, and it keeps going into 'sleep mode'. So I wrote a software tool that periodically makes an inaudible noise to trick the soundbar into staying 'awake'. That's how a hacky engineer like me fixes a hardware problem with a software solution!
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Reply to: Deleting Systems You Don't Understand
Ibrahim Diallo shared his experience of deleting all his family PC's .ini files when he was 10, not knowing they were important, and compares it to what some developers do when they refactor-out something that seems insignificant. I reply with a story from early in my career...
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How to Set Up Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account in 2026
James Leighton's provided a quick one-liner to bypass the Windows 11 installer's latest efforts to insist on you having a Microsoft account. I don't anticipate having to install Windows again, but if I do I'll be using this.
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WSL9x
Hailey Somerville's managed to get something akin to WSL working on Windows 95. Who'd have even thought such a thing was possible?
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How an RM Nimbus Taught Me a Hacker Mentality
Thirty to thirty-five years ago, as a young and curious hacker, I broke out of the restrictions on my secondary school's computer lab and briefly achieved rockstar popularity amongst peers who, through my tools, could now play videogames instead of doing their coursework. But their interest in the results of my exploits were incompatible with my interest in the sheet joy of discovery... and, inevitably, this meant trouble.
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Window Tax
Britain and the Netherlands both had window taxes at various times. But the social and architectural effects were quite different.
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Bash+Batch In One File
A single file that can be executed in Bash, Zsh, Windows Command Prompt, and MS-DOS? Yup, and it's disgusting.
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Post-It Minesweeper
Dan implements a computer program to help him make a Post-It-based version of a computer program. Then sticks it to a computer.
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of System Tray Icons
What the fuck is that icon for? Despite the best efforts of icon designer to (apparently) make clear and comprehensible icons, and by computer users to learn and understand them, I still remain perplexed from time to time by the plethora of icons in my system tray (sorry, I mean Taskbar Notification Area). Let's take …
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Windows XP Multiuser Remote Desktop
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Windows XP Multiuser Remote Desktop.
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Windows XP Box
This is scary. This guy's managed to build a mini-ITX Windows XP box... inside a Windows XP box (by which I mean one of those boxes in which they ship copies of Windows XP). It's a full working computer (well, it runs Windows, but you know what I mean) inside the box that originally contained …