codyg1985’s Think Tank

Note: The following is an account of my experiences with Windows Vista, and may or may not reflect the general consensus of users’ experiences with Windows Vista. I will not deny that the cause of the following problems may not be Windows Vista at all, but my hardware setup. I hope to […]

Continuing the series of programs that have issues with Windows Vista (or vice versa if you look at it that way), I played Sim City 4: Rush Hour (will just call it SC4 from here on out here) on my upgraded Windows Vista Beta 2 installation. The game runs, but the graphic rendering in […]

I upgraded my Windows XP installation to the publically-available Windows Vista Beta 2, and now Daemon Tools, a virtual CD image mounting program, (version 4.03) does not work. Posts on a thread on the official Daemon Tools forums and this blog post suggest installing an older version of Daemon Tools (version 3.02).
To install Daemon […]

After switching my hosting to Linux (which I should have done from the beginning), any blog post that I make with Word 2007 is sent into the past back to November 1969. This has been reported by many bloggers, and I am assuming that Word cannot successfully convert its date to conform with the […]

In early May, Microsoft bundled a program into a critical security update that validated your copy of Windows. If the program found that your copy was not genuine, it would trigger a dialog box to appear on a regular basis to remind the user that they could have been a victim of software piracy.
Unknowingly, […]

After acquiring the online word processor Writely, Google is seeking to continue to build an online alternative to Microsoft Office by developing an online spreadsheet program. Appropriately named Google Spreadsheets, the program allows you to create basic spreadsheets and save them in either CSV (Comma Separated Values) format or in the Microsoft Excel format […]

I have not updated this blog in a while, and when I go to type up another post in Word 2007 (it’s easier to do it this way), it will not publish the blog for some reason.  Well, I go to my blog to view it, and the entire thing has seem to have vanished […]

This scientific paper (PDF) prepared by physicist Ruggero Maria Santilli goes into specific detail about the creation and nature of HHO gas. From the abstract:
It is indicated that the creation of the gaseous and combustible HHO from distilled water at atmospheric temperature and pressure occurs via a process structurally different than evaporation or separation, […]

A hidden but potentially powerful new feature of the next version of Word is the ability to compose a blog post and publish it entirely from within Word. This brings most of Word’s tools and formatting into close reach to just about any blogger. Although not all of the tools […]