ADTC (Computer)

I just ran a very simple tool that comes in Windows, the Magnifier. But it immediately crashed my Vista Ultimate installation with a Blue Screen of Death (Stop Error). It said something about Video Memory Manager Error. Just before the crash, Vista tried to switch to Basic skin, possibly 16-bit mode. Anyway it's strange that such a simple accessory that comes preinstalled with Windows caused such a serious error. Could be my video card? Let's see what Microsoft has to say about this.

I've always tried many flavours of Linux and pretty much know quite a lot of what anybody should know about Linux. But I never got to try Mac OS X because it uses a completely different computer architecture, isn't free, and would need me to buy a whole MacBook which would cost me the same as 2 Windows laptops... ... until now! Yes, I finally got to experience Mac OS X right in my Tablet PC! Here, I will enumerate my experiences. Day 0 First, I wanted to find a Mac OS X DVD ISO file. I got the latest version 10.5 from [sorry source cannot be mentioned]. It is nicknamed Leopard. Day 1 I was hoping to try Mac on a virtual PC so that I can avoid having to deal with my hard disk and issues like that. Unfortunately... keep reading! I downloaded Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, created a new virtual machine, mounted the ISO and started up. Wow. Something is happening. The DVD is booting and files are being loaded. After about a minute or so of loading several files, *BOOM*...

Update: It did finally change! In Windows 7, the Add Fonts dialog box is completely missing (or has been made inaccessible). Now, the File menu in the Fonts folder does not have an Install New Font option and there's no way to bring up an Add Fonts dialog box. According to the Windows Help, there are only two ways to install a font. One is to right-click the font and click Install . The other is to drag the font into the Fonts folder. Original Post: This has to be the most ridiculous thing about Microsoft Windows. The dialog box below is from Windows 3.1 (earlier?) and still continues to exist even in the lastest Windows Vista in the exact same form. See the drive and folder selection part and icons used there? Microsoft should do either of the following. Remove this dialog box and the File menu item completely. 99% of people adding new fonts simply drag and drop them into the Fonts folder (or use similar methods). If such a feature proves useful, replace thi...

the keyboard still stays where it is. Well, sort of. You see all kinds of different keyboards such as multimedia keyboards, gaming keyboards, curved keyboards, split keyboards, foldable keyboards and so on. But the most basic thing about the keyboard is the QWERTY layout. All the keyboards you find in your favorite computer store, no matter what special features it has, have this standard layout. So what's wrong right about this standard keyboard? The QWERTY layout was designed as a quick-fix to solve the jamming problem that occurred in a very early model of typewriters. It was designed in such a way so that the user of the typewriter will not press two adjacent keys one after the other, as this was the source of jamming problem. However, the later model of typewriters, and computer keyboards, don't have this jamming problem anymore and pressing two adjacent keys will not jam anything (in the case of typewriter) or has nothing to jam (in the case of keyboard). T...

If you keep blowing air into a balloon, it keeps getting bigger and bigger. But how big can it ever get? How would you solve the problem of the walls getting thinner and weaker? And lastly, how big do you want it to be? Apparently, HP decided to literally blow up a notebook computer. They nicknamed it "The Dragon" and that name matches very well. 20.1" widescreen (WSXGA+ 1680×1050) display. You know how big that is? I saw this notebook for real , and was asking myself, "Is this a desktop or a laptop?" And about getting bigger means weaker, well there are only limited number of units available for sale, because they knew only the elite and strong would buy such an expensive (SG$ 5,999.00) and heavy (6.94kg) notebook PC. Description and specifications are in the second picture below. For detailed specifications, visit HP Pavilion website (click here) . Price is in Singapore Dollars, approx. US$ 4,145.24

I can't believe normal people fall prey for all the nice packaging and advertisements those idiots at Symantec make for Norton Antivirus . They tell a white lie as though it's the ultimate truth, and people believe it just because it's advertised like "We have the BEST anti-virus on earth." while their product actually sucks to the maximum and is in fact the worst you can ever buy. 1) Norton Antivirus is commonly known to slow down computers with their ridiculously designed slow code-base. If you buy a pretty modern normal computer, and try installing Norton on it, you'll notice that the computer slows down to being like a snail as soon as u get Norton installed. 2) Norton heavily interferes with the proper functioning of not one, not two, but many popular programs, causing headaches to normal computer users who are not tech-savvy enough to understand what's really happening. This causes them to either blame the problem on the software, or the ...

Ever seen this in Windows Live Messenger? I think this is something new: This conversation has been inactive and some participants will be removed. And then it randomly removes some participants, I think, until only one (excluding myself) is left.