If you have a copy of Vista Ultimate and went to update today you will find that the new DreamScene update was live. This extra allows you to run movie clips on your desktop in the .mpg and .wmv formats. You can see a demonstration on the Windows Deamscene post at Windowsultimate.com
Ok once [...]
By default Windows Vista is setup to synchornize with an Internet Time Server. This allows the computer to update its time automatically. This does require access to the internet using UDP port 123 and can be blocked if your firewall is not configured properly.
If you want to change your time server for [...]
Ok, had some more time this morning and I started poking around various forums. It turns out that 9dragons is using a particular program called Gameguard by Nprotect to help guard against cheaters. This program acts like a rootkit and inject itself into core files, which is what Vista is detecting. It [...]
So here I am spending my Sunday at home with the kids gone to my sister in laws and I figure it is the perfect time to get some gaming in. I remember reading about a new game that just went into beta called 9dragons. I signup for the game and download the [...]
For years *nix systems have enjoyed the ability to point a symbolic link to a file at another location making life a little easier for adminstrators and developers who create scripts. With the Windows 2000 platform there was a step forward with the ability to make directory links or junctions. Now with Windows [...]
