Category Archives: Windows XP

Google Reader breaks right-click

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

One of my favorite browsing techniques is to highlight a selection, right-click and choose Search Google for…  (in Firefox.)  Google Reader appears to have broken this functionality.  On a normal page, after I highlight a given set of text, and … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mac switcher – electronic wallets

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I now have a very unique set of requirements for a password wallet.  I realistically need something that is file based (as opposed to database based) and runs on Windows, Windows Mobile, and Mac OS X. It needs to be … Continue reading →

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File Synchronization

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I’ve been using FolderShare for quite a while to keep a select subset of my personal files synchronized between my work laptop and my home environment.  I’ve blogged about it a few times in the past.  Now that I’ve added … Continue reading →

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What year is it?

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Apparently, H&R Block’s programmers don’t know about least priviledge.  Yes, their app has an auto-update feature, but so does Firefox, and it runs as a non-administrator just fine. Here’s my work around to run TaxCut as my user account (so … Continue reading →

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TrueCrypt 5.0 ships – now with system disk encryption

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

The open-source disk encryption leader, TrueCrypt, has shipped their latest version, and is now supporting encryption of a complete Windows system (similar to what PGP does.)  I happily used PGP’s full disk encryption on my work laptop for a while, … Continue reading →

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Not for the faint of heart

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Microsoft has posted the RELEASE CANDIDATE of Windows XP SP3 for general download.  If you’re dying for some SP3 action, or you just have a death wish, hop on over.  Or wait until next year with the rest of us. … Continue reading →

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Something is wrong here

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

  Why is Dell’s wireless LAN tray utility using 92MB of RAM?  I’m thinking that’s a bit excessive.  

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I think McAfee is having a problem

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

349,992 K in use for a virus scanner?  I think that’s a little much.  

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Move your OST?

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

My employer is very into the C:/D: partitioning scheme on our laptops (its a side effect of their policy to reimage a machine if it takes IT longer than 30 minutes to fix a problem.)  Yesterday, I went to defrag … Continue reading →

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Google’s Photo Screensaver

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

One of my colleagues showed me the Google Photo Screensaver, and I thought it was quite nice, so I wanted to install it.  The unfortunate thing is it is part of the Google Pack, and requires you to install it … Continue reading →

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