http://chris123nt.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:18:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is really really beyond stupid. So apparently someone on the Live team decided that they will use their cute little app and double it as the UAC police.  Live Mesh will NOT install on a Vista machine that has UAC disabled.  I find this completely absurd, If I want to ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/04/26/live-mesh-requires-uac/ *Gasp*!  Say it ain't so!  The Ultimate extras team actually releasing something?  This has to be some kind of cruel joke, or is it? Today Microsoft released a new Dreamscene content pack as well as an Ultimate Extras sound scheme.  Ok, so not something that warrants silence on UE for a ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/04/22/new-windows-ultimate-extras/ So, it seems that Mr BOFH is at it again.  In his "Windows 7 Exclusive" he claims that Microsoft will do away with the backwards Application compatibility that is currently present in Windows Vista.  I am here to assure everyone that this is NOT true.  Windows 7 will not be ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/04/04/windows-7-will-not-lose-backwards-compat/ Just wanted to post a quick note that I have added a new Tips & Tricks section to the site.  This can be reached by clicking the link in the top navigation bar.  This is a one stop shop that will contain links to all of my guides and other ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/03/09/new-section-added/ Here's a funny video about the last Windows Server 2003 box powering microsoft.com.  Well known that pre-release versions of Server 08 have been powering microsoft.com without a hitch since last June. Video: The Lone Server Here's the backstory on the video: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/pages/about-lone-server.aspx http://chris123nt.com/2008/03/08/funny-video/ Just wanted to inform everyone reading this blog with IE8 in the default standards mode that there seems to be a weird scroll jumping issue occuring if the mouse hovers over any links while scrolling.  I have pinned this down to a block of CSS on the skin and am ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/03/07/note-on-ie8-issues/ Today at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced the first beta of Internet Explorer 8.  This release of IE targets web standards in the agressive way the IE team should have done this years ago.  While beta 1 is a release mainly targeted at the developer sector, some ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/03/05/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/ So as many of you know, back in December I got a shiny new EVGA 780i Motherboard (which was later followed by a slew of other hardware, but that's another story for another day).  Anyway, over the course of these 2 months I have been battling with some pretty severe ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/02/27/evga-780i-chipset-cooling-mod/ Yeah, Microsoft wants to move to more web based services, yet they can't even keep their Windows Live ID Service online.  Ray Ozzie, do yourself a favor and give up your Cloud pipe dream, it's not gonna work. Look at the screenshot below, and awe at the awesome ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/02/07/wow-windows-live-id-failing-again/ Just a little fun post to express some opinions I have about the way things are working at Microsoft around Windows 7. So the past week has been a little, shall we say, fun?  It seems every day brings more information, more screenshots, and more Windows 7 goodness! One thing I will ... http://chris123nt.com/2008/01/29/my-opinion-on-the-windows-7-happenings/