Today after updating my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with Service Pack 1, I noticed, that almost all Right click context menus (for example on Desktop) are on wrong side – left side of mouse pointer instead of right side. It turns out, that Service Pack somehow changed my Windows settings. To get back the old …
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Stress test my Video card to reproduce driver crash
One of my video cards kept crashing and showing various artifacts. Usually this happened when playing youtube.com videos or using DirectX. Video card was GIGABYTE nVidia GTX 460. When crashing, Windows temporary disabled both monitors / displays and, then balloon tip appeared showing: [Display driver stopped responding and has recovered] Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel …
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FireWire port is a big security hole
Today, reading Larry Osterman’s blog, I learned something new. I always knew, that physical access to computer / server almost always means, that it may be compromised in one or another way, like Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods. More here. One thing I didn’t know, is FireWire (IEEE 1394 interface) Security issues. …