WinBook TW700 first impressions, survival guide
So, Micro Center is selling Windows 8.1 tablets for $60. No, really. That includes a Windows license, a quad core Atom (that’s right, this isn’t even RT), an IPS display, and a friggin’ Office 365...
View ArticleQuick guide on upgrading a WinBook TW700 to Windows 10
It’s rather tricky to get Windows 10 onto a WinBook TW700, between WIMBoot’s inefficiency, the inability to delete things from the preload, and the limited storage available on a TW700, so I thought...
View ArticleWindows 10 DPI scaling and window positioning issues on laptops
If you’re using a Windows 10 laptop at anything other than the default scaling factor for your display, you may encounter an issue where closing the lid causes your window positions and sizes to be...
View ArticleFlashing linear flash cards – quick notes
I recently bought an HP OmniBook 430 that needed a system ROM card, which has to be on a linear flash card. Creating such a card, however, was a bit of an ordeal, so I’ll quickly document what exactly...
View ArticleIs Tesla actually a car company?
It might seem crazy to ask whether Tesla’s a car company – they certainly make cars, and on paper, cars are about 82% of their YTD revenue as of the third quarter of FY2017. However, I’m going to argue...
View ArticleBenchmarking Microsoft BASICs
I decided it’d be an interesting project to try to benchmark the Microsoft BASICs – I’ve always seen the claim that QBASIC was slower than QuickBASIC, and I thought I’d put that to the test. So, my...
View ArticleWeb 1.0, and this blog
You may notice that this blog looks a lot older than it did last time you looked at it. For a while now, I’ve been dissatisfied with the state of the web. Literally megabytes of JavaScript code that’s...
View ArticleThoughts on content warnings, the Fediverse, and how to do better, with the...
You may have heard of Mastodon, a federated microblogging platform that’s being pitched as an alternative to Twitter, and interoperates with many other platforms using the OStatus and ActivityPub...
View ArticleWindows XP PXE booting of first-gen VIA EPIA boards, and how not to get a BSOD
If you found this article, you’ve probably gotten a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (aka STOP 0x000000D1 or 0xD1) error on fetnd5.sys when PXE booting Windows XP on a VIA EPIA 5000 or 800, or any other...
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Thoughts on command line interfaces and discovery
A while back, I posted about how IBM i has some lessons to teach about command line interfaces and how to make them discoverable, over on my former mastodon.social account. However, that thread has...
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