This has annoyed me ever since MS took it into their heads to randomly map commands to keys that previously had a very different purpose.

“cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)” <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in
message news:tnls03ldgjlm6v2ffnd5o7ocml63ot8p73@4ax.com…
>
> To me, these frills are almost more hassle than they are worth. I
> want List view everywhere, with a minimum of unsolicited content
> groping, but that is at odds with the direction of Vista’s quest to
> “make it easier” and be more effective/powerful.
>

Set the list view for a folder that’s using the ‘All Items’ template, then
use ‘Apply to Folders’. Then override content-sniffing with my ‘AllFolders’
regedit:

Copy the text between the lines below into notepad & save as a .reg file.
Watch out for line wrap — [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Shell] is all one line,
there is a space between ‘Local’ and ‘Settings’.

————————————————–
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
“FolderType”=”NotSpecified”

————————————————–

Merging the .reg file will set the ‘All Items’ template for any folders that
don’t currently have a view saved with a different template. You can clear
all saved views by deleting the

“HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags”

key BEFORE merging the .reg file. If any folders open with a different
template after clearing the ‘Bags’ key & merging the .reg file, they most
likely have a template specified via their desktop.ini file.

Source

http://www.twitchguru.com/2007/08/27/bioshock_drm/

SecuROM still isn’t as intrusive and obnoxious as StarForce was, but it’s certainly heading that way.

if (person = terrorist) {
     punish_severely();
} else {
     exit(-1);
}

If you can spot the error, you know what’s wrong with the new terrorist arrest/detainment/torture law.

Yes – you read that right. Here’s their flyer that they spread around. Honestly, it makes me sick to see people like this call themselves “Christian”, because there is so many anti-christian messages on that flyer that I lost count before even getting half way through it.

It was making a strange noise, so in a fit of inspiration I took it and shook it a bit, hoping it was just some grit lodged in there.  I guess it wasn’t, because once I did that not only did the noise stop but the water stopped flowing as well.  From there, the CPU temperature on my PC started jumping about a degree a second so I figured it was a really good time to just turn the whole system off.

Of course, this now gives me the opportunity to be a bigger and better pump in it, but while I’m waiting for the parts to arrive I now have a girlie little fan on the CPU, which is annoyingly keeping the processor cooler than the old water system did (though I do admit I have the side off the case and a bunch of components left out because I know I have to pull it apart again when the new cooler components arrive.