Indiscriminate Transgressions

I’m not sure why this is a completely under-the-radar release, but it improves Vista’s search in myriad ways.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940157

I know I am late to the party with these, but I just discovered them.

Nifflas’ Games

There are a few great platformer-exploration games here.

“I’m not going to put in my lot with economists,” [Hillary Clinton] said on the ABC program “This Week.” A few moments later, she added, “Elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantages the vast majority of Americans.”

Someone check her sense of irony.

Fun one, the option to turn off hibernation via the GUI has been eliminated. I have a laptop with 4GB RAM and a 64GB SSD, so space is at somewhat of a premium. I never use hibernate (sleep works great) so I figure let’s disable it. You have to do this from the command line. Open a command line with administrator privs, and type:

powercfg -H off

Your hibernation file will immediately be freed and all hibernate options will disappear from power plans. Pretty obvious should be the way to turn that back on:

powercfg -H on

Here’s how to open a command line with administrator privs:

1. Click Start followed by All Programs and then Accessories
2. Oon the Accessories menu Right Click on the Command Prompt
3. From the drop down menu, Click on the Run Administrator option

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Minimalist360

Well I was all pissed off that Bully: Scholoarship Edition was locking up one of my Xbox 360s, the important one, but Rockstar released a patch.

The thigh-texture problem (people with ballooning, flashing thighs) and some frame rate problems still exist, but at least the lockups are gone. The game shows Version 1.03 on the title screen now, and philosophically that’s an interesting thing, a version/patch identified on a console game, because it indicates that the slippery slope of PC-style patching for console games is well and good, and is headed more and more in this direction.

In this case 1.03 fixes the lockups. But here’s my question/conspiracy theory…

Were 1.01 and 1.02 released to manufacturing? Some people complaining of lockups went back to the store and exchanged their copy that locks up and got a new copy that didn’t lock up anymore. Maybe 1.01 was the initial release to manufacture (maybe even in error), and 1.02 was the “jesus christ we screwed up let’s manufacture the new ones with this copy but hey don’t throw out the ones you already made as that would cost dollarzzzz?” Then the patch comes out to take _everyone_ to 1.03 is to try to save face?

Cos we already KNOW that the “only on older consoles” thing is a line of crap, as MANY people with really new consoles (including 2 month old elites) had the lockup problem. And we already know Take-Two/Rockstar will lie first when confronted with something.

So I mean, I guess I’m not buying the “horrified” act.