Category: Diary

First of all, why install a 10-year-old system? I miss a certain multiplayer game that is played over the network via IPX. Now on to my journey before I managed to integrate the SATA drivers. I spent about 2 hours on a program called Virtual Floppy Driver (VFD) 👻 This link is deader than Flash …

In the morning, because it had snowed, my sister did the delivery round by car with me. The roads were terribly slippery, though. We set out at 5 a.m. and I was home at about 6:45, my sister about 15 minutes later, because she was still finishing her route, while I instead walked home on …

I installed the build from that guy – Hexxeh – 👻 This server has been sent to the retirement home for domains. . I don’t understand how he managed to fit a 1.9GB image onto a 2GB partition – well, that part I could understand, but it split the USB drive into 6 partitions, of …

I had a 500GB drive with 4 primary partitions. First I took one small 15GB partition and changed it to logical. I did that so I could make the first partition on the drive a primary one, so that W7 could boot from it. I split the 233GB partition into 2: 1. W7 with a …

I’ve spent the whole day looking for freeware to sort through 440 photos (220 at 12Mpix resolution, 220 at the same resolution but for some reason a few KB smaller, and 220 at a low resolution – I need to pick out and delete the last 2 groups). That “some reason” is probably that those …

Well, finally. I have finally bought a new HDD and moved all the data from the other PCs in this household onto this HDD. There were also several backups of my data from the times I tried to rescue whatever I could after Windows refused to boot. And boy, that happened every so often. Of …