(Monday 11/9/09 6:08 pm) The Owen Outlook Stories, thoughts, diatribes, mindless digressions, on modern technology and gadgets of every kind. Startling developments: Windows 7 sux. IPW: My Macintosh password program! With source! Our Directories, Our Selves: my precious OwenShow. ... And its trusty Windows companion, the XP command-history resuscitator package JX. ... And my father’s Eternal Typewriter.... At last: Owenhelp! ... Windows help for the masses! A free Windows oscilloscope with source! Computer Junk: The Nifty and Not-So-Nifty Just google for “windirstat”. It shows you how space is being used on your enormous hard drive(s) by means of colorful lozenge-shaped things as shown in the beautiful informative illustration. ... This is what computing is all about! — it really is useful and weird! ... And completely free free free!... GEezers unite! It’s Not TEh SEnility, It’s TEh Keyboard! Computerdammerung: the end of magazines, computers, and everything beautiful and sweet.... Asus PC 900 good; Toshiba bad? De-Bricking My (Your?) Acer Aspire One? Emachines: No Support. AVG version 8 won’t update? But Avast seems OK.... DVD data: use the +.... Get the multiple-tab exit dialog back in FireFox 3? The Snowflakiness of a DVDR drive.... Zoom USB wireless sux. Apostasy: Owen and the iMini. Including an iMini Memory Upgrade. And incidentally, Vista Is So Disappointing.... Linux and the Internet: It Won’t Work? (’Cause the wireless sux?) Fixing a Microsoft wireless notebook mouse. The Windows Proxies. Designed-in: Hewlett Packard Paperweight. ... + while not quite as bad, mustn’t neglect the Vista©®™ emachine / gateway / brandx-this-week imaginary restore system. How I configured Thunderbird & AT&T email; gmail.... Video Capture: then and now. ... DVDR(?): Owen and the DVDs: Copy-protection rears its ugly snout again. Bogus “Missing or Corrupt ... Ntfs.sys”? Owen celebrates portable music! Where Have All the Shortcuts Gone? Use the Alt! A LaserJet 6 fix? Fixing/Breaking Averatech buttons and taps.... Dell 3 to 5-day delivery: aka two weeks.... + an Owen Travel Tip.... Eclipse: The Victimless IDE.... JGOPW: My very own password program. Switch Control/CapsLock in XP? Or how about Blue Screen Considered Helpful? How Come Linux Don’t Talk Too Good; or, Wild Card Expansion in Linux (recursive grep). Windows keyboard/mouse Macro Express: A+ The Timex Data-Link Watch. The KILL95 Utility: really wreck your system. Programming, Hardware, Graphics, Webbery, Networks: The Owen Techy Adventures & Dubious Opinions The Backslash-Quote Feature: The Greatest Bug of All? Joel on Software; one of these relentless know-it-alls, he’s at least as annoying as me — but is sometimes right! ... And he’s actually made million$.... How I Edited Windows Icons with some free icon editors. How I RS232ed in Win32 C++. ... + JG32: talk to your obsolete RS232 gadgets with Delphi source.... VirtualBox and Computer Mashups.... The latest thing: Owen whines about Ajax.... What’s up with NET/C++ interop in Visual Studio? INI files for C++? My Favorite C++ Features. + How to sort: in C++! With STL strings! Without case sensitivity! + the dreaded Objective C of the Macintosh.... Where Has All the Net Gone? CreateProcess ’n’ Me: Adventures with Quotes in XP. Owen enters the 90s: Cadsoft Eagle schematic capture.... Deep Thoughts: Anders Hejlsberg and the Circle of Scripts. Goodbye Dr. Dobbs? And now ... My very own Dr. Dobbs Letter Page on CLR multi-tasking ... and, as it turns-out, the exciting new CLR LINQ feature... Read Linux Files in Windows! Read/write Diskette Images! The Newbigin utilities. ... Or the XP linux-mounting fs-driver! The question of the age: How to make middle-button click tabs work in Firefox. And what to do when steals your Firefox search control. How to make your winders browser use your email program. How Can I See What My Servers and Pages and Junk are Saying to Each Other? (Wireshark née Ethereal) And how do I find broken HTML links? ... And now — the JGWRAP program.... The Semware Editor (“TSE” née “qedit”) A NET System.IO.Ports.SerialPort demo project. Enormous Excitement: Linux vs Windows vs GetTickCount vs. times(). Nobody uses EMACS! ... Do they? Free free 68HC11, 80C166, 8048 assembler / linker package w/source. And my little Sidekick Redux ASCII code table.... Shrinking EXE files: the fabulous UPX! Borland Kylix and the astonishing OwenShow.... (Or its doddering crazy uncle in the attic, the MSDOS OwenView! — or, Our Directories, Our Selves) Also the excellent book Kylix Power Solutions... Also the exciting “drive C: doesn’t exist” Delphi 7 CLX SaveDialog ’n’ Windows 98 bug... Delphi 5 versus XP’s ntdll.DbgBreakPoint DirectMySqlObjects: EZ Delphi database. ... And MySQL Considered Harmful... + Postgres, SQLite alternatives. The UML, CMM, Blah Blah. + Owen’s Giant Project Theory.... (The Guru Plague) ... + Where’d the Diagrams Go? Delphi database components: Scam — or Mistake? And What Was All That Stuff About Software Components? Delphi and Large Fonts and Disappearing Forms. Owen’s Guru Score: EZ Delphi assign. Etc. Prepac King Sized Platform Storage Bed Model # BK-8400-3K: The Slats of Doom!!! Cleaning a noisy Tivoli Model One radio. USPS Forever Stamp Scam . Why your HDMI LCD TV won’t work! A Polaroid Model 195 manual.... How I at last fixed my Eico 379 signal generators. The Stereopticon: The Time Is Now! Intel Leaves the Toy Biz. My precious Casio DH-100 tootle-horn: de-squealed! The JGX Disk Destroyer: Windows 98-only backup for the VS840ex, a sadly-obsolete Roland music-recording device. The amazing Sharpie Metallic Marker! The Rant pages: Rant. Rant2. Rant3. Rant4. Rant5. Rant6. Rant7. Rant8. Rant9. Rant10. Rant11. Rant12. Rant13. Rant14. Rant15. Rant16. Rant17. Rant18 (Computerdammerung). Rant19. Resumé.

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