Digg Video’s page links broken?

So I’m perusing through the Video section on Digg and I go to page two, when I find myself at the Digg news section again. Huh? What was that? I click back in the browser, and check the page 2 button on the video page - and the link presented to me is www.digg.com/page2. That link takes me to page 2 of their news section. What’s up, guys? Anyone else noticing this?

 

Creating Invisible/Hidden Users in Windows XP

I picked up a nifty little tip today about how to hide users in XP. Here’s the trick:

Create a user of your choice. In this case, we’ll create user “Jesse”.

Log on to “Jesse” and open Regedit. (Start > Run > “regedit” (w/o quotes))

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList.

Create a new DWORD set to “0″ and name it the name of your user you wish to hide, in this case, the DWORD will be named “Jesse”.

That’s all you need to do. Then, restart the machine. Once you are presented with the login screen, press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice. This changes the login screen to a window-based one. Your name, in this case “Jesse”, should appear. Type in the password, if given any, and press enter. You’re in!

But - There’s a second problem. You’re not completely invisible yet. If another user (one who particularly doesn’t want you on that system) accesses their “My Computer” folder, they will see your documents folder. “Jesse’s Documents”. So how do we fix that?

With a nifty little tool called FolderGuard from WinAbility.

FolderGuard will hide, password protect, or deny access to any file or folder on your system. Set this baby up and run the wizard, and then point an access deny rule towards that Documents folder. You must set a master password, and the program must be running for the folder to be accessible. But otherwise, the program will run invisibly and anyone else who uses the computer won’t be able to tell someone else has set up an account.

Neat little trick, huh?

A note for Windows XP Home Users: You cannot press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice on the login screen. This feature does not work for you guys. Sorry!

 

A Digg userscript for those Adblockers

So you like Digg?

So you use Firefox?

So you use the Adblock extension?

So you hate that white space it leaves behind?

I personally don’t, but I had a feeling that some of you clever adblockers out there might. So, I quickly put together a little userscript that does this:

Install the userscript by right clicking here and selecting Install User Script. Don’t see that? Go get Greasemonkey (You’ll be glad you did!).

IMPORTANT EDIT: After finding a shitload of pages that I didn’t see before conflict with the script, I’ve decided to just take it down. If you want it, take it, but I’m warning you - some pages won’t work (and it’ll thus be up to you to add them to the exclusion list.)

Sorry! =)

 

Free Antivirus Roundup - AntiVir for teh win!

Damn I’m good.

Remember my last post, about how Anashe’s cousing bashed my software? She was specifially referring to Antivir, my free antivirus program that I’ve been using for years. She said her cousin called it crap.

Oh yeah?

As far as I can see, the score table down at the bottom shows antivir with the best rankings out of every program they tested.

So eat that, mister university graduate.

God I’m good.

 

GM and Smart Idiots.

Two things..

GM Building Hybrids for Good Press, and Not Much Else

Now.. I’m not that car-savvy when it comes to everything that’s inside of it, so I didn’t know all of that. Then again, I know a co-worker who has a lease contract with Honda, and gets a new car every three years. He recently got a Civic Hybrid, and it’s saving him loads of money in fuel. He fills up the tank once every 100 Kms.

But in any event, I’m really not surprised to hear this. GM has been the latest on my personal chopping block, after reading This Article about the worst cars list of 2006, and seeing GM’s latest minivan on there, which it gave to Ford, Buick, Saturn and Chevrolet. I was actually quite disappointed, because I had been seeing that minivan a lot lately and I applauded the new design. I now wish I had actually gotten a chance to try one out at the autoshow.
But anyway, that kind of sneaky underhandedness from a big company like that is just typical. This conforming crap really does give itself a kick in the ass. Instead of conforming to an ignorant belief, Bob, why don’t you lead your company down a better road for once and actually speak up about the negative impact of hybrids? Actually solidify your facts so that the rest of the auto industry actually wakes up and stops the ridiculous debachle? That would impress me. That would change my attitude about GM. but for now, you’re all a bunch of idiots.

 

Nizlopi - JCB Song

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how I act, who I am and how I’ll be as a father. Everyone knows I’m going to be an awesome father, and I think I will be too.. but I’ve become a little worried about the bad times of fatherhood, I’ve become worried that I might be a dad that’s not always there for thier kids. I would hate to disappoint them or make them feel like I don’t want to be involved, or don’t have any interest in what they do, becuse not only was my dad almost totally out of my life, my mom was never interested in anything I did. I hated it. I’m never going to let that happen, so when I see certain behaviours of mine, they get me worried.

Anyway, I’m rambling on about that because I came across a video my brother told me about by this UK band called Nizlopi, and it’s unofficially titled (as far as I know) The JCB Song. The video really stuck me and outlined my point, because it’s from the perspective of a small child, who’s having a good time with his dad as they’re coming home from his work in a big tractor. The son really enjoys his time with his dad, and his dad is someone who he can rely on, and is always there for him.

So yeah, there’s the video hopefully. XD

 

Holy shiza, a blog!?

I was never really into these things. o__o; But I guess things change. I didn’t really realise that wordpress was -this- easy to use. XD So here I am, after about an hour of random customization, writing to nobody - cause nobody’s really looking at this yet. =D

I’d still like to do a bit more customization, but I guess I’ll learn theropes around here as I go.Time is a bit short for me these days, so I’m trying to make the best of them.

While I’m here, I guess I’ll go on about a few things..