Recent content by peterl

Was that a particularly blatant bit of trolling, or did you just not read it after you typed it in? The answer is simple, obvious, painful, messy, and illegal.

Back when I taught computer classes I used to assure people that "The only dumb question is one you don't ask," to encourage them to ask questions. Well, someone finally slid one past that standard!

> How do you know when you have EMI? Your radio sounds fuzzy. Your television picture is snowy. Your garage door goes up and down at random intervals. The FCC comes by and gives you a ticket. Your neighbor with the pacemaker clutches his / her chest and falls over. The...

I'm looking at a new motherboard that supports "PCI 2.2." I'm not sure if I understand that standard. What I think I know is 1) It's 66 MHz, 64 bit. 2) An older, slower or 32-bit PCI card will work in a PCI 2.2 slot 3) A PCI 2.2 card will work in an older, slower or 32-bit PCI slot (but...

PC133U-333-542-Z appears to be a type code for memory manufactured by Hyundai. The 128 MB / 133 Mhz part is HYM76V16635HGT8-H. I didn't find a reference for a 512 MB part. All I did was a Web search for 'PC133U-333-542-Z'. I've identified a lot of old memory that I found lying around that...

Tweakui is part of the Microsoft PowerToys package and can be downloaded from Microsoft's web site. Just search for tweakui on their home page. I don't know if it can do what you want, though. Don't have it here.

Is there a registry key that can be set to move the location of the file to which memory is dumped with the system is hibernated? I can't get it to create anywhere but in the root directory of the %systemdrive% disk, which doesn't have space left for the hiberfile. Just to discourage people...