Archive for May, 2008
Another update
It’s been awhile since I last updated the blog, so I thought I should get this thing updated with some new content.
Last week Chell and I got our lips pierced, well Chell’s piercing is technically called a “Madonna”, it’s like where a beauty spot is. Mine is on the bottom left of my lip.
I have just got 4 days off work, which is quite good as it’s been pretty busy lately. Chell and I are going to Airlie Beach tomorrow and spending two nights in a nice resort. It is quite a special occasion as it’s our one year anniversary, it must be fate as it’s when the 4 days off fell on the roster for me :-).
Airlie Beach is just near the Whitsundays, so hopefully we can go snorkeling or something like that in the awesome crystal clear blue ocean.
I’ve put some new photo’s of Chell and I in our gallery, you can see our new piercings :-).
Oh, I almost forgot, Chell bought me a cool Bathing Ape (BAPE) hoodie, which you can see here or also in the gallery.
Replace Notepad with Notepad2, Vista
One of my previous posts was about the text editor Notepad2. Which as I mentioned before is a lightweight editor which also has syntax highlighting.
Now I recently noticed a forum post on MSFN, on how to replace Notepad with Notepad2, so without further ado, here is the code:
takeown /f %Systemroot%\notepad.exe
takeown /f %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe
icacls %Systemroot%\notepad.exe /grant "%username%":f
icacls %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe /grant "%username%":f
IF EXIST %SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64 (bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions "DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS")
copy %Systemroot%\notepad.exe %Systemroot%\notepad.original.exe
copy %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.original.exe
ECHO.
ECHO Original notepad.exe has been renamed to "notepad.original.exe" in its original folder.
ECHO.
copy notepad2\notepad2.exe %Systemroot%\notepad.exe /y
copy notepad2\notepad2.exe %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe /y
Now all you need to do is save this into a bat file, I called mine replacenp2.bat. Then just create a folder called notepad2, with a subfolder the same, and place the notepad2.exe file in it, and run the command, and voiola, Notepad is replaced with Notepad2.
So the directory structure should look something like this:
- notepad2
- replacenp2.bat
- notepad2
- notepad2.exe
- notepad2
Update: Now, I tried running the command, but for some reason (even ran as admin), it didn’t want to copy it. So I opened up an elevated command prompt, and it seemed to copy & replace fine.
History repeats itself
Well it seems like everyone touted Vista as “the bad OS”, especially when SP1 came out, causing reboot loops. A lot of people seemed to steer clear of SP1, saying that XP was a lot better.
Now, the question is, everyone that put dirt on Vista SP1 for the endless reboot loop, and sticking with XP for the stability, seems like they got what they asked for. Microsoft recently released SP3 for XP, and guess what – it has an endless reboot bug also.
Now, I haven’t noticed many people saying things like “XP is a piece of sh*t”, but why? It has the same bug that Vista SP1 had. I thought everyone would now be saying “I’m sticking with Windows 2000 SP4″, since it seems to be “the stable one” now.
Well there’s my rant for the day. Vista SP1 reboot loop vs XP SP3 reboot look, take your pick.
On a lighter note, the Vista SP1 reboot loop has been fixed for awhile now, so it seems, in light of things, Vista seems to be the stable one for now.
What Happens in Vegas…
Chell and I went to see the new Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz movie, What Happens in Vegas. It was quite a good movie, with lots of laughs. It reminded of Ashton’s other movie he did, with Brittany Murphy, Just Married.
Here is the plot of What Happens in Vegas, taken from IMDb.
Set in Sin City, story revolves around two people who discover they’ve gotten married following a night of debauchery, with one of them winning a huge jackpot after playing the other’s quarter. Unhappy pair try to undermine each other and get their hands on the money — falling in love along the way.
So I guess you could call it one of those sappy, romantic comedies, but I would recommend seeing it, it’s quite funny from the get-go.
Tags: DVD
Defaulted phone, clean install
Well since upgrading to v21.0.016 of the firmware on my N95-1, I decided to default the phone & format the memory card and start all fresh again. I guess it’s always good to start fresh, just like with Windows.
The first thing I put on the phone is a nice theme called Ice by Pizero, I would highly recommend checking his site out, as there are quite a few nice theme’s over there.
Well, that is all for now. I might get back to transferring my stuff back to my phone / memory card, and then do Chell’s one afterwards.
Tags: Nokia