Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category
A quick laugh
This post on slashdot just cracked me up. The quote is from a discussion about a multiplication bug in Microsoft Office 2007.
A:Perhaps this is how multiplication is done in OOXML. They do leap years in dates wrong, too.
B: Oh my, it is clearly spelled on page 890 of the draft:to retain backward compatibility with MSDOS [...]
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Software, Tech and Web, Technology | 2 Comments
Hilarious MS Paint Commercial
Why does it feel like an Apple add … ?
Filed under: Apple/Mac, Microsoft, Tech and Web, Technology, Video, Windows | 2 Comments
A Geeks perfect Vespa
Vespa fan Quang Nguyen can show the world what a real geek scooter should look like. His Vespa GTS250 got a nice touch-screen which is attached to an “embedded” Windows XP computer. But what’s a computer worth withouth a connection to the interweb? You got it, the Vespa sports Wifi as well as two nice [...]
Filed under: Cars, Design, Hardware, Microsoft, Mobile, Mods, Real Life, Technology, Technology and Gadgets, Urban | 7 Comments
Security researcher and rootkit specialist Joanna Rutkowska has published the source-code of a completely rewritten “Blue Pill” virtualization rootkit.
The rootkit takes advantage of so called hardware virtualized machines (HMVs) to shift Windows into a virtual machine without the OS’s permission or recognition of the fact. Currentl only AMD’s VT-x/Pacifica technology is supported to pull Windows [...]
Filed under: AMD, Hardware, Microsoft, News, Security, Windows | 4 Comments

