Daniel15's Blog » Windows http://dan.cx/blog Blog of Daniel, a slightly awesome 19-year-old web developer from Melbourne, Australia Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:22:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Easter egg in Windows XP… “Sometime this millennia” http://dan.cx/blog/2007/11/easter-egg-in-windows-xp-sometime-this-millenia/ http://dan.cx/blog/2007/11/easter-egg-in-windows-xp-sometime-this-millenia/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:08:35 +0000 Daniel15 http://www.daniel15.com/blog/2007/11/04/easter-egg-in-windows-xp-sometime-this-millenia/ A funny easter egg I recently came across in Windows XP, relating to files created in the future:

  1. Set your system clock to a date in the future (something far in the future; eg December 2030).
  2. Create a new file (anything, a blank text document will do).
  3. Set the system clock back to the real date.
  4. Open the directory containing the newly-created file.
  5. Choose the View → Arrange Icons By → Modified option.
  6. Tick View → Arrange Icons → Show in Groups.
  7. Look at the group heading of the newly-created file:
    Windows XP Easter Egg - “Sometime This Millenia”

Of course, that should be “Millenium”… Millennia is plural :P


]]> http://dan.cx/blog/2007/11/easter-egg-in-windows-xp-sometime-this-millenia/feed/ 3 Vista RC1 Build 5728 installed without DVD http://dan.cx/blog/2006/09/vista-rc1-build-5728-installed-without-dvd/ http://dan.cx/blog/2006/09/vista-rc1-build-5728-installed-without-dvd/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:40:27 +0000 Daniel15 http://www.daniel15.com/blog/2006/09/26/vista-rc1-build-5728-installed-without-dvd/ Recently, heaps of people have been going crazy over the new Vista RC1 release. I decided to dowload Vista, and try it myself. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any blank DVD’s at hand. Nevertheless, I discovered that you can install Vista without burning it onto DVD. Here’s how you do it:

  • Partition your hard drive. Resize your Windows partition to leave at least 15-20GB available for Vista. You can do this through utilities like PartitionMagic, or through a boot CD such as the free Ultimate Boot CD. If you don’t know how to partition a drive, you’re probably not the kind of person who should be installing Vista.
  • Install the free DAEMON Tools if you don’t have it already.
  • Download the DVD ISO from the Microsoft site
  • Once the download is done, mount the ISO file with DAEMON Tools (using the DAEMON Tools icon in the system tray. Right-click it, and go Virtual CD/DVD ROM –> Device 0 –> Mount Image
  • If Autorun is enabled, the Windows Vista setup will appear. If not, go to ‘My Computer’, double-click on the virtual DVD drive, and then double-click ‘SETUP.EXE’.

If you’ve done everything correctly, this should start the Vista installation wizard. When prompted to choose a partition, choose the one created earlier. The setup program will then copy over all the files, and reboot your computer (to continue the setup).
One notable thing is that the DVD is only required for the initial step (copying the files), and that’s why you can do it this way. Previous version of Windows required the CD throughout the whole setup (and don’t even remind me of the 20 or so Windows 95 floppy disks :P )

Anyways, after looking at Vista for a while, it’s definately overrated. The graphical effects in Compiz are much better than anything that Vista could ever achieve. Vista is bloatware, that’s all there is to it. After Vista’s release, more and more people will start realising the benefits of Linux over Windows (especially the price, and overall performance), and make the switch. At least, that’s what I’m hoping.

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