Wednesday, December 2, 2009

MSI Command Line Options

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227091

There was a lot of other pages, but this matches what I was seeing in the private installer.


Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Window Installer (MSI)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.msi

An engine for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software on Microsoft Windows systems.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Finger Prints and other Biometrics in Windows 7

http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/16/getting-your-fingerprints-on-windows-7.aspx?s=gcndaily_221009

Biometrics is now part of Windows 7.  Any device that conforms to the Windows Biometric Framework (WBF) should work.


Thursday, February 28, 2008

Editing Non-ASCCO File (Hex Editing)

Need to look at a file that contains some non-ascii characters. Most of the file is readable, but some of them arn't.

Found the following hex editor: http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

Installing:

Work Great!!!

Friday, January 4, 2008

What is OCX?

From the following link: http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci212689,00.html

OCX is an OLE custom control used by application running in Windows.

Friday, July 6, 2007

InfraRecorder








Open source ISO burning software.

This is the Ubuntu HOWTO that talks about it:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

This is the InfraFrecorder site:

http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5

This is the installer for 2000/XP/Vista:


http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/infrarecorder/ir0431_unicode.exe?download

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

New Technology (NT)

Windows NT stand for Windows New Technology. When it first came out some people referred to is as "Nice Try" OS.

Reference pages:

NT Acronym

Description

Microsoft History Description (see 1993: Windows NT 3.1)