Friday, May 15, 2009

Humyo broken?

OK, I don't know why the Humyo things are not appearing... if they stay absent, I'll take a look at it.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

2009-03-29 Practical Computing

This is a reduced version of the podcast; it should be streamable for those on dialup. Please comment on OttawaForums.com

A Chicken is Born

Why "Andy the Chicken"? Here's why:


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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Scary thought for the day

Here's a scary thought: a photo taken with an average camera today, won't even fit on a floppy disk.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?

Recently, my copy of Windows XP started giving me this error, when I tried to run an executable program, even after I'd checked its source, firefox had virus scanned it while downloading, and I'd tested it with my installed virus scanner:

"The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?"

Although I could disable this message for one program, there wasn't an obvious way to delete the feature. I went down a horrible rathole of trying to get the group policy console working on my XP home. Five megabytes of downloads and error messages later, I discovered that there's a registry entry that you can set, which prevents this nanny message. Here it is:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
"LowRiskFileTypes"=".exe"

You can either add this manually, or save that text as a text file, change its name to "something.reg" and double click it to add it to your registry. It may not take effect until you restart your computer.

Friday, April 27, 2007