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So today this evil thing called TrendMicro was bothering me. It started blocking websites, preventing me from writing to the registry and all kinds of annoyingness. I set out to destroy it. If you ever have this problem do the following. Under mmc disable all services related to TrendMicro. Then right click the device manager portion of mmc and show all hidden shit. Scroll down to non-pnp devices. Remove all devices with tmxxxx and any devices with the name trend micro in them. Restart the pc. Open regedit and browse to “HKLM\SOFTWARE\TrendMicro\PC-cillinNTCorp\CurrentVersion\misc” change the AllowUninstall key from 0 to 1. Go to control panel->add/Remove Programs and uninstall that evil virus called trend micro. Enjoy!

Just when you thought you could stop me! I’m back with bochs and I’m not stopping there. FreeDOS baby!

Macbook Keyboard - missing 8 key

So this weekend I headed to my sisters house to take care of her animals while she’s at Mexico Beach for a triathlon. Well I left the room this morning for 5 minutes and my laptop was on the floor closed. When I opened it up the 8 key was missing and could not be found! I’ve searched and searched, the only thing I can figure is one of the dogs popped the key off and ate it! So I did a few google searched and found out that it would cost me about $225 to replace the kayboard or I could replace it myself for far less.

A few more google searches later and I found a youtube video of a guy replacing a single key on the macbook, so I found this site called “WeLoveMacs” and purchased an 8 key from them for about $16. Now I wait for my new 8 key to come in so I can stop hitting that little rubber thing.

So unlike previous versions of firefox its impossible to clear all the history. How The fuck do I remove browser history, cookies and everything else from firefox!?

Here’s a post with the same question on this issue straight from mozillas website..

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=ro&forumId=1&comments_parentId=399203

For those who are interested, I finally managed to clear the shit. I removed firefox, ran cclean and reinstalled firefox. Something is wrong with firefox.  Also I switched it so firefox is always in secure browsing mode. For those who are paranoid like me, just leave the stupid thing in secure browsing mode.

I was just about to sit down to watch Magnum Force from my Dirty Harry collection when windows media player complained that… “Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card.” “The hell?” I thought to myself. What the fuck kind of bullshit is this? Well I found a nice little forum post at http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7586_102-0.html?threadID=286580. Apparently windows media player does not ship with the ability to play movies or if you change dvd drives it fucks up the media player somehow. So I installed some windows codecs that allows me to play copy protected DVD’s. To quote one of the posters, “If only Microsoft would say it in plain English: ‘Get a plugin!’”. I agree, Microsoft, get on the band wagon. I’d like to watch movies without having to download some third party codecs!

You can download the codec pack that I used here: http://www.xpcodecpack.com/.