as the decompilation of serenity goes forth there have been a number of small hiccups that have somewhat halted progress such as rediscovering hex addresses that have moved or seemingly no longer exist.
now the first batch of patches all went fairly well, uxtheme, tcpip, sfc_os and winntbbu have all been successfully patched however one stumbling [...]
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Woe is the boot pallete of SP3
Posted in Development, Serenity on April 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
SP3 RTMS!
Posted in Development, Serenity on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
well, it’s been a frickin’ long time, but SP3 has finally gone gold.
5512 (xpsp.080413-2113) weighs in at 316MB and is fully slipstream-able into an existing disk.
this also means that serenity will be rebuilt using this build. stay tuned for news on this blog as toms hosting is going down
Merging Multi-File Movies
Posted in Development on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
as a few of my fellow pirates may know some movies are split up into 700 meg chunks for easy burning. well, if you’re keeping these files on HDD forever more then its juat an annoying habit to flip over to part two when you’re watching a film.
so, with the help of a super fun [...]
Lunix!
Posted in Development, Life on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
well as the wireless router was seemingly broken and i was looking forward to an important email i decided to lug my desktop downstairs to unleash the raw power on the interwubz directly to my unsuspecting PC.
i had installed ubuntu months ago in an effort to experience me so berly/compiz/xgl goodness but restricted drivers were [...]
Further Longhorn Patches
Posted in Development, Longhorn on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
after finally fixing a static date in VPC i sat down one evening (and morning) and plan to install every single missing longhorn build so that i can finally add activation patches for all of them. so, without further ado, i present to you and intended patch list:
4011.0 (main.030305-2045)
4028.0 (Lab01_N.030701-2000)
4029.0 (main.030619-0000)
4051.0 (idx02.031001-1340)
4093.0 (main.040819-1215)
5048.0 (winmain_idx02.050401-0536)
i have [...]
Vista SP1
Posted in Development on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
so after a bit of guess work as to which version was RTM i finally got my exe verified by mikey and did a clean install of vista on to my 15GB partition so i could multiboot with xp 3180 (awesome build btw, can’t wait RTM) vista was running as clean install of vista RTM [...]
Site Update on the Horizon?
Posted in Design, Development on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
for a month or so now i’ve been contemplating moving all of my individual sites (namely my blog, personal stevey.biz website, project pages, serenity website and lastly my repository) into a single site with a clean interface coupled with intersite integration.
all going well for either £5 or £10 (can’t quite remember as the original amount [...]
Huge Reposititory Changes
Posted in Development on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
well last night i sat down after starting serenity working on its latest VM test with the websites repository open i noticed that it was fairly empty so i decided to start rebuilding it all again. serenitys’ repository is now the primary one and houses all my longhorn patches (binary, not txt!) and the sources [...]
Some Hacks be Afoot
Posted in Development on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
as part of my update of web technologies i’ve been learning php and to be honest coming a long way with it. i’m now in the process of making a wordpress theme for an offline installation i’m in the process of maintaining.
sofar most of the goings on have been simple edits to themes or to [...]
Web Stoof
Posted in Development on November 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
as part of my regaining the touch of the interwebz codings as you do, i’ve been building a few sites and seeing if i can get them valid whilst having indented PHP nailed. so enter example one, this was the first site i’d designing from scratch in a while. it features some shiny show [...]
