http://www.systemsabuse.com helping you abuse your system one day at a time Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:59:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just thought I'd post this for anyone else having this issue that plans on having kids and is using the iPhone OS 3.1.  My wife and I both have an iPhone 3G and I updated both of our phones to OS 3.1 the day it was released.  We are now ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2009/09/14/iphone-3g-with-os-31-nearly-burned-my-leg-and-nether-regions/ For those of you who develop using WPF, I ran into the following issue recently: I developed MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth, a WPF application, and with the latest nVidia drivers it displays erratic rendering of the interface. Graphical elements are missing, are half showing, when you mouseover them they ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2009/08/01/wpf-application-with-dropshadoweffect-renders-incorrectly-on-nvidia-geforce-drivers-18585-and-greater/ So I've been running the Windows 7 RC for awhile, but I haven't really been playing many games. I've started playing TF2 again with my brother, and I noticed that every time I loaded the game any music I had playing in Windows Media Player, or even my Ventrilo volume ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2009/07/25/when-i-run-tf2-team-fortress-2-all-my-other-sounds-get-quiet-windows-7/ Karsten Januszewski has a post (read his post for instructions on installing the addin) about Intellisense for Expresion Blend and upon trying it, it didn't work.  I would get the following error: "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Expression.DesignSurface, Version=2.1.1693.0, Culture=neutral,..." The issue was caused by the fact that even though I ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2008/12/18/blendsense-xaml-intellisense-for-expression-blend-v2117600/ Since I started playing Guitar Hero 3 a month or so ago I've been keeping an ear out for songs that I think would be awesome to play in Guitar Hero.  Today, I thought of the perfect song, which I found a few months ago on the blog of Fake ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2008/07/01/guitar-hero-3-ultimate-song-request-hocus-pocus-by-focus/ I picked up Metal Gear Solid 4 today and ran into an issue.  After you install the game, you get to the screen where it says "This game saves data automatically at certain points...".  On this screen, you have to it X to continue.  The problem was, X didn't do ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2008/06/23/metal-gear-solid-4-cant-get-past-first-this-game-saves-data-screen/ In Windows Vista, you can no longer drag a folder from Explorer on to a Command Prompt and have it change to that directory.  They say it is a security feature.  But, they did add the ability to shift+right-click on a folder to show the option to Open Command Window ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2008/05/28/better-than-open-command-window-here-vista-explorer-shortcut/ On a Dell Precision 670 (@work), updated to Vista SP1, and a new Dell Inspiron 530 (@friend) with Vista SP1 installed on it when it was received, I have been having issues using the Internet.  Every time I restart my computer, my Internet connection won't work even though the globe ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2008/05/14/windows-vista-sp1-causing-internet-connection-problems/ The original post can be found here: http://www.systemsabuse.com/2007/12/27/xp-service-pack-3-sp3-where-did-my-toolbars-address-bar-go-missing/ MuvEnum has released the MuvEnum Address Bar v1.3.1.0; the ultimate replacement for the missing address bar in Windows XP SP3! MuvEnum Address Bar (x86 and x64 compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 2003 Server) Download Update 04/30/2008: v1.3.1.0 Released Added x64 support. Added support for checking for updates from the ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2008/04/30/muvenum-address-bar-updated-with-x64-support/ As easy as this turned out to be and as easy as it seemed it should be, it took a little digging to find out how to really accomplish this. Since John and I both manage the blog I wanted all comment moderation requests to come to both of us ... http://www.systemsabuse.com/2008/04/29/creating-a-single-forward-to-multiple-email-addresses-with-cpanel/