So this weekend, I decided to scratch my own itch and figure out a way to play a random media file. Let’s say you’ve got a lot of tv shows or movies and you don’t want to browse… you want to channel surf. This is how you can do it in Windows: chcp 65001 setlocal…
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Read More How I survived a fresh Windows 7 installMy Windows Vista Home Premium installation was on one of the Seagate 7200.11 drives with the bad firmware, so I’ve been trying to do something about it for a while now. This weekend I used SelfImage to copy my installation from one drive to another via my windows XP machine. After 12 hours of waiting…
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