Rev. BigDumbChimp
August 9, 2008 – 10:16 pmRev. BigDumbChimp
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
XOR Encryption
August 7, 2008 – 9:48 pmXOR Encryption is my own VB6 implementation of the simple XOR encryption method that can be found at “http://www.vb6.us”.
It is my own work, that I built to use in a college project, if you find it useful and have the time, or for any more information or any questions you may have, please send an email to binary@badbin.dontexist.net.
Share and enjoy 
Dell Now Supporting Windows XP for Inspiron 1525
July 20, 2008 – 8:06 pmIt appears Dell are now finally providing XP drivers to download from their site for the Inspiron 1525, you can check them out here
Dell Inspiron 1525 HOWTO
July 13, 2008 – 10:34 pmI’m writing this guide because I bought a Dell Inspiron 1525 and was disappointed to find how difficult it was to remove Windows Vista and replace it with Windows XP.
For this guide I assume you have a working Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop with the pre-installed copy of Windows Vista.
This guide should enable you to remove Windows Vista and replace it with Windows XP
The first hurdle when installing XP is that of drivers: the 1525 supports a new bit of Intel tech called AHCI, this allows for some performance advantages over standard ATA, however the AHCI drivers are not available in the standard Windows XP setup; this will prevent Windows Setup from detecting your hard disk drive.
To get around this problem there are two solutions:
1. Using the bios, switch from AHCI to ATA
2. Create a custom Windows XP Install disc
Whilst the first option is clearly the easiest it does not allow us to take advantage of the 1525’s full capabilities, for this reason, we will create a custom XP install disc
To create a custom install disc you will need to download a copy of nLite. You can download a copy of nLite here
After downloading and installing nLite you will also need to get the AHCI drivers to use in the custom install disc. You can download the drivers here. After downloading the drivers you will also need to extract them into a folder for later use.
To create our custom install disc you first need to create a folder on your computer and copy the contents of your XP install disc into that folder
When you start nLite it will ask you to locate your windows installation files, after this nLite will also ask you to select tasks, for this, the only one you need to select is “Drivers”. Next nLite will ask what drivers you would like to integrate, for this, select the folder you previously extracted the drivers into and then click next, nLite will now begin the process of creating a custom install image.
You should now be able to use this image to install XP.
The rest of the job is simply downloading and installing drivers for various hardware; some links that I found useful are listed below:
Marvell Yukon Wired Card Driver
Ricoh R5C833 Flash Drive controller Driver
Coming Soon: Dell Inspiron 1525 HOWTO
June 17, 2008 – 11:00 amA guide on how to remove Windows Vista and install Windows XP on a Dell Insprion 1525
FOAMY!
June 17, 2008 – 10:48 amFoamy is quite literally one of the coolest animated characters of our time, I really do lack the skills to describe it; so instead I will just leave a link
Enjoy!
Back from the grave
June 17, 2008 – 10:45 amSo I decided to make my third attempt at reviving this blog, the first year of college was unexpectedly demanding and so I kind of let a lot of things slide, this blog included. Now that the first year is all but over I decided it would be nice to revive this thing even if just for my own personal comfort rather than any desire to broadcast my life, better still, an excuse to play with wordpress ;-).
As well as quite dull boring snippets of my life I hope I am able to add some interesting and maybe (dare I say it), even, useful tutorials involving Linux and FOSS in general; but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I will also probably post some interesting things I have aquired or learned of over the past year, so there will be a lot of random junk appearing on the site especially within the next few days.
If you like this kind of thing then great! Otherwise I’m very sorry; these things have to be done.