THE BEST OF BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD

THE BEST OF BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD

One of my favorite cartoons ever. The reality is like: current gen Z is even dumber than B’n’B. Who would have thought that such thing could turn out like this? Some time ago I have compiled the best moments of this awesome cartoon. Hosted on Brighteon video service. Following content belong to Mike Judge. BEST CUTS OF BEAVIS’N’BUTT-HEAD DIRECT LINK THE BEST BEAVIS HYSTERICS DIRECT LINK BEAVIS’N’BUTT-HEAD ARE DREAMING DIRECT LINK BEAVIS&BUTT-HEAD IN DEEP COMA [~4HOUR OF DEEP SLEEPING] DIRECT LINK
WINDOWS 7 TO WINDOWS VISTA GUI TRANSFORMATION

WINDOWS 7 TO WINDOWS VISTA GUI TRANSFORMATION

Note: Don’t worry, your eye sight is ok. I’m just testing CRT-emulation mode via CSS-magic. To remove FX click on any other page. Back in Pentium 66Mhz days I was a follower of minimal design and always turned off all fancy graphical beauties, for the sake of performance of course. However, today we are not limited to 8Megs of RAM anymore. Therefore, I have decided to transform my Windows 7 installation into Windows Vista.
COLOURFORM ▀ VISIONS OF SURYA

COLOURFORM ▀ VISIONS OF SURYA

Probably one of the best pure 100% ambient albums in human history. Well-crafted multi-layered textures deeply stimulate ear channels and bring your consciousness to the outer limits of our existence. Effect of presence is unparalleled. You do not even need motion video footage to feel the third dimension. More than good earphones are highly recommended. Low-quality audio sample can be found on YT. [CONSIDER TO PURCHASE IT]
LIST OF COOL RETRO SITES DEDICATED TO LEGACY OPERATING SYSTEMS

LIST OF COOL RETRO SITES DEDICATED TO LEGACY OPERATING SYSTEMS

UPDATED: 2021-10-05 Some good old-school sites regarding ‘puters and technology. I will update this post when stumble upon something very cool. [Razorback95] ► cool guy doing retro stuff [DXZeff] ► small vintage computer forum, also guy has pretty neat YT channel [Retro revival blog] ► excellent selection of vintage software [Vogons forum] ► the most important place for old school gamers [Old-games.ru portal] ► very vibrant old games Russian community
KILLING FROZEN PROCESSES IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT

KILLING FROZEN PROCESSES IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT

Software is not perfect. Windows, Linux or any other OS. It doesn’t really matter. In this quick note, I will talk about Windows operating system. For basic deleting of stucked files big chance that you are already using utility like Unlocker or smth. However, some time ago Unlocker was caught in spreading malware, so no trust to this application anymore. As for me, I prefer [Lock Hunter] instead. And what about frozen processes?
MY TERRAGEN LANDSCAPE ACTIVITY

MY TERRAGEN LANDSCAPE ACTIVITY

As you may already know [I like to do landscape and industrial photography] . But when taking plain pictures don’t fun me enough I’m doing simple 3D graphics in Blender. Not long ago I have discovered [Terragen] software. Software can produce pretty good terrain landscapes. Here are my results, hope that you’ll find them entertaining. I’ve tried to keep the picuture size small, not to generate big traffic.
HOW I HAVE SWITCHED MY SOUNDCARD FROM ASUS TO ESI

HOW I HAVE SWITCHED MY SOUNDCARD FROM ASUS TO ESI

For some time I’ve owned Asus Essense STX II sound-card with cool hardware internals, but sh#t-like drivers. Very common situation for modern reality. Except the fact that card is not so modern at all. Asus dropped [driver support] for Windows 7 @ 2015. How cool is that? After some web searching I’ve stumbled upon [Maxedtech drivers] . The overall quality is better, some bugs are fixed, some appeared, but even at this point was not satisfied with system stability.
FASTEST AMD-BASED CARDS FOR LEGACY WINDOWS 98/2000/XP/7

FASTEST AMD-BASED CARDS FOR LEGACY WINDOWS 98/2000/XP/7

Quick breakdown of the most powerful AMD-based cards for legacy operating systems. [X850XT PE] ► WINDOWS 98 [official drivers] / Omega drivers ] [HD 3870 X 2] ► WINDOWS 2000 [official drivers] plus some INF tinkering, will review that one later on [HD 5970] ► WINDOWS 2000 [Blackwingcat hacks] [R9 270X] ► WINDOWS XP [official drivers] [6950XT] ► WINDOWS 7 [official drivers] ◄ currently rocking on that one under Windows 7 wing.
GRAVIS ULTRASOUND ▀ BEST DEMO MIDI FILES

GRAVIS ULTRASOUND ▀ BEST DEMO MIDI FILES

In early 90s, during days of light-hearted childhood, I used to own [Gravis Ultrasound Max] ► cool wave-table based audio card. Pretty strong rival to [Sound Blaster from Creative Labs] . Card held nice instruments in its RAM and was gooood at playing Midi files. Signal-to-noise ratio was better than in Sound Blaster, but card struggle to compete with [Pro Audio Spectrum 16] . It’s a pity that I don’t own card anymore and that is why can’t do quality pictures of it.
FiiO ▀ HI-FI ARMATURE MULTI-DRIVER EARPHONES

FiiO ▀ HI-FI ARMATURE MULTI-DRIVER EARPHONES

Do we really need expensive Sennheiser? In youth dates, I was fond of exploiting expensive audio technics.As for earphones, my favorite brand was Bayerdynamic. However, some time ago I have discovered relatively inexpensive headphones from Chinese brand [Fiio] . As a listener of wide gamut of music like ambient, trance, dub, psybient, jazz, metal: I have to say that this headphones provide totally unexpected level of audio quality. Especially if we’ll consider the price.
HOW TO REMOVE ANNOYING CONFIRMATION WINDOW WHEN COPYING FILES FROM PUTER TO CELLPHONE OVER DUMB MTP PROTOCOL

HOW TO REMOVE ANNOYING CONFIRMATION WINDOW WHEN COPYING FILES FROM PUTER TO CELLPHONE OVER DUMB MTP PROTOCOL

Of course you run into situations when you would like to copy “non-standard” files to your Android smartphone and dumb MTP protocol showed up window like this one: And this torture repeated after every new file type copied. Such imbecility can be removed by following command in admin console: regsvr32 /u wpdshext.dll That’s all, limitation is gone. Another hint, which potentially can help to overcome weird design of MTP protocol.
EVIL DEAD I/II/III ▀ STYLISH VIDEO EFFECTS OF 90s ERA

EVIL DEAD I/II/III ▀ STYLISH VIDEO EFFECTS OF 90s ERA

I think that people are sicking tired of cheap computer graphics. Everything is so plastic and unnaturally glossy these days. Miss those real video effects from early 90s. And yeah, they were so atmospheric, especially amplified effect of beam light coming out of backdrop. Evil Dead is very neat example, just look at these pieces. Make sure to watch S-Mart scene! Evil Dead I Ending Scene Evil Dead ][ Cabin Run Evil Dead ][ Ending Scene Evil Dead ]I[ S-Mart End BLOG UPDATE ► full theme refactoring, made it more 90’ish, RGB and stuff, you know what i’m saying, fixed some issues
REVIVING MY BEST MODS EVER TIK-TOK CHANNEL

REVIVING MY BEST MODS EVER TIK-TOK CHANNEL

Sometime ago i had YT channel with best [tracker MODS] ever. When i’ve reached almost 10.000 of subs i was permanently banned, without any strikes on copyrighted content. Anyways, I was posting content under terms of “fair use”. Today i’ve decided to revive the channel on new platform and in a bit different wrapping - 60 sec loops instead of posting whole tracks. I don’t like TT too much, but want to try it out.
RANT ABOUT INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES

RANT ABOUT INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES

Straight’n’essential advice: do not use google, yahoo, bing, yandex, rambler or mail.ru. More trust goes out to [DuckDuckGo] . However, even they have not so good reputation if we look into the past dealings with Yahoo. Use [StartPage] if you want to get results similar to google, but beware that they are not exactly the same. Startpage removes some stuff and adds some of it’s own. In general, it is proxy to google with so-called de-anonymized search queries.
HACKERS ▀ WHEN 'PUTERS WERE FUN

HACKERS ▀ WHEN 'PUTERS WERE FUN

The Hackers [1995] - I hope you don't screw like you type. - It has a killer refresh rate. - P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. - It's not just the chip. It has a PCI bus. - But... you knew that. Another qoute, which i remembered for life. - It's got a 28.8 bps modem. - Yeah? Display? - Active matrix. - A million psychedelic colours.
IT CROWD ▀ VISTA? WE ARE GOING TO DIE, ROY!!!!

IT CROWD ▀ VISTA? WE ARE GOING TO DIE, ROY!!!!

Moss: What kind of operating system does it use? Bomb guy: Vista! Moss to Roy: We are going to die! Actually, Vista was not so bad after all these service packs. However, in golden release it was really awful: problems with USB speeds, GUI performance issues and so on. As for looks, I like it soooo much and even [transformed my Windows 7] into Windows Vista. Will post a note regarding this transformation in a while.
IMPROVING FIREFOX PRIVACY & SECURITY ▀ ADDONS [PART I]

IMPROVING FIREFOX PRIVACY & SECURITY ▀ ADDONS [PART I]

UPDATED ON: 2025-10-18 Addons, addons, addons!! So many of them! How to choice the right one? Whom to trust to? I will help you with your findings and share my personal kit. Rule of thumb: do not install too much addons, they will slow down your browser noticeably! ░ SECURITY ADDONS [uMatrix] ► best content blocker ever, even better than uBlock [Github archive] [Ublock Origin] ► an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
WHY WINDOWS 10/11/12 ARE SHIT?

WHY WINDOWS 10/11/12 ARE SHIT?

UPDATED ON: 2023-11-23 There are already plenty of excellent articles explaining why [WINDOWS 10] / [WINDOWS 11] IS A COMPLETE SH#T. So, I better be quick not to be pain in the neck or a master of boredom. Essential question: “Why you don’t like modern Windows?” Ah, yeah… one more new link, even better than previous! [A THOUSAND REASONS NOT TO USE WINDOWS 10] ░ DESIGNED BY MARKETING PEOPLE… …not engineers
SOME NOTES ON SONY XPERIA XZ1 COMPACT

SOME NOTES ON SONY XPERIA XZ1 COMPACT

UPDATED ON: 2023-02-16 I’m not a big fan of Sony smartphones. Yeah, their products almost always packed with technology, but in terms of engineering ideas and realization things they suck pretty badly. Same point of view regarding their photography division. But nevertheless I’m using Sony XZ1 Compact as my main portable web gateway on daily basis. Using it due to ultra-compact size and no alternatives available. It’s a 2017 flagship, based upon Snapdragon 835 CPU and paired with 4Gb of RAM.
HOW TO OPEN LINKS IN A NEW TAB IN MAINROAD HUGO THEME

HOW TO OPEN LINKS IN A NEW TAB IN MAINROAD HUGO THEME

I bet that many of you would like to open site links not in the same window, but in a background tab. Such behavior is restricted by default settings of most Hugo themes. Mainroad is restricting it also. Here is a solution on how to overcome weird limitation. Create file render-link.html in _default folder of the theme. Name_of_your_site\themes\mainroad\layouts\_default\_markup\render-link.html Contents of render-link.html should be like this: <a href="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}"{{ with .
SELECTING YOUR WINDOWS & ANDROID BROWSER

SELECTING YOUR WINDOWS & ANDROID BROWSER

UPDATED ON: 2023-02-20 Note is totally rewritten to match 2023 reality. Today it is not an easy task to do. There are plenty browsers out there. “So, what is the problem?” you may ask. Most of them are based upon google chrome. This means that all of them are dialing back to google to share your private data. That’s the main problem. Here is my personal list of browsers that I use in a daily workflow on Windows machine: Main surfer: [Iceweasel 110] ► replaced IceCat For visiting geo-restricted sites: [TorBrowser 12.
I OFTEN GET ASKED WHY I HAVE SUCH CRAPPY BLOG IMAGES

I OFTEN GET ASKED WHY I HAVE SUCH CRAPPY BLOG IMAGES


UPDATED ON: 2023-10-01

Answer is very plain’n’simple. I like look of png compression especially with Floyd–Steinberg dither filter applied.
Image aesthetics become soooo 80s’ish and this is so, cool! And yeah, I’m saving space of [Codeberg project] on which my blog is hosting.
Thanks to all of them. They even helped me out to setup initial repository of the project. Very neat guys, to say the least.

REMOVE TELEMETRY & SPYING UPDATES ON WINDOWS 7

REMOVE TELEMETRY & SPYING UPDATES ON WINDOWS 7

UPDATED ON: 2023-08-12 Added microsoft hosts, fixed errors. If you have any suggestions or I’ve missed something [please drop me a line] . ► SOME PREFACE WORDS THE MOST COMPLETE LIST OF MALWARE UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT GROUPED BY CATEGORIES. List of updates without links to original ms site due to deletion. KB prefix removed. 454826 971033 2922324 2976987 3012973 3014460 3015249 3022345 3068707 3074677 3090045 3102812 4012218 UNINFORMED ABOUT PRIVACY STARTER PACK FUN FACT: microsoft already not only hiding, but deleting important information regarding “bad updates” from search engines like google.
WWF ARCADE ▀ BEST FIGHTING GAME EVER

WWF ARCADE ▀ BEST FIGHTING GAME EVER

Everybody count Mortal Kombat on PC or King of the Fighters on NeoGeo as best fighting games ever. I have another opinion on that. The most dynamic and neck-breaking fighting game is WWF. World Wrestling Federation. Fluid VGA animations and cool atmosphere, spiced-up with best combo system in the world, that’s the key to neat fighting game. It is extremely underrated! In my childhood i’ve managed to do 32-hit combo by Shawn Michaels.
LIST OF THE MOST CRUCIAL WINDOWS 7 SP1+ SERVICES

LIST OF THE MOST CRUCIAL WINDOWS 7 SP1+ SERVICES


UPDATED ON: 2024-11-18

Just a simple list of the most important services of Windows 7.
Whatever happens - don’t disable them.
Services are programs, which are automatically loading into memory of your computer during start-up time.
Services are always hanging around in computer’s RAM in background mode. Alternative name: resident programs.
That is why it is so important to cut most of them to free valuable memory up for your personal applications.