I’ve been with my current company for 10+ years (at the time of writing.) It’s been a roller-coaster ride with ownership changing hands several times. But I’ve managed to hang on and I’m still riding even after the most recent change in drivers. Unfortunately, many have fallen out over the years and that leaves me to do two jobs: Web programmer and IT Administrator. Finding time to do both jobs well can be a problem to say the least. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a screencast video I made to demonstrate downloading the ie7 installer (the installer still does a WGA check but once you have the file, you can try and hack it.) I used firefox so I could pretend to be a browser running ie in windows to get past the first check. This is hard to see (I should have set my resolution higher.) By the way, I did not discover this. I heard it on a TWiT podcast and wanted to confirm this. So much for WGA checking.

Note: I should have increased my screen resolution. If you want to read what I did, follow the embedded youtube link.