Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Zuma Deluxe or other flash games won’t fill the whole screen? Or they won’t full screen? Or they have black borders?

Monday, July 16th, 2012

Hey, everyone.

My mom complained about a problem recently, where Zuma Blitz didn’t fill her entire screen when she opened it.  It was set to full screen, but wouldn’t.

When I looked this up, it looks like everybody has a similar problem with other games.  Descriptions were like, “There are black borders around my game” or “my game only does full screen partially” and such.

I found one post by CndnPhoenix at the Big Fish forums–it said to look up “Fullscreen Aspect” or such for your video settings.

a) centered
b) to fill the screen
c) to keep the original aspect of the application.

With C being the “default.”

That means that the games that come with a smaller (squarer) resolution, will be seen that way, instead of stretched to fill the screen. (Unless, of course, the game adds this feature/option, themselves.)   So what needs to be done is to change the ‘default aspect ratio’ of your video card.

You can find the whole post here about fixing your full screen black barsp roblem.

Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.1.6 having “The Specified Module can not be found”

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

So, I had the above problem when trying to install those.

How did I fix it?

I found this topic:

http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=859

then, looked up the page linked in the Wayback archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20061006022158/http://www.apachelounge.com/download/

And got the following file:

http://www.apachelounge.com/download/mods/php5apache2.dll-php5.1.x.zip

Stay cool, broheims.

Windows 7 Installing Japanese (Or LIPs Languages)

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Thank god for good internet posts.

This post about solving the Windows 7 Language Installation saved my butt.

I got Japanese installed after installing Windows 7. (Having some “RAID” versus “AHCI” problems.)

Now, the problem is getting the data off my old NTFS file system without tainting it.. :(

Also, I use Chrome now.  Firefox can go fuck itself.. sorry FFox.