Marcus Groeber ⁽¹⁷⁾

Adobe Refresh Manager / Acrobat Update Service After uninstalling Adobe Acrobat through Settings > Apps, I noticed that the "Acrobat Update Service" was still running, even after a reboot. There are some suggestions (e.g. here) for uninstalling it by manually stopping services and deleting files,…

I have always been a Windows guy, so this tends to remain my primary desktop environment, even when working on code that ultimately gets run on other platforms. Even though much of my development happens in Visual Studio Code these days (or an agentic fork…

GEOS fails with a KR-09 at startup in DOSBox This one mainly happens when you try older versions of GEOS (e.g. Breadbox Ensemble, GlobalPC) in certain flavors of DOSBox emulators that default to Codepage 858 instead of 437 (e.g. DOSBox-X and probably also DOSBox Staging).

Here are some Windows utilities that helped me out of a bind at least once... ntldrismissing.com - Miles Comer's "magic" boot disk that can recover from some situations where a Windows XP machine produces the "NTLDR is missing" message, for example after defragmenting the hard…

It seems that browser-based simulations using three.js have become a kind of de-facto standard for exploring the capabilities of coding models to quickly "one-shot" prototypes and ideas. Following an idea that i had in the back of my mind for quite a while now --…