Nov 21

It’s already 8 years, when the first movie from trilogy came out. After a couple of times, watching it with friends at the beginning I liked it. Some interesting ideas, scenario approaches, story line.

Comparing it with those released in 1999, was awesome. But I’ve never thought of the facts like:

  • Agent Smith looks like a typical garbage collector with AI encapsulations. Could you imagine this utility with some humour and irony nowadays.
  • Neo. A tiny bug in the system with machine learning capabilities. Of course, later on we’ll understand that’s not just a simple bug, however knowing the story in full, looks a bit amusing.
  • Piphia, or a lady with a vase. Statistical path analyser. Looks like a Best-cost algorithm with some sophisticated evaluation functionality and a sense of humour. So you shouldn’t worry about the vase!
  • Cypher, or a bad good guy. A very very greedy bug - impossible of being fixed - thus, rewritten from scratch or simply deleted.
  • Switch,or the only girl in white. Very small and fast transition from “enable” to “disable” states in the movie!
  • Mouse, or lady-in-red boyfriend. C’mon, there should be at least one kid hacker, otherwise that’s not a hacker movie!

Waiting to watch the Reload, hopefully, so more amusing computer alternatives will appear which I didn’t noticed back to its premier.

Nov 8

Finally, I’ve got time to fix this bug.

After upgrading my Internet Explorer 6 up to the seventh version, Add/Remove window in Control Panel wasn’t loading. After a bit of googling the problem was solved:

1.win+r, load “regedit32″
2.Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
3.SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> -> Uninstall
4.Find “ie7″ folder and in the right side menu look for for “Uninstall string” row
5.Follow the Uninstall string and extract .exe file which will handle uninstalling IE7.
6.Restart your PC.

After it, everything loads fine now. The only disadvantage - you’ve got your Internet Explorer 6 back :)