Category: computerwelt

I had an encounter with an old Wireless cardbus adapter (HWC54G). It had this warning written on it: This devices complies with Part 15 of the Rules. Operation is subject to the following to conditions: 1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and 2) this device must accept any interference that may cause undesired […]

Needless to say, I’ve changed the skype handle of this week’s victim. <Zang> i watched a horror movie last night. ‘dead meat’ <sigg3net> any good? <Zang> nothing, just think that the reality is good <sigg3net> what? <Zang> treasure the normal life, that is my thoughts now <sigg3net> so you’re not thinking about killing everybody with […]

..’cause they can bend the fabrics of space and time. This message arrived at my gmail two minutes before I sent it. In order to do so I think Google must be affiliated with the devil himself. It’s something I learned from Hellraiser. Just saying.

Short version: disable smooth scrolling in your AbiWord.profile file Today everyone should know that Open Office (OO.O) is great, and I have a grandmother using it, cousins and people who would otherwise have no relation whatsoever to its public licences. I have both Microsoft Office 2000 (+ Office 2007 compatibility pack) and OpenOffice 2.0 installed […]

Just around the time I was getting ready to leave work today, the system administrator came with an urgent call. The Boss wanted his damaged Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P7010 on a journey the following day, but the hard disk was damaged. Could I replace the hard drive, oh, and backup all of his private pictures […]

Today I received a completely new Dell XPS M1210 at work, which is one of the few Dells I actually quite like, being small, "road-ready" and powerful. I’ve already set up one of these before, and when I told our sales guy at Dell how impressed I was he could tell me that most of […]

Facebook account deactivated Hi all, after careful consideration I’ve found that my number of online memberships and hangouts have exceeded what I deem a sensible amount. Given that Facebook replaces or enhances none of the existing communication platforms I already use, I’ve decided to deactivate my account. As for the alleged privacy issues of Facebook, […]

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This infamous string of code is the D-DVD processing key for most movies released so far, published on the net by the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) a couple of days ago by mistake. It has stirred up quite a riot in the IT world. 09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0 Apparently some very, very rich people in the entertainment […]

During the installation and setup of any linux distro using the Lilo bootloader, it is quite comfortable to know that you can change or erase the password of the root account if something should go wrong. What happened to me was that the system locale (language) simply made typing my password impossible. If you use […]