Category: computerwelt

The Pirate Bay aka TPB is a website that hosts a huge repository of .torrent files, which are text-files with the equivalent of the following quote: "Hello! I have a file to share!" with references to the originator and his/her file that s/he wants to share. According to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) it […]

I had some problems getting TextRoom up and running on Fedora 17, so I thought I might share my findings with you. TextRoom is a non-intrusive Word processor for authors (with built-in ogg player) that promises a distraction free writing experience. There are some screenshots on the bottom of that page. It is available for […]

The next time people ask me why I don’t use Facebook, I’ll show them this:

If you are anything like me, you can’t help fiddling with stuff that works, in order to make it stop working. Last night, as the grand finale of a major network overhaul (we now have 2 networks at home, different IP ranges, but with cross-communication) I decided to check for firmware updates for my DIR-825 […]

Here’s the quick and dirty way to get the proprietary ATI ‘fglrx’ driver up and running on OpenSUSE 12.1 64-bit and 32-bit systems. Why blog about this when there must be hundreds of great wikis out there to cover the issue? None of them worked 100%. Here’s a way that works: Download latest driver from […]

I’ve been working with large video files lately, files that are too large for regular storage media. I’ve come to learn how much better ffmpeg is at these jobs than the graphical tools. Mainly because the graphical ones draw more resources and require more fiddling about, in total taking more time than a short command. […]

The ReadyNas NVX and its similarly named siblings have a good reputation in terms of 4-disk NAS units, but are considered very noisy. I have read that changing the stock fan on these units make them quieter, as well as making sure you have the latest firmware updates. Here’s how to change the stock fan […]

All I get from Tomwaits.com and anti.com right now is: Message: Too many connections I guess the announcement of a new Tom Waits album (yes, that’s what anti.com said yesterday) will attract some global attention. Well, you know what they say in Germany.. Die Käse oder nichts! (en. "The Cheese or Nothing!")

I had great plans and a lot of work to do when I sat down by the laptop this evening when I experienced that the USB tether function of my Google Nexus S wasn’t all that plug-and-play it was jacked up to be. Here’s the gist of it, much thanks to Markus at the xda-developers.com […]

Norway’s largest telco and ISP Telenor has been down country-wide since 1 pm today, effectively shutting off Internet customers — as well as 2G and 3G networks — i.e. me. There are 2 tele-networks in Norway: Telenor and Netcom. The rest of the phone service providers just rent traffic volume from the two, meaning that […]