Category: computerwelt

I got an e-mail recently from my dear host in Denmark that they are changing the backend for their hosting business, which boils down to migrating migraines. Not that I’m complaining, the existing system is pretty limited, but I don’t pay for the Control Panel bits; all I want is sFTP, SSH services and the […]

The son of a friend of mine from the Middle East will be attending Norwegian classes in Oslo this school year, and to that occasion my work place decided to setup a laptop for him. It was a rolled-out Dell Latitude D620, and having replaced the hard disk drive I opted for Ubuntu 10.04 as […]

As most of you who have used Ubuntu will know, you cannot watch DVDs on systems (even outside the US) without installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras (or their kubuntu or xubuntu siblings) that installs some restricted packages that are illegal in some countries. What is new as of recently, AFAIK, is that you have to download and […]

Live blogging from a meeting. Excited yet? BORED. We’ve got four salesmen (one female) sitting around the round table selling us their SharePoint solution. We’re one and a half hour into this meeting, which is one of four that I’m required to attend, and I’ve finally come to the realization that it’s a complete waste […]

Though the title makes USB viruses sound very exotic, I have found that they are in fact more common in Africa than elsewhere. Ask yourself: how often have you connected a USB pen drive to a friend’s computer and come back home with a nasty virus inside? I’d gather internet café machines and other shared […]

I don’t see why the USA, EU or any other international or domestic entity would embrace the patent philosophy which does NOT in its current form protect the artist, programmer or entrepreneur’s interests; thus maintaining the ancient rule of de facto hierarchies and monopolies, as well as preventing innovation in a world where it is […]

Google recently launched a new communication platform which aims to be a replacement for traditional e-mail, instant messaging, blog and bug posting as well as online collaboration tools. The scary thing is not that it’s new and unfamiliar to us here and now, or that it still is really buggy and takes a lot of […]

As regular readers will have noticed I have been spammed the last couple of months through the blog comments. I had a hard time keeping the comments clear of spam messages in certain blog posts, but that was because my b2 blacklist module was wrongly configured (and I had reached a max limit). The situation […]

The FS Esprimo Mobile is a consumer-targeted and cheap laptop for light home use, emphasis on cheap, which arrived the market sometime in 2008 as far as I know. It comes with a 1 year warranty, as is only too normal when it comes to cheap devices (e.g. cheap hardware), so consider extending it if […]

As your comatose relative(s) may have completely failed to notice, Sigg3.net’s database was down and up and down the last couple of days. At first it was deemed a configuration issue but it turned out I had churned out more words than my megabytes of storage could allow for. This could happen again! So just […]