Category: computerwelt

I have bought around 20 of Dell’s "new" Latitude E-series notebooks, ranging from the 12" E4200 to the 14" E6400 (ATG as well), as hardware upgrades to the machine park where I work. They are good looking machines, and potentially excellent companions as well, but we have experienced a range of errors from the horrifying […]

Whether you like it or not, Windows 7 is in the making, and you can fetch your free copy of the release candidate evaluation version RIGHT NOW. The license key you receive will be valid until the 1st of June next year. Micro$oft.com writes: Watch the calendar. The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. […]

Internet Explorer 8 is out. And it still doesn’t render my fully validated XHTML 1.0 STRICT / CSS 2 version of this site. (Not the one you’re watching.) Oh well. Better luck next time!

Following what I said on Monday regarding the home.no.net sites, I’ve now moved all the home.no.net sites that I could remember. They can now be found at their permanent grave @ sigg3.net/users/homenonet/. I’ll let you know when I’ve uploaded all the mp3 files. I am not sure if this is all of the sites I […]

My former band CRESCENT currently at http://devoted.to/grunge will lose its nice URL as of April 30th, as Bravenet announced they are closing down free redirects/fast URLs in an e-mail sent to me before the weekend. In addition the band page’s free server, Home.no.net, is closing down as of the 1st of May 2009 according to […]

Today (Monday) I had the honor of listening to one of the founding fathers of Free Software as we know it. Mister Free Software Himself, namely Richard Stallman. If you haven’t read the Zenwalk or Slackware manual, or are into the politics and philosophy of computing and software, you may not realise what an important […]

The Word Fuck has been the one keyword to attract the most visitors to Sigg3.net for many years, closely followed by t.A.T.u, Christina Ricci and Female of the Year related posts. So other keywords that occur much less frequently are usually more interesting. And why they were ultimately brought here is anyone’s guess (though I’ve […]

This information is cut and pasted from this post by SAM the administrator of TRIVUz Network, of which many are found in the Nokia N95 reference manual, for my own use and reference. If I find any more I may need, they will be added to the list. *#06# IMEI number (International Mobile Equipment Identity) […]

Following my my brother’s post a couple of hours ago showing off his stats for 2008, I realized it had been quite a while since I did a roundup of the latest website statistics and followed suit. Here’s my website report for 2008 according to Google Analytics, dnScoop and Webalizer: Site Usage 1st Jan 2008 […]

The Chaos Computer Club in Germany has released an advisory and a demonstration of a vulnerability for a whole range of Nokia cellphones using the Symbian 60 OS. The exploit is called Curse of Silence, because an SMS silently entering your cellphone makes it impossible to receive SMS or MMS’s until the phone is restored […]