Category: computerwelt

Today I received three 1 TB single-interface USB 2 disks from Western Digital. The much anticipated, and angstfully dreaded, WDE1U10000E. Let’s hope they aren’t as much trouble as the WD500 series turned out to be. Maybe in response to the failures of the internal power in those models they’ve changed the shape of this one […]

If you haven’t heard it already, Google has released its own web browser based on the work of several small companies the search engine giant bought up in the past. The result is Google Chrome. Like everything else from the google labs, it’s still in its beta stage, and the bug reports are long and […]

As I promised while having a go at the Asus EeePC 900 I would do a quick look at the MSI Wind which I ordered at the same time. Please note throughout this "preview" that this particular model had a regular SATA drive, that is a mechanical disk drive, as opposed to a Solid state […]

I got into the office this evenong to do some audio recording. I’m still on holiday so I wasn’t intending to do any work, but at my desk I found three packages I’ve been expecting for a long time: the Lenovo ThinkPad X300, an MSI Wind and the Asus EeePC. In my line of work […]

Just thought I’d give you a heads up. I haven’t had the time, energy or willpower to make an effort to update this site for a while, but things are changing. Especially since Koew gave me so many good recommendations for reading material on design, usability, flexibility, search engine optimization, premature porn prevention and general […]

This isn’t exactly news, because the firmware was made available 26th of March but I only saw this yesterday when I was recommended to upgrade my phone to install the new Nokia Maps app: Nokia N95 software version 21.0.016 released – 26 March 2008 This software version includes Flash Lite 3 support (enabling users to […]

Here’s a quick interview with the original creator of my favourite OS, namely Zenwalk GNU/Linux for the desktop user. Jean-Philippe Guillemin, age 36, started Zenwalk (then known as Minislack) as a personal expansion project and to simplify his own installation processes. Today, he’s mainly leadership responsibilities like administration tools development, kernel configuration, Desktop design, and […]

Since I don’t use the default Zenwalk boot loader, lilo, I was left with the rather boring black and white GRUB interface at boot. If you only use one OS you can safely set timeout to null (0) or use lilo instead, but I need to have the option of booting alternative OS’es. But how […]

I’ve been waiting to send some 150 pictures from my trip to Rome to my father, but have been reluctant since each picture is 2mb+ in size. They were originally in huge resolutions as well, which my father wouldn’t take much joy from given his 1024×768 screen res. Of course I could resize them manually […]

Just got this work-related order sent to Amazon: The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) – Dave Shea  Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and and CSS – Dan Cederholm  Introducing Character Animation with Blender – Tony Mullen  Learning XSLT – Michael Fitzgerald  […]