New PC & moving itunes library
Update 30/07/2009I just bought an imac and moved the same, but now consolidated, library over to it. Check out the instructions here. Whoohoo! My new hardware has arrived, last week. I’ve been busy...
View Articlewlan gone paranoid
My new PC has a smc wlan pci card. It seems to work very nicely with none of the problems my previous siemens usb stick had. However, I appear to be not connected, currently. Which is strange since I...
View Articlegood headphones
I enjoy listening to good music. In my opinion good music is good because it sounds good on anything from a cheap mono transistor radio to the most expensive badass soundset money can buy. However,...
View Articlex-plane 8.32
The previous time I posted about x-plane, it was to comment on the then newly released world scenery, which at the time I could only admire via the provided screenshots. Also I was waiting to order a...
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suspend to ram
Over the years I’ve encountered, and resolved many annoying software issues with Microsoft. This one surely counts as one of the more annoying ones. The problem is that my previous PC had a beautiful...
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reinstalling windows sucks
Luckily my parents laptop came with a windows xp pro cd and a valid product key. So, after backing up important files using ubuntu, I proceeded to install windows. I had forgotten how annoying...
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porsche gets some good testdrive
It’s only two days ago that I bought myself a Lacie Porsche 0.5 TB usb drive. Yesterday evening, after a reboot caused by an apple security update weird shit started to happen. Basically windows...
View ArticleAntec SmartPower 2.0 500 Watt review
What happened yesterday was that I got home on monday and tried to restore the pc from standby (where it had been since friday morning). I then went into the kitchen to get some food and when I came...
View ArticleHead tracking
I stumbled on two interesting programs that effectively turn my webcam into a head tracking device. The first one is a reasonably priced commercial package called Cachya. They have a trial version...
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Modular windows
There is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas...
View ArticleTotaled my Porsche
As you might recall I bought a pair of Lacie Porsche 500GB disks some time ago. Well, a few weeks ago the power supply of one of them began making funny noises and it was getting harder to start up the...
View ArticleFailing power supply
In April 2007, I replaced a broken power supply in my PC with a Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supply. Check my review here. A few days ago, my pc has started producing a high pitched noise. Really...
View ArticleMac at home
Since I’m quite happy with the mac at work. I’m half convinced that I might want one at home. One problem though. The imacs on sale are crap. They’re nice configurations, for 2006. But why the hell...
View Articleimac 24″
Saturday morning I turned on my PC and basically the screen did not come on (I have it on standby). Suspicious but has happened before. So I press the powerbutton to do a reset and then it did single...
View ArticleMigrating iTunes windows to Mac
As part of my recent imac purchase came the chore of moving stuff over from my old hard drive which thankfully survived my old PC’s premature demise. Part of the stuff that I naturally wanted to...
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