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Happy Holidays!
2007-12-25 01:09:00 Sending Ecards was pretty boring until I found JibJab. JibJab allows you to create little animations with your and your friends heads in it. It’s really fun, see for yourself: More About: Video , Software , Holidays , Happy Holidays , Happy
Music over Bluetooth
2007-12-14 18:46:00 If there is something I don’t like about wireless technology, it’s Bluetooth . It never worked the way I wanted. Some say it’s a matter of the stack (Bluetooth software) and some say you need to buy the best dongles. I used BlueSoleil, then Widcomm and now Toshiba, started off with Bluetooth 1.2 with a ... More About: Hardware , Music , Computer
Artido coupon from McDonalds
2007-12-12 20:12:00 Every year, we have a raffle in Germany from McDonalds called Monopoly. You can win several things there, but most coupons are pretty useless, just like the one from Artido. The coupon lets you buy something and get ? 20 off the price, but everything there costs at least ? 33.90. Wait, execpt for the ... More About: Coupon , Mcdonalds
The Vista Battle
2007-12-08 23:41:00 I have been using Microsoft programs for a long time now and I have seen a lot of BSDs (Blue Screen of Death), but they usually occur when some application or hardware crashes or when you changed something in your system. 2 days ago, I experienced a somewhat unexpected BSD. More About: Software , Computer , Vista , Battle
hosting toy - Keyweb VRS Start
2007-12-04 23:03:00 I used to share a root server with some friends of mine. This allowed us to use a high performance server at a relatively low cost. I use to pay a share of € 40 a month, which is quite a lot. So we decided to move to several small virtualized servers. With VDSL 50, ... More About: Hosting , Computer , Start
my first car
2007-12-03 05:22:00 When you live in Berlin, a car isn’t really nessecary. You can get anywhere with public transportation. But in the winter or at night, a car is much more comfortable. That’s why my girlfriend and me bought a car together. After testing a few cars, we decided to get a Volkswagen Lupo. It’s a ... More About: Auto
Beautiful music ? Katie Melua
2007-10-19 23:09:00 Every time I entered the subway a few months ago, I saw a poster of Katie Melua . Who is she? What is she performing? I don?t know, never heard of her before and honestly, I don’t have much interest in finding out either. It stayed this way until a few days ago, I heard a ... More About: Music , Beautiful
Clockwise or counter-clockwise?
2007-10-15 22:02:00 If you see her spinning around clockwise, you’re a (more) creative person. Everyone else seeing her spinning counter-clockwise is more logic oriented. When I first looked at the picture, she was turning counter-clockwise and after a few seconds, she turned around and spinned clockwise. But after focusing on her shadow, she started spinning counter-clockwise again. ... More About: Counter
Toshiba Portégé R400 ? Noble but disappointing
2007-10-11 22:22:00 I?ve been using my R400 for a while now and I have to say it?s simply great! I won it in Toshi ba ?s ?Love to Lead? Contest, so l didn?t pay the ? 3499 it is worth. But if you look at its specs, the price seems to be adequate for a convertible Tablet PC: ... More About: Hardware , Computer , Noble
slow upload, high download
2007-10-01 22:26:00 I have a Windows 2003 SBS at home and because Windows doesn’t support VLANs natively, I use Vmware to run a virtual opensuse router. This works perfectly fine for all systems except for the host OS itself. On my host OS, my download speed was around 3.5 MB/s, which is just fine, but the upload ... More About: Software , Download , Computer , High , Slow
O2 Service or ?things O2 only does to keep a customer?
2007-09-22 13:51:00 I used to have the ?Genion S Online? plan from O2 Germany, which costs ? 10 / month. For ? 5 more each month, I had a ?Wap & Email Flatrate?, which allowed me to surf and email on my mobile device. With 100 free SMS each month, I was even satisfied with ? 0.19 ... More About: Hardware , Service , Customer , Things
VDSL without IPTV
2007-09-17 22:25:00 A few days ago, I received a letter from T-Com confirming my order of T-Home Entertainment Comfort with VDSL 25. I never ordered it, especially not on September 10th, where I had been in China. Anyway, I didn’t want VDSL 25 when I already have VDSL 50 and I didn’t want IPTV either because I ... More About: Hardware
Microsoft PPTP VPN and Susefirewall2
2007-08-10 07:25:00 How do I get these two working together without additional tools like pptpproxy? That was a question I had for a long time and finally there is a solution. On a forum, I found a post that allows GRE connections through the default openSUSE firewall. So here is the working configuration for my openSUSE ... More About: Microsoft , Suse
Cook your own Artemis/O2 Xda Orbit
2007-08-01 20:42:00 Modifying your PPC (PocketPC) software is called “cooking” in the PPC world. People who change the software are the “chefs” and the development environment is of course the “kitchen”. But the result is called ROM. More About: Hardware , Cook , Orbit , Artem
perfect cell phone?
2007-07-10 00:15:00 Last Thursday, my new cell phone arrived. It?s the O2 Xda Orbit, a branded version of the HTC Artemis P3300, filled with useful features like GPS and Wireless LAN. As a Nokia fan, it was really hard to resist the N95, but I?m more than happy with my choice. More About: Hardware , Phone , Cell Phone , Computer , Cell
Rescuing offline files in Vista from other user accounts
2007-07-03 00:11:00 I never thought that this would happen, but it did. The “My Documents” folder has probably become one of the most important folders I use, so it needs to be backed up, which I did. I had them on my server, on my notebook and on my desktop computer. With my old server having raid ... More About: Software , Offline , Computer , Vista , User
RAID 6
2007-06-20 02:46:00 I have been quite busy lately, but I managed to buy myself a RAID 6 system. I used to have a RAID 5 with 4 harddrives but I guess that’s just not secure enough. I am a lazy person, so I am sure that I won’t replace a broken hard disk immediately. With RAID 5, ... More About: Hardware , Computer , Raid
Telekom Support
2007-05-26 10:40:00 Telekom, T-Com, T-Home or whatever they are calling themselves now is my ISP for VDSL 50. So if you have read my previous entries, you already know that it is not working as expected. First, my download rate is less than 20 Mbit, which is okay if you have VDSL 25, but not if you ... More About: Hardware , Support , Telekom
5 days in Italy
2007-05-10 00:14:00 Just a week ago, my parents decided to go on a trip to Italy . They had some free time there and wanted to see the most famous sights there. We have been to Venice, but no other cities. So I had to organize an 5 day Italy trip only 2 days in advance. Well, after ... More About: Days
VDSL50 by T-Com
2007-04-11 01:48:00 Today, I finally got VDSL. Actually, I was supposted to get it 2 weeks ago, but T-Com managed to have a shortage on the VDSL2 hardware (and refused me to pick some up from one of their stores where there was hardware) and then after I got the hardware, they needed 1 week to activate ...
Stadler, biggest bike shop I?ve seen
2007-04-08 00:49:00 As my girlfriend decided to go on a bike tour with her little sister next week, a new bike was needed. Also, her old bike, which is her little sister’s bike now, needed to be tuned street safe and easy to drive. So first, we went to “Real” a supermarket chain. They had some really ... More About: Bike , Shop
first confrontation with AJAX
2007-03-30 01:58:00 AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which is an old technique which has gotten very popular now. The best example for this is Google Suggest. The site reacts instantly to your input without reloading the page. More About: With , Ajax , First , Front , Confrontation
Mozilla Firefox cursor bug
2007-03-23 18:21:00 It seems like Fire fox has a problem with disabled and re-enabled text input fields. Once deactivated and then reactivated, the blinking cursor disappears. It is also not possible to see the selection. Although everything works just fine, it is pretty annoying. Here is the solution for this problem. It involves Javascript, but you probably won’t ... More About: Mozilla Firefox , Mozilla , Cursor
iRiver Clix
2007-03-17 15:45:00 Here is the next round in headphone testing at Gravis. This time, I brought my iriver clix with me. The iriver clix is the successor of the iriver U10. It actually looks just like the U10. The only difference is that it has a better chip and more space (up to 4 GB). Iriver mp3 ... More About: River , Clix
Highspeed Internet
2007-03-13 00:16:00 Until now, I have been using Q-DSL from QSC for my internet connection. The main reason is the high upload rate (1 MBit with SHDSL) which is probably the most you could get. Another reason for choosing QSC is that they don’t have the 24h disconnect. The 24h disconnect is a weird phenomenon which only ... More About: Internet , Inter , Speed , High , Intern
the bottle collectors
2007-03-10 14:28:00 When you walk around in China, you can find people walking around and collecting empty bottles. I always thought this phenomenon only exists in not-yet industrialized countries. The people are so poor that collecting those bottles and selling them to a garbage dealer allows them to make enough money to survive. But during the last ... More About: Bottle , Coll , Collector
Is euthanasia fundamental to a civilised society?
2007-03-09 13:12:00 This is a very sensitive topic that will split the readers’ and writers’ opinions. Some of us may have already been confronted with it and this makes it hard to have an impartial view on it. More About: Society , Fun , Mental , Asia , Men
Can money buy happiness?
2007-03-04 14:36:02 What is Happiness ? It?s a feeling that describes the very positive state of one person. Even though we differ from each other, the cause for happiness is equal. Happiness is the state where all of that our desires are fulfilled. So can money buy happiness? (more…) More About: Money , Ness
connect to internet via command line
2007-03-01 02:34:01 After using Windows Vista, I wondered if it was still possible to connect to internet via VPN (Virtual Private Network) or DUN (Dial-Up Networking) though the command line. Well, it works just like before in XP. The command for connecting is (replace name with the name of the connection): rasphone.exe -t "name" The command for disconnecting is: rasphone.exe -h "name" More About: Internet , Inter , Line , Connect , Comm
Is hate a stronger emotion than love?
More articles from this author:2007-02-24 02:30:02 It?s probably not very hard to see that sadly, the nice project ?Love to Lead? has been sabotaged and it has become impossible for the real contributors to win. A ? 3000 prize for a simple blog article will lure cheaters and there is no way to prevent this. (more…) More About: Hate , Hat , Motion , Tron 1, 2, 3 |
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