Here is a tip for backing up all those product keys you have on your system today (be that the key to your CD burner software or the latest version of World of Warcraft). We all hate to reinstall our PC, but every now and again it is necessary. One of the very annoying things […]
Linux warning; Debian/Ubuntu and other linux installations are in extreme risk as a very serious vulnerability has been discovered that can allow relatively easy bruteforcing security codes generated with the affected systems. Truth be told I don’t know much about linux so I cant really describe what the problem is and how it may affect […]
Microsoft has (some time ago actually) released a utility (or security addon if you wish) for Windows XP called Steadystate; http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx What is does is basically to add very strict control to your desktop and to allow for guest or kiosk pc’s. Lets say you administer a library pc, and daily have to deal with users […]
As you may know, Google have for a long time had a translation service (equal to the Babelfish service on Altavista.com), the new thing is that it now offer translation to and from Danish also… It is even capable of dealing with the famous sentence “Rødgrød med fløde!” (a Danish sentence that is almost impossible to pronounce […]
JEROME J. NIEDERMEIER, United States Magistrate Judge. has ruled in favour of the defendant in a case of a subpoenaed Password for a laptop. The case concerned a computer user which laptop was ceased during a border-crossing, the laptop allegedly contained child porn but was encrypted using PGP, a grand jury had subpoenaed the defendant […]
I was just browsing for the Philips amBX speaker solution (basically an ambilight solution for the pc, which I btw found out is hideously expensive) when I stumbled over this cool do-it-yourself project for next winter (a backlit livingroom wallmount for your lcd/plasma), have a look at; http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6954036 for a demo on the more expensive […]
A bit of old news here, but it would seem I’m a journalist – cool 🙂 maybe I’ll demand a raise 😉 For more on why that is and why this is a good thing http://www.tranism.com/weblog/2007/10/
After firmware upgrading my Sony Ericsson K800i I suddenly found myself unable to download Google Maps www.google.com/gmm which was very annoying as its quite a neat feature. The error code read “Invalid application”, and there was just nothing to do the errorcode came up every time not matter what.. it took a bit of debugging but the solution […]
Just spend a few hours on a simple batch job issue 🙁 I had a job.cmd file I executed, but the containing commands was not executed as Windows could not locate the filename.exe files 😐 The problem was rather simple, the current directory (%cd%) while executing the job.cmd file was “c:windowssystem32”.. doh 🙁 Anyhow, found […]
Heard about Solid State Disks? No!?, well then you’d better start googling.. Basically a solid state disk is a ram ‘replacement’ for the HDD, the idea is less power consumption and maybe improved performance. The problem is that HDD’s are cheap SSD is not (yet), however some clever ‘geeks’ in Japan has come up with […]