Thoughts on many things
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Changing drive letter
At times you might want to ensure that, no matter how many drives you have attached to you computer, when you attach a specific one, it’ll always show up with the same driveletter. You might wish to do this for backup-purposes, or for automization purposes, or for whatever other reasons you might have. …
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Uncovering Model-specific errors
Most models of computer have one or two errors that you classically begin to see within about a year of their release. Be it motherboard issues, harddrive failures or simply keyboard malfunction, they all have them. The problem is that for each new model, there’s a new standard error. Some are shared across a range…
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Branding Internet Explorer
Like me, you’ve probably been using the internet for a while, and may have noticed that sometimes Internet Explorer has a “provided by”-tag, looking something like this: Well, I wondered how they did this, and found out. This is how to brand your Internet Explorer, in three simple steps.: First, open the “run”-dialog box from…
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Safari for Windows – first impressions
I like trying out new pieces of software, and when Apple released Safari for Windows I had no choice but to try it out. First impression is that it is most definitely an Apple product, and bears great resemblance to e.g. iTunes. It is a sleek piece of software, and it seems to be sturdy…
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Firefox 2.0.0.13 crashes, unable to add extensions part two – the solution
My problems have, as I mentioned, been twofold; first there is the universal problem of not being able to add extensions, and second there is the problem of Firefox crashing on one of my machines. The error data for the crashes look like this: AppName: firefox.exe AppVer: 1.8.20080.31114 ModName: firefox.exe ModVer: 1.8.20080.31114 Offset:…
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Firefox 2.0.0.13 crashes, unable to add extensions part one – the problem
I’ve been using Firefox for a few years now, and love it dearly. After the update to version 2.0.0.13, I have experienced the following problems with it: On one machine, it crashes *constantly* I am unable to add extensions (this happens for *all* of my extensions, and I have tested all of them in…
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Firefox extensions
It’s time to actually post a technical blog-post to my blog, so here goes… My web-browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox, for a load of reasons, many of which I’ll go into later on. However, Firefox only gets me that far, and to get the whole nine yards, I use extensions. The reasons vary, but…
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What will I blog about?
Having decided to blog about technical issues, here’s a (not in any way comprehensive) list of the topics I’ll be covering: Computer security MediaWiki Design Setting up Customizing security and access Microsoft Windows XP Various tips, tricks and hacks Troubleshooting Software Many of the posts will be crossposted to my website, and some…
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Another explanation
I recently started using Twitter, and I actually quite like it. Here it is, explained:
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Blogs explained
CommonCraft have made this amazing video about what blogs are all about.
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At a glance: Process Explorer
Process Explorer Originally uploaded by razumny At a technical seminar, I was introduced to the magic of Process Explorer, a tool developed by SysInternals (now a Microsoft-owned company), which picks up where the taskmanager leaves off. Found here, it is contained within a 1.5 MB zip-file, and it runs without installation. At a glance, I…