When migrating, it’s so easy to lose old stuff; be it moving houses, buying a new computer (or reinstalling the old) or upgrading the mailsystem to something new. Sometimes this might be the purpose, getting rid of old junk and starting fresh on the new location. I must admit that I am a collector; my [...]
For some time I have had windows task manager in a tools frame, i.e. with no menu nor visibility to the menu system. I could of course still control it via keyboard (shift tab and then key right of left for selecting the different sub-pages but it is still highly limiting) and not all the [...]
This activator works on a machine with no SLIC … http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5302510/Server_2008__Win_7__Vista__Activator The area seem fairly complex but the activator seem to support it all …
When getting to a new computer there are program that I simply must install or it would restrict the way I work on computers. Total Commander – With the old roots in the Norton Commander structure and Directory Opus for the Amiga the two window file manager tradition is where I was born and bred. [...]
The face recognition part of Picasa 3.5 made me uninstall the Swedish speaking 3.1 I had and go for the English speaking 3.5 (as it seemingly takes forever to get 3.5 translated). Anyway – it worked for some days on my 4 core CPU computer and it did a fairly good job even if I [...]
Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB stick is really handy. That enabled me to remove a trojan from my laptop that I couldn’t remove from Windows itself. There was one drawback; GRUB got stuck on my MBR (Master Boot Record) pointing to the USB stick. So without the stick the machine couldn’t be booted. Forgetting [...]
It seems I will never be an Ubuntu friend. It has AGAIN crapped on me twice! * My daughters PC is based on an ASUS motherboard, but it seems that the NIC (Network Interface Card) doesn’t work. There are a few more or less complex solutions to it, but it seems no plug and play [...]
OK, I fixed my oldest daughters PC broken. A bit of patching and fixing, wherafter the Windows XP installation was f*cked. Mea culpa – noone else to blame … I installed Ubuntu, mainly to recover her files but it seems she finds it acceptable so it might be that we skip the Windows installation altogether. [...]
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