Author Archives: Tsukasa

Today I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5 RC1. Yes, I know it is supposed to be a testversion but hey, I simply cannot resist that many new cool features. WordPress finally has support for galleries and YouTube goodness right … Continue reading →

Zur Abwechslung mal wieder ein Post mit Niveau 😀 .

With all these buyouts, account changings and whatnot I’m seriously starting to go nuts I guess. Wanted to login into my flickr account today and had to probe for the correct combination of OpenID, Yahoo id, Live! pass and Ene … Continue reading →

A while ago something terrible happened to me: My beloved old keyboard reached it’s critical mass and gave up. A catastrophe for me, I always considered that keyboard as "just right" for me. Sure, the insides were corroded after all … Continue reading →

Other people seem to have this nasty problem as well. Unlucky, nobody gives a damn.

My notebook initially shipped with a load of crap like McAfee Internet Security (the trial of course), I had to uninstall all that stuff before it became usable. Now the problem is that obviously nobody at McAfee had the idea … Continue reading →

Since we’ve got access to all classes and namespaces in the .net Framework in PowerShell, let’s have some fun. Normally you install Windows services through the sc command or the installutil tool from Microsoft. But what does the installutil, exactly? … Continue reading →

Now that I finally have some time on my hands to get a little into Microsoft PowerShell again I decided to work on small things to remember what I learned once (aeons ago 😉 ). And guess what, there was … Continue reading →

Products that "bottle" applications inside the operating system are more popular than ever. Let it start with products like HDGuard or Dr. Kaiser DRIVE and let it end with something along the lines of Citrix. For practical use these solutions … Continue reading →

Hach, über die (ja, inzwischen) Jahre ohne Windows habe ich doch ganz vergessen, wie ekelig doch das Defragmentieren auf Dauer ist… 

GTK deprecates things faster than building on-par alternatives. Got messaged a few days ago, it seems eggtray is really about to meet it’s (undeserved) end in favor for it’s bastard infant overlord GtkTrayIcon. Needless to say that GtkTrayIcon is not … Continue reading →

One of the most annoying things in Windows is that start menu entries don’t get sorted alphabetically by default. I mean, sure… there is a practical reason for this and I won’t deny that reordering the items can be useful … Continue reading →

I'm pretty sure BeOS fans remember the name Bernd Korz. He's the head behind now defunct Zeta (a BeOS distribution without proper license). After having shutdown Zeta development due to shady and improper licensing (was there some kind of agreement … Continue reading →