Category Archives: Blog

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 →

There is one really good thing about Windows Vista: It poses the perfect excuse to deny installing 10-year old 16bit applications. Frankly, I'm shocked about the high percentage of legacy applications still in use. About every week we're having trouble … Continue reading →

A new version of TrueCrypt, the open source on-the-fly disk encryption software, has been released. This update bumps the version number up to 5. Among a Linux GUI and several other nice things a real biggy is a new feature … Continue reading →

Ever since my iPod earphones died on me (must’ve been sometime in 2007) I was in search of decent earphones. Ordering another pair of shitty Apple run-of-the-mill earphones was out of question, the sound was just terrible and the hardware … Continue reading →

A while ago I was pondering about blogging clients (again?!). I vowed to intensively test Qumana and report back (or at least I intended to 😉 ). Now, I’ve been testing Qumana for a while now. In fact, all posts … Continue reading →