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It’s like I’m in The Shining

So, as posativ pointed out the infamous Jugendmedienzensurstaatsvertrag is off the table (at least for now, although we all know proposals like this never die) – so let’s stick it to the man and keep the posts rolling. What’s new? … Continue reading

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Thanks for all the fish.

Thanks to the ingenuity of German politicians I am required to either tag every article of this page for age restrictions and child protection  (an impossible task) or would have to authenticate you to make sure you are indeed over … Continue reading

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Flashing the PC Weasel PCI

I recently purchased a PC Weasel PCI card off eBay. While I’m having trouble getting the thing to run as I wish in my fileserver it does indeed work fine on my bare-metal test computer. One thing that bugged me … Continue reading

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XBMC and Lirc – bleh

Since I got a Xbox 360 Universal Remote quite some time ago (actually: when a friend of mine decided that the Xbox 360 is a terrible console and not worth having – a sentiment I can only share) I was … Continue reading

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Run Wuala as a Windows service

One of the more common questions is how to run Wuala as a Windows service. There is a thread describing how to run Wuala as a scheduled task which may satisfy some people – but let’s face it: You probably … Continue reading

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NX Client and Sandboxie bitching?

So, I decided to re-install my laptop today. One thing that got me curious: The NX Client and Sandboxie started showing strange phenomenons. Sandboxie couldn’t quick-restore files from the sandbox (permission denied error) and the NX Client couldn’t find the … Continue reading

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Updates to Pangya USA

Normally I’d love to keep this blog on a somewhat technical level, the early days of keen happiness and witty jokes are over. This usually means no games, no warez, no porn, no music and no opinions on online games. … Continue reading

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Dxtory: Another great Direct X/OpenGL capture program

As you might be aware, I’m a big fan of programs like Fraps or Gamecam. Especially Fraps is a great tool, it works as a FPS benchmark, video capturing program and… no, that’s it. Gamecam has a similar set of … Continue reading

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Meeh

Yesterday I mucked about MonoDevelop, part of my reasoning being MonoDevelop presumably failing while compiling my perfect, non-errorous Vala code. Shame on me, though: The blame is entirely mine, respectively my inability to check first and whine later. So, what … Continue reading

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Heresy! Rhythmbox may actually…

Heresy! Rhythmbox may actually replace Amarok on my desktop – it just works, syncs my iPod nano 5g and is not as sluggish as the wolf.

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Firefox’s plugin crash protect…

Firefox’s plugin crash protection is awesome, see //bit.ly/9JMpv6 for details and //flashcrash.dempsky.org/ for great justice!

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Using ZFS through ZFS on FUSE …

Using ZFS through ZFS on FUSE 0.6.* for my LX home directory now. First impression: pretty nice , the former abysmal performance is history.

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Ordered a bunch of new NICs fo…

Ordered a bunch of new NICs for my systems, the mixture of Marvell and nvidia MCP is horrifying, especially when bonding adapters.

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Rebuilt Cairo, Fontconfig and …

Rebuilt Cairo, Fontconfig and Firefox for nicer subpixel hinting/smoothing with fonts. Really worth the effort :3

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Love it how sky2 and forcedeth…

Love it how sky2 and forcedeth both fail me… sky2 keeps oopsing and forcedeth won’t let me change the MTU. Time for a new Intel NIC. >_>;

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