Category Archives: Blog

How to deactivate (revoke) Far Cry 2

Posted on 2008-11-01 by Tsukasa

Far Cry 2 comes with a nasty copy protection. Actually, it’s more like a strict DRM variant that needs to be activated online and can only be used X times when not properly deactivating it. You can manually revoke an … Continue reading →

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Daylight Savings Time

Posted on 2008-10-25 by Tsukasa

“It’s officially autumn/winter now”, Tsukasa said and sighed. There’s a new header reflecting the change of seasons, for those who are blind or just subscribed to the feed. Personally I think it’s a warm and calming picture (and I’m not … Continue reading →

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Wrapper Release

Posted on 2008-10-25 by Tsukasa

Gee. I didn’t get around to post this but the stable wrapper v. 0.0.1.0 has been released onto Wuala. Changes include the latest adjustments to the API (doesn’t include the changes to the thumbnail method, as this came later) and … Continue reading →

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Wrapper for Wuala’s API

Posted on 2008-10-19 by Tsukasa

As many Wuala users have probably noticed, there is an official group for the upcoming Wuala API available. Yes, the documentation for the alpha API is out and I’ve been busy implementing the specs into an easy-to-use .net assembly for … Continue reading →

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Take it easy

Posted on 2008-10-09 by Tsukasa
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Lecker Links (delicious links)

Posted on 2008-10-03 by Tsukasa

You may have noticed that I don’t post that much stuff anymore – I think that’s fine as long as the posts do hold some kind of standard. Often I have something interesting but don’t find the pretext to write … Continue reading →

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Moving old data to new disks

Posted on 2008-10-03 by Tsukasa

As I wrote earlier this week one of my disks kept dying on me. The solution – of course – is to replace the faulty device with a brand-new one and move the data to the new disk. While I … Continue reading →

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I don’t like mondays

Posted on 2008-09-29 by Tsukasa

Today the Samsung hard-disk that houses large portions of my system started dying on me. Good news: It’ll only take a few days to get a replacement, bad news: Until then I’ll have to continue working with an obviously broken … Continue reading →

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Omgwtfhp

Posted on 2008-09-27 by Tsukasa

I had the unfortunate pleasure (?) to setup a HP Compaq dx2450, one of those machines that come with 3 operating system discs but no media containing the drivers (I can’t help but to wonder why?). So if you want … Continue reading →

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Adobe AIR Beta for Linux

Posted on 2008-09-16 by Tsukasa

Wowzers, finally there’s a version of AIR available that has an (almost) equal set of features to it’s Windows and Mac counterparts. Before you can install this new version you do have to uninstall your old AIR applications (as they … Continue reading →

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Using T-Online’s Call & Surf Comfort Plus? Free Hotspots!

Posted on 2008-09-11 by Tsukasa

Wowzers, today I was waiting at the trainstation for my next ride home when I decided to power-on my notebook and scan for open wireless networks. T-Mobile obviously had one in range, I immediatly connected (hoping for free cookies, but … Continue reading →

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Restarting your WRT54GL per cron

Posted on 2008-09-10 by Tsukasa

Gee, sometimes I really want to push my router down a cliff: It runs out of memory and generally slow. Automatic reboot sounds like a good idea there… Just add this as a startup script to reboot the router at … Continue reading →

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Using vi as hex editor

Posted on 2008-09-09 by Tsukasa

There are many things vi can do, for instance invoke other commands to process files. That’s pretty cool. Since installing Okteta isn’t always an option, here’s a small snippet on how to work simple capabilities into vi: vi -b myfile … Continue reading →

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Autohiding Panels in KDE 4.2

Posted on 2008-09-06 by Tsukasa

It’s been possible for some time now to auto-hide panels. Now you don’t even need to mess in the configuration files anymore — thanks to a new panel settings menu. Absolutely awesome. I have to say that I can’t really … Continue reading →

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Making the NX Client portable

Posted on 2008-09-02 by Tsukasa

NX is great. I’m deeply in love with it. Sometimes it’s acting like a real jerk, though. The NX Web Companion is installing a lot of crap into the active user’s profile. The NX client writes stuff in the active … Continue reading →

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