I’m fed up with Windows 8 on my Lenovo W530 and the troubles I am facing. To name a few: No support for the color calibration sensor by pantone, VMware vSphere only works with a few hacks (and doesn’t show consoles),… I have to admit, Microsoft did a few new good things with Windows 8, but all in […]
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
Suspect things going on
It’s not a secret that I tend to dislike apple for the way they raped BSD to get it useable for the masses, but what they do to me from the programmers point of view, is insane. Let’s start out with a simple MAMP installation (Mac, Apache, MySQL and PHP) and a plain system() call in php: system(“kill […]
Tracking down problems with Win8 and Linux
Since quite some time I’m running Windows 8 on my Laptop. During this time I did see and track down quite a few bluescreens caused by malware scanners, drivers and last but not least caused by my Linux install. I am pretty sure it was my Linux install as changing back to windows lead to the big bang. […]
PCs do need care!
It shouldn’t be something new for you that you should care for your computer. No matter if it’s a Desktop PC or a Laptop. If you don’t care, your machine might end up with a bunch of problems. On the other hand, are common users able to care for their machine? Here’s a list of the most common […]
Headcrash
That’s how things look like: A dead disk, after having a headcrash. Look at the carved ring. All the dirt inside is more or less swarf.
WP-BlackCheck 2.7.0 is ready for you
The new WP-BlackCheck Version is ready. That’s the changes so far: Implement redirection of spammers (i.e. send them to the fbi website) Implement comment hash checking for repeated spam Increase HTTP Timeout for Web-Requests to avoid some server problems Comment hashes might take a while to start living as the database needs to be populated.