You know those Apple ads where PC users turn out to be boring, slightly overweight, middle aged goofy looking suits, and the Apple guy is this so called hip youngster know-it-all? Now, I find those ads are kinda funny since I’m not that fond on Windows, which is basically what this is about, but sometimes [...]
Keeping things running smoothly on your Windows machine can be so much easier with the right set of tools. So how about a little list with those tools I have been collecting over the years to do all sorts of system maintenance related business for your convenience. With these tools finding a culprit messing up [...]
Yay for Belgium I’d say! From El Reg: Belgium has become the first country to mandate the use of the OpenDocument format (ODF) for office files, albeit tentatively. From September next year software in all Belgian government departments must be able to read ODF files. If the experiment is successful, ODF will become the standard [...]
When you read that even Macs can now expect to get infected with virii, and that 10 to 20 minutes of unprotected hexing on the internet is all it takes to get infected with all sorts of digital nasties, you know that you should take your personal computing security seriously. So I came across an [...]
February 27, 2006 – 22:54
I came across HTA (HTML Applications) a while ago and I have to say it’s kinda neat. In a way it’s not a big deal, but I didn’t know you could do this, and it really empowers you to write neat little apps fast by using JScript or VBScript and HTML, which is basic knowledge [...]
Sometimes I feel there should be a way to punish your OS. Smack it and make it feel pain so it knows it has just done a bad thing and shouldn’t ever do it again. Like when it constantly keeps nagging about the fact you still have to reboot your PC after installing a number [...]
February 13, 2005 – 23:09
It’s been an interesting week for IT security. Next to the, almost usual, patches Microsoft advises it’s users to install asap, a nasty domain name spoofing problem emerged in the open source browser Firefox. Even software like F-Secure that should be protecting your systemsfrom getting infected has been proven to have some serious issues of [...]
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