Thursday, June 25th, 2009
My current daytime setup is for various reasons a Windows XP installation with Ubuntu Jaunty running inside VirtualBox. I use Microsoft Windows for Outlook, SQL Navigator and some web browsing while using the Linux installation for development. This morning I started Firefox in Windows XP, changed focus to VirtualBox or ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
I usually pride myself with not falling for "special offers" but when I found this €450 computer and monitor package I could not resist. The new hardware is an HP Compaq dx2450 Microtower PC and an HP L2208w 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor. It's not high-end stuff, but I think it ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I wanted to set a couple of Windows environment variables from Ant. The environment key-value pairs are stored on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment key in the registry. As a starting point I used the registry editor to export all keys. I called the file environment.reg.template and modified it to look ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
After my struggle to install Flash I finally managed to run F-Secure Health Check on the only computer running Windows in the house, my gaming computer with with 512 megabytes of RAM and only 40 gigabytes hard disk drive. It is almost ancient by today's standards and I had old ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Yesterday I wanted to run the excellent F-Secure Health Check web application on my gaming computer. The health check only runs in Internet Explorer, but I don't use IE if I can avoid it and apparently I had no Flash Player working with Internet Explorer 7. When I tried ...
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