Monthly Archives: October 2007

My company has several users who were (un)lucky enough to end up with Office 2007 on their computers. Three of them were also using McAfee Security Center suite. All of them were unable to download mail from POP3 servers since … Continue reading →

Crazy ass HPTLBXFX.EXE problems are coming back to haunt me once again. You may or may not remember it from my last encounter with this crap back in January. It almost, kinda-sorta got resolved back then. Almost… Today it hit … Continue reading →

If you look at this image, and read the text below it, you will shit bricks: Btw, those of you who follow /dev/random have probably seen this image last weekend. You might have found it amusing, disturbing or anything in … Continue reading →

Let me paint you a story here. Imagine it’s 1944, D-Day +5 or +6 – you lost count by now. You were dropped somewhere in the middle of the France along with your paratrooper unit. Or at least that was … Continue reading →

You are happily working on your linux box when all of a sudden something freezes and becomes unresponsive. What do you do? Let’s talk about killing today! img © Rossy ℗∑ñℊ⊍ïñ found @ evilpenguins.tribe.net Everything really depends on situation. If … Continue reading →

I present to you what I call the GTFO UI Design Philosophy. There are many books written on designing good user interfaces, appropriate methodologies, approaches and techniques. People talk about different UI paradigms, styles and etc. To me UI design … Continue reading →

Most users of linux based laptops will encounter this issue at one point or another. You bring your laptop into a rudimentary residential Windows based network composed of 3 or 4 machines and a router that acts as a gateway … Continue reading →

We all know that browsers are kinda like religion – everyone has one that they like, and thinks all the other ones are crap. Sometimes people convert, but most of us usually subscribe to the “one true browser” club of … Continue reading →

Apparently some adjuncts teaching CMPT-109 are telling students to create their web pages on Geocities. I’m sorry, but WTF? I didn’t even know that geocities even existed. Sure, they were a big contender back in the midst of .com boom, … Continue reading →