After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP
After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP.
My advice: use a real browser.
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Opera
Firefox add-ons
This is just a collection of some Firefox and Greasemonkey add-ons I use. I've placed them here so I may easily easily reinstall, or so that my friends may try them out.
‘Assassin’s Creed 2′ DRM will hurt sales. Ubisoft will undoubtedly blame pirates.
The article says you can't even start the game without Internet, as you will be greeted by an error message. Making matters even worse, you are still kicked back to the main menu if the game loses connection to the "Ubisoft Master servers," which may not even be your fault.
Sprint international text charges on Samsung Moment
This is just a journal of my issues with Sprint charging international text charges when none of our contacts / texts / anything are outside of the USA.
This is a posted rough draft, that I will beautify later.
I have two lines, both sharing one plan. an exert of the bill (with personal information removed) is below.
HP total fail.
Last year my wife and I purchased two HP Pavilions (DV 9830-US). Fine laptops, aside from my ram being bad, her hard drive's death, and, one month out of warranty, the video chip on mine decided it had enough of the poor cooling and took a permanent break. This model of laptop was a portable furnace. This was a known issue, but this specific model wasn't in the class action lawsuit... lucky me. They refused to replace it. Rather than argue any more through a language barrier made of water and sand, I purchased a new model that boasted it ran cool. It did.
A fix needs to be published, in English.
Windows 7 users:
ACPI\ENE0100\3&33FD14CA&0 == IR receiver.
Open device manager, show hidden devices, select above, and select update driver, "browse my computer". Point to the folder created when extracting this archive. Do not run the EXEs contained within the archive.
Google Wave
I hate AJAX with a passion, mainly due to its overabundant use for benign tasks. That aside, this is amazing!
Cleanup Ubuntu.
A simple cleanup script by David Francos.
#!/bin/bash
Y="\033[1;33m"; R="\033[0;31m"; E="\033[0m"
function cleanapt(){ apt-get clean; }
function emptytrash(){ rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /home/*/.Trash* && rm -rf /root/.Trash*; }
function removeconffiles(){ dpkg -P `dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}'`; }
function removeoldkernels(){ apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '{print $2}'|grep -E $LINUXPKG |grep -vE $METALINUXPKG|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d. -f1,2`-`uname -r |cut -d\- -f3,4`|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d\- -f1,2`); }
if [ $UID != '0' ]; then
echo -e $R"Error: must be root, cleaning user's trash"$E
rm -rf $HOME/.Trash* $HOME/.local/share/Trash/*/**
exit 1
else
echo -ne $Y"Cleaning apt cache ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old config files ..."$E && removeconffiles 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Emptying trashes ..."$E && emptytrash 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old kernels ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
fi
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