Posts by tag: howtos
No Reboot after Update
After having installed new update(s), Windows 7 would by default reboot your computer without even bothering to ask you if you are fine with losing your unsaved data or interrupting on-going calculations. To avoid this, feed the following into the registry (create a *.reg-file with this content and double-click it): This will grant you a [...]
Missing Notification Area Icons in Windows 7
Almost after every other system boot (Windows 7 on my Dell laptop), some notification area icons tend to disappear (while the corresponding processes/services are running issue-free). The “champions” are the volume and the power icons, although they are not the only ones affected. And I’m not talking about those “show icon and/or notification” modes which [...]
Whimsy HTC Desire
A couple of weeks ago, my smartphone HTC Desire HD running on Android 2.3.5 started to completely freak out: ·· USB tethering ceased to start automatically when the device got connected to a computer’s USB port. ·· When making or accepting calls, the speaker started to turn on at the very beginning of the conversation. [...]
Карточная игра «Ясс Отлынщик»
Ясс (нем. Jass) — весьма популярная у седого и младого населения Швейцарии карточная игра, чем-то смахивающая на «нашу» «тыщу». В ассортименте казино, правда, данная забава, как правило, не предлагается, но в частном порядке — в кругу друзей или семьи — очень даже. Принцип прост (хватаешь взятки до тех пор, пока не наберешь победное количество очков), [...]
Perfection Loop Knot
This is how I’m hanging my photos (and other stuff) on a picture rail using a fishing line (I didn’t make this video, just found it on YouTube): As you can see, the line shown in the video is yellow(ish) — but that’s just for demonstration reasons. It looks (hides) way better if it’s transparent. [...]
External USB Hard Drive under Linux
“640 kilobytes ought to be enough for anybody.” — unknown source (often misattributed to Bill Gates) Yesterday, I had to replace a one-terabyte external USB hard drive attached to my home file server with a larger one… Oh, I wasn’t going to ramble about these days’ lack of disk space, I just wanted to document [...]
Ох уж эти професюбители…
Перепост, боян, “было”, классика, “скокаможна”? Ну… да. Но можно ли более наглядно и красноречиво пояснить ситуацию? Ой, вряд ли. Итак… Вопрос начинающего фотографа на одном из форумов: “Недавно приобрел себе камеру Canon EOS 450D. За месяц успел отфоткать кучу фоток, снимал преимущественно знакомых, кошку и просто людей на улице, а теперь подумываю совместить приятное с [...]
Echoing Parentheses in Windows Batch Files
It’s not just about parentheses, really. It’s about almost anything that a script engine will ruthlessly interpret before executing a command: variable markers (percent signs), redirection symbols, parentheses, double quotes, ampersands… My most common… let’s say, case, is this: Put this in a BATch file, run it, and you’ll end up with a message saying [...]
MacBook Forgetting Wireless Network
Everything had worked just fine until my wireless router waved everyone goodbye and I had to replace it. The model of the new device was slightly different, though, but it did “understand” the settings loaded from backup configuration and — voilà, my mobile devices were back online within minutes. The only thing I adjusted in [...]
Attaching Guitar Strings to Machine Heads
Guitar strings do not always want to stay in machine heads. Sometimes they slip, sometimes they snap, and they never hold tuning. If you change your strings regularly, you probably don’t have this problem, but occasional players just don’t seem to be able to keep this little trick in mind. Watch how it should be [...]