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Recently I had the joy of a brand new hard disk developing bad sectors, this caused all sorts of issues, and once I’d worked out that the disk was having issues (a failed backup due to read errors, which lead to a chkdsk, which lead to a hurried purchase of a new HDD) I immediately [...]

Amazon have announced the kindle available in 6″ with WiFi and WiFi+3G models.
Some of the key features of the Kindle 3 that may interest you is the higher contrast screen for that even more paper like visuals, even lighter and smaller than before, a new colour (graphite) which I personally find significantly more appealing. The [...]

If you get the following error on a 64 bit Windows 7 install the following may help you.
Solution:
(Version 1.0.400.5)
This is what I did to get this tool installed:
I ran the setup and again the box popped up saying “This installation requires a newer version of windows”. I did not click “OK”.
I typed %TEMP% in the [...]

The wonderful fun and games that is remote desktop can often cause headaches, not the least of which is how to send a CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence to the remote host that your connecting to. The magic key sequence is CTRL-ALT-END – this will enable you to send the remote host a control alt delete key sequence. [...]

The joys of starting nagios in hardy heron – after installing as per the ubuntu site – I was unable to access the Nagios webpage by accessing http://localhost/nagios2/ – it took a little while to work out what went wrong, the fix is really quite simple.
Ensure that you include the  the following line in your

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf [...]

Now with the common availability of wireless internet connection over 3G phone networks having a portable computer is now feasible for many people there seems to be a dearth of decent portable computers to suit my needs
Things like the eeePC from ASUS seem almost ideal but there are a few issues with it – slightly [...]

Clips: New WoW Ads Recruit Mr. T and Shatner
Some awesome little clips advertising world of warcraft – the Mr T clip is da bomb foo!

Embedding YouTube Videos as Valid XHTML 1.0, Bernie Zimmermann

If you’ve experienced the pain of a screwed up page (formatting) after embedding a youtube video – try the page here, very, very helpful! The above saved my site – it took forever to work out why the formatting went all fubar. The code supplied by [...]

Dear Developers (of any software),
Just a little note to request that you contemplate your error messages more carefully, specifically while it’s a good idea to validate data and assume its hostile, think about the message you want to send to your users.
To use an example that annoyed me today – examine the Pizza Hut online [...]

It seems that Apple Inc. have (finally) launched the DRM free tracks on the iTunes Music Store, which I am pretty sure is a good thing.
Now Apple don’t deserve all the credit here – EMI (and a big applause to them for the decision to go the route of portable music) deserve big kudo’s for [...]