Losing your mind with the automatic mic volume control on skype that you can’t switch off? Amazingly the feature is there, just not on the interface. You’ll have to edit an XML file located at ~/Library/Application Support/Skype Open shared.xml with your text editor of choice, find the element create a new line and add 0 …
Read moreThose of you following me on twitter know that I’ve been playing a bit with FreeDOS. Searching around for a telnet/SSH service for it I came across an article on Slashdot regarding the 10 years of FreeDOS and was struck by the awful comments people made. The celebration of 10 years of development and fine …
Read moreThere’s a lot happening, and it’s happening fast. There are changes and the inevitable adaptation to these changes. All this has been setting me aside from a bunch of activities that I’m either suppose to be doing and others I wish I had the time to do them. Okay, so what have I been doing: …
Read more“The technique is called wardriving, and it allows hackers to detect vulnerabilities in a retailer’s wireless network in order to lift credit and debit card information.” as seen on cnet’s article. Seriously, there’s this new thing called “wikipedia”, try using it before leading your readers towards ignorance and FUD. on a less sad note: This …
Read moreokay, since I struggled with this for a bit (and because I’m a warm hearted individual that wants everyone to be happy) here’s the gist of it: you’ll want to download ext2fsx, make sure you *download the latest development version* (as of the date of this post: 1.4d4). Install, reboot, after you are done you …
Read moreA few years ago we had our personal web pages, with everything from pictures of our cat(s) to our love for red wine, to pet projects we insisted on sharing with the world. We wore bold enough to put that address on our resumés, sure that no one would ever type it in (who would …
Read moreI just answerd this question on linkedin, linkedin not being the perfect place to have a discussion over the issue I decided to post it here as well: Is IPTV going to take off in way as todays cable TV or Sat TV? what will be the most common way of TV reception in household, …
Read moreThis is actually a repost (and remake from a bit of knowledge learned from the comments on the original blog post and throughout the deployment of yet another corporate wiki) of something I wrote on Safira’s wiki (you can find the link on the side bar), it’s more of an experiment to post it here …
Read moreNot the first time I mention this… I’m now the proud owner of a Macbook Pro (as some of you might have followed in my twitter[1]), and although there isn’t a stellar difference from the old version of it the multi touch is…well…a nice touch. So now that the technology Apple sought by acquiring Fingerworks (or their …
Read moreToday started with the last finishing touches on KDE4′s sound theme. How very Portuguese of me finish this up at 2 days from the absolute deadline. All the sounds are done and accounted for, even those that will not be enabled of default on the system. The only thing left really is to update the …
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