Posted in How to on Feb 26th, 2010
A wireless internet / network connection in your home or office location is great. Especially when the access point stands right next to your notebook…. Sometimes you don’t want to sit next to the router but you require some more freedom, but moving away from the access point reduces the signal strength. But how does [...]
Posted in How to on Jan 31st, 2010
Currently I’m running only 1 hard disk in my pc. Now I decided to install a second drive and to set my disks up in a RAID 1 configuration to prevent data loss. Here’s how I did it.
Posted in How to on Jan 23rd, 2010
Together with my companion I own a Linux based webserver. It’s managed by a third party, Red Unix. Although it’s managed, it’s still a big problem when users use outdated scripts like Joomla!, Wordpress, Coppermine and PHPBB. Hackers use security holes for sending spam or DDOS attacks which will get the entire webserver on various [...]
Posted in How to on Jan 4th, 2010
In my search for the next best thing after RTS game Red Alert 2, I found Supreme Commander which is more or less the sequel of Total Annihilation. Supreme Commander, or SupCom is great for it’s zooming capabilities, it’s units, the graphics, the gameplay. It’s just great. But how to play it with my brother [...]
Posted in How to on Oct 12th, 2009
For some reason my subtitles started to appear twice in my Media Player Classic (MPC) screen. I obviously did something wrong but how to repair it? MPC has dozens of settings and then there are all the different codecs with their settings. Fortunately I found the solution.
Posted in How to on Oct 4th, 2009
I’m using twitter to regularly post updates, thoughts or whatever to the net. Social websites like LinkedIN, Facebook and Hyves use their on “twitter” service however. How to Twitter to these sites?
Posted in How to on Oct 3rd, 2009
In Direct Admin accounts can get suspended for various reasons. The account can be overused, the reseller can run out of resources or the account as been suspended by the reseller as it was hacked, the customer did not pay their bill or whatever. The default message that pops up on when you visit the [...]
Posted in How to on Jul 20th, 2009
Watching movies with Media Player Classic is great, but enabling the subtitles can be very frustrating! Here’s how to get subtitles working in MPC.
Posted in How to on Apr 25th, 2009
When installing Windows Vista on my new pc some months ago I made a big mistake. I split the 1TB hd in 2 500Gb partitions. After some months, my system partition (the C-drive where Vista is installed) got full while my second partition (for me called e-drive) wasn’t even half way.
Posted in How to on Apr 24th, 2009
For some reason my print jobs often get stuck in the queue in Microsoft Windows Vista and or XP. Cancelling or restarting the job often does not work then.
A found a post in a forum by a guy called Bill who created a batch file to force the cancellation of print jobs in the queue.