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How many times haven’t i come back to my computer and found that it has rebooted on me. At least KDE (and Firefox, and my pro-pimped IE) has session saving, but whatever was on the Windows desktop prior to the reboot … is no longer.
While Windows needs to reboot once in a while, the least [...]

Today, we employed some wizard power tools to manage our machine park. Most notably, we learned how to connect two VMware ESX servers underneath one management umbrella and then how to throw virtual machines — even running ones! — from one server to another.
For a live migration to be possible, some rather obvious (and, while [...]

Usability Nestor Jakob Nielsen today posted a fatwā [0] regarding the order of OK and Cancel buttons in native applications and web apps. The short version is “Don’t sweat it, and stick to platform specs“.
The specs, of course, depend on the platform: The KDE and Windows usability guidelines say OK first, then Cancel, while the [...]

Ah. I have my account unlocked. Kudos to B for this. We did a funky two factor authentication to get the job done, which is to say that we used Messenger and a phone call, to ensure that i was i.

This is one of those days. Since i were on a course for a week, my Windows domain login expired. I managed to log in to my computer this morning but after lunch, my screen was locked and so was my account. So i try to give A and B, our friendly sysadmins, a [...]

I am now running KDE 4 natively on Microsoft Windows. And despite the warnings, it runs on Vista too.

I had not expected this day to come. Ever.

I was finally drawn to Google Apps for Domains, which basically is GMail, GCalendar and GDocs for your domain name. What finally got me interested was that “regular” GMail is filtered at her job.
I’m a great fan of integration. I think stuff should work well together or they don’t work at all. I [...]

On KDE Linux, i have File Size View to show me how much fat different branches of my directory tree are (i also have du -h –max-depth=somenumber but that’s another story). On Windows i have… nothing. That is, until a colleague of mine pointed me to TreeSize Free. Sure it ain’t as elegant, but hey, [...]

I just discovered something spooky when attempting to make a backup copy of my Documents folder on Vista (i.e. c:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents) using rsync on Cygwin. I got an error that rsync wouldn’t copy the folders My Music, My Pictures and My Videos.
This was a surprise, because i didn’t even know those directories were there. Maybe they [...]

I (finally) got this wonderful second monitor to my work machine. It’s a near-HD widescreen Dell thingy and it makes working with multiple windows so much nicer.
But of course, things ain’t better and they could be perfect. The thing is that Windows XP don’t scale. In this case, it don’t (or doesn’t) scale the stuff on [...]