I have found one of such nice homepages eventhough latest udpated in year 2003, it has some very nice info regarding Windows 9x/ME.
My faves are How To Switch Off Your PC and Retrofitting DOS Mode to WinME!
And no, I don’t mean it sarcastic, I am totally serious! 🙂
Udo – The ICQ Team announced that the by many ICQ users loved Random Chat is back!
I have never used it in past ICQ clients before they once dropped it, but I anyway think it’s great that they listened to the many user requests and screams for its return and so re-implemented it into ICQ 5.
also seen a couple of nice people there (so I have made myself available for Random Chat to try it out).
Technorati Tags: ICQ, Random Chat
Sorry, for not updating the blog for a long while! we had lightening and it destroyd the internet upload channel box in the cellar, so I was offline for 5 days. Then I had boards to post in, and I have received 140 emails and around 10 ICQ offline messages.
Furthermore, since the new Technorati blog search is now added in my sidepannel of the blog, the categories are no longer needed, really.
here are my ordered free Ubuntu Linux CDs. I am thrilled that they really arrived! 🙂
They came from Belgium! Great service! 🙂
When I have logged in to Flickr today, they displayed this news!:
Flickr News
DEV CHANGE LOG22 Jun ’05, 9.38pm CEST
Users of Opera 8.01 now should be able to partake of all the DHTML interface niceties that were previously only available to Safari, IE, and Mozilla-based browser users. Oh, joy!
So, now Flickr officially supports Opera! Groovy! 😀
Well, I have been using Flickr in past too, never had problems, so wonder how it improved for Opera users, but at least it works now officially. 🙂 thanks to the Flickr Team to offically support Opera now 🙂
And again one of my friends told me about an amazing silly site. And the sad thing is: Those people are totally serious!
STOP ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
No, it’s not only the homepage bad as it seems, no it’s also the idea. Protect yourself from mind controls from aliens by wearing foil helmes
And the shocking thing! They even offer it for kids!
How silly! And that really scares me, I mean, ok, if you want to be a nerd and wear such helmes, ok but don’t drag your kids into it! That is my opinion. well, the world is silly and we life among them. heheh.
Technorati Tags: Alien Abduction, aliens
Bad news! The GMail Invite Spooler is unfortunately down 🙁
From their homepage:
I have gotten the word from Gmail’s Product Manager that my service is no longer tolerable. At midnight PDT June 7th, 2005, this service was disabled. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all who contributed to this service. Your generosity helped out a vast number of people and for that you should be proud.
The gmail spooler email account is now deactivated and any mail sent to it will bounce. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop me a line: email@isnoop.net
Luckily there are kind people like me! 😀 So you can still get a free GMail Invitation from me! 🙂
Technorati Tags: Gmail Invitation Spooler, GMail invitation
UPDATE: There is a new version out which fixes the unicode problem. info and download link here
Yet it doesn’t work for 2001-2003 for me yet 🙁
but he is working on that now
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As many of you sure know, ICQ 5 does unfortunately not have a Message History search function 🙁
Now a clever user created his own history search prg!
However yet it doesn’t seem to work right in all cases. It skips to convert histories with UNICode and then the whole prg terminates so you cannot convert the others after:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.F:Dokumente und EinstellungenNafcom>cd F:Dokumente und EinstellungenNafcomD
esktoplinkfoldericq5webhist 1.0F:Dokumente und EinstellungenNafcomDesktoplinkfoldericq5webhist 1.0>icq5web
hist.exe
##################################
# ICQ5 Web History Generator
# Developer: David Lee
# ICQ #4005491
# Ver: 1.0
##################################Reading data from 332545368-0105.xml
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 7, column 7, byte 119 at lib/XML/Parser.
pm line 187F:Dokumente und EinstellungenNafcomDesktoplinkfoldericq5webhist 1.0>
332545368 is from a spammer, not a contact from me.
His prg seems to have problem with UNICode:
0x0014001f
0
Yes
UNICode message
Anyway, it’s cool! It’s the first right step into a history search which was long missed in ICQ5!
Manual and download link can be found, here
Technorati Tags: ICQ, history search
This blog entry is written as a continue of my blog entry “Weird Computer Errors“.
I had some spare money since months and I had no idea what to buy for it!
So I decided to buy toy hardware for my PC. What is Toy Hardware? (from now on called “TH”). TH is TH that you do not need really but you have it because it’s either:
1) Funny TH
2) Weird TH
3) Ridiclious TH (which I find a waste of money, so I do not have “RTH”)
4) TH which makes live easier.
So I have decided to go for:
a) A bluetooth USB stick (means it gives your PC bluetooth ability by plugging it into an USB port).
b) An external USB 2.0 case for 3.5″ IDE HDDs
c) A gameport/midiport (i.e. joystick port) to USB adapter
Why did I buy those?
a) I do not have an idea yet what to do with that one, but Christmas is soon 😉
And my “new motherboard” I have decided to go for, doesn’t have on-board bluetooth!
c) Because the new motherboard’s on-board sound chip won’t have a midiport and I love my QJ PC-Optix SV-205 with analog-digital combi technology!
b) Because a friend and IT expert has external HDDs and he was praising them very often 🙂
There have been so many crazy and interesting experiences with those 3 hardware bits, that I feel the need to write it here on my blog!
The joystick: It really works better now! Why you ask? Because it has switch-off-able throttle, and if I configured it as a flight stick (what it indeed it is!) and the throttle is switched off, the joystick won’t work (error message: “Device Not Connected!”), which makes you mad if you play a game and by accident move the throttle too much!
Thanks to the Rockfire USB-Nest Joystick Converter, the joystick now works as a flight stick (USB-Nest has 4 joystick modes you can select from, I have selected 1-2 axes, 4 buttons (Mode 3)) and I can switch off the throttle if I want, and the joystick will still operate as it should! 😎
The HDD: It can be set as boot device in BIOS settings of MSI 🙂 I have a HDD case with SILicon controller:
in my eyes: good bios support, when I once had a support question, I have got a nice answer, they are not as expensive as Promise controllers but not neccessarily worse than SIL. And Linux has a very good support of SIL controllers!
I have also mentioned earlier that I am using Mandriva Linux (Limited Edition 2005).
And so I was thrilled wether my new hardware would be supported eventhough it’s not listed in the Mandriva Hardware Database!
The USB-Nest Joystick Converter was detected but not supported by HardDrake
The USB 2.0 hdd case was deteced properly and works 🙂
And to my suprise, when I have plugged in the FreeControl Bluetooth mini-USB Adapter HardDrake told me: “Have to install gnome-bluetooth. YES/NO?”. Of course I said YES and there I went! 🙂 It installed it as “pegasus bluetooth”, well whatever works, right? 😀
There is a funny thing, though! You _must not_ boot up Mandriva Linux with the bluetooth adapter plugged in. If you do it though, one of the following things will happen:
1) Either it mis-detects it as USB printer and then Linux freezes (no error message)
2) Or it says on startup of a GUI “Server Not Found” and “No supported bluetooth device found”
So it only works correctly if you plug it in just when your GUI fully booted up! Then Linux will say “Bluetooth device found”
That’s it with my experiences so far 🙂
Technorati Tags: hardware detection, bluetooth, USB, Mandriva
There is a message going around in German ICQ 5 clients about “icq is no longer for free”. Of course this is not true and spam! I found a rather good translation of this post and a statement about this from an ICQ user,
here which I would like to quote:
“i get this nice message:
It’s a pity that the ICQ-administration had to start a second chain letter, because the first one wasn’t taken seriously. Send this message to every person in your Contactlist back to me . We feel impelled to this, because there are very much inactive accounts, causing long loadingtimes. As a reward you will get a golden icq-flower. Proofs can be found under icq.com
In my opnion thats just another stupid chain letter with orgin: some stupid teens that wanna laugh up there sleeves, seeing there “friends” spread this crap.
I’m of that opion because:
1. I havn’t found any proof on icq.com
2. This letter (and the letter from da_platinum_deluxe too) has an surpassing error ratio (meaning the german “Grammatik” & “Zeichensetzung” )
3. Even if this would be true, i would just create a new account, so theres no problem for me
4. And even if these inactive accounts were the origin of the long loading time, why it would help to send some messages around???Hope I could help, hf^^”
There is an interesting site about which always gets my laughing tears! 🙂
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