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Most people nowadays have so much data that they need an external drive. I recently upgraded to a 6TB hybrid drive (Seagate STBD6000100) which was an upgrade from a couple older external drives I had and I’m really happy with the decision to upgrade. For an enclosure I highly recommend the Vantec NexStar HX which…

This was an interesting feature about the old and new character systems for written Chinese both on mainland China and in Hong Kong.

Yesterday something rare occurred. I was sitting in a cafe and next to me there was a woman working on her computer. I know its not entirely 100% appropriate, but, out of curiosity, I briefly glanced at her screen and noticed that she was reading some page that had to do with programming. I was…

I love Debian for its stability and would not change it for anything. However there are instances when I would like to run an updated version of something and there does not exist a backport for it. One such instance is the Transmission bittorent daemon. Since I’ve started using Transmission I really love it. The…

The default user home directory in Cygwin is /home/user however a much more logical home is the actual home that is the same as the Windows home: C:\Users\user The way to change the home directory users is simple: edit /etc/nssswitch.conf and change the following line: # db_home: /home/%U – to – db_home: /%H Make sure…

Many people have reported a problem with the spacebar toggle for the hand tool in Photoshop (and Elements) not working under Windows. Normally, when any other tool than the hand tool is selected, one can press and hold the spacebar down which temporarily toggles the hand tool on. This is so useful when you need…

There is an extremely annoying issue that cropped up as of the Thinkpad W520 (and similar-generation models based on forums) in which an important feature of the UltraNav Trackpoint buttons disappeared. The UltraNav actually has five buttons – a left and right button below the touchpad, and then left, middle, and right buttons above the…

I feel kind of sad at the events that have been occurring recently. The whole thing began when some people decided to publish cartoons mocking other people’s religion. While I think that freedom of expression is important – after all I have this blog here and like to write – I don’t think that its…

Lenovo’s decision to remove the Trackpoint buttons from the latest models of Thinkpad notebooks was widely and rather intensely disliked by people who have long used and loved Thinkpad notebooks. There was even a funny video overdub done of Hitler freaking out when he finds out that the Trackpoint buttons were removed. Most people were…

America’s a great country If you’re an annoying, retarded aggro shit And want to drill a hole in your muffler And abuse everyone around you If you want to operate outrageously loud Landscaping equipment which terrorizes And violently abuses delicate Precious and vulnerable living beings If you want to be a loudmouth Banal hypocritical fuck…