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Category Archives: Old crow whining

Economic downturn – where’d that come from?

In case you haven’t noticed, there was – and still is to an extent – an economic downtorn almost all around the world. Everybody was broke, nobody had any money, companies went bankrupt, people lost their homes. In general, it was not nice. But wait a minute! How is that actually possible. Isn’t the amount [...]

| Posted 21 June 2010 | Antti | Cynical conspiracy theories | Comments (0) |

All coffee places around here suck

All the coffee places and all the people in them suck. There are two coffee places near the place where I work. I was looking for a quiet corner today, just to write one document and do some translating, things like that. I don’t need much, a few cups of coffee, maybe a sandwich, a [...]

| Posted 18 June 2010 | Antti | | Comments (0) |

Why be clear when you can be confusing?

I’m a long time user of virtual machines, and I’ve grown to like Microsoft Virtual PC – it’s not the greatest, but it seems to just work and is quite easy so why not. Recently I had to look for support of USB devices, and after a bit of searching I was baffled – this [...]

| Posted 19 April 2010 | Antti | Programming | Comments Off |

Maybe there’s a replacement keyboard available?

A friend (thanks Jukka) suggested that maybe there are aftermarket keyboards available for the Thinkpad I have, where they Ctrl+Fn keys are swapped. A great idea! I did some googling, but so far haven’t found anything, so here’s a cry for help: if anyone knows of such thing existing, please, PLEASE let me know. If [...]

| Posted 08 April 2010 | Antti | | Comments Off |

Disappearing noise

My new laptop had a weird, whining noise. It only happened when fully charged, and the power source was plugged in, so it might have something to do with the power source or maybe some current controlling stuff inside the computer. I updated the BIOS and twiddled with all the power saving automagic settings, but [...]

| Posted 06 April 2010 | Antti | | Comments (1) |