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Monthly Archives March 2010

Hot hot hot

St Petersburg. Hotel room. Aircon blowing only hot air. I’m melting…

| Posted 31 March 2010 | Antti | Environment | Comments Off |

It works too well!

I have an integrated 3G modem in my new laptop, and it works just fine. In fact, it works too well – I can’t turn it off. Help! I’m in a train right now and the damn thing is re-connecting automatically all the time, which I’m sure does wonders for my battery life. There’s a [...]

| Posted 31 March 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments Off |

Installing SQL Server 2008 on 64-bit Windows 7

I bet you didn’t see this coming – a useful piece of information on my bloggamathingie! But here it is anyways, whether you want it or not: If you try to install SQL Server 2008 on a 64-bit Windows 7, you may get weird error messages about window handles not being created because they have [...]

| Posted 30 March 2010 | Antti | Programming | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Quality schmuality

What pisses me off to no end is when I spend extra money to buy something that’s supposed to be of high quality, and it turns out to be the same shit as a cheaper one would’ve been, or it has some idiotic problems that a cheaper alternative probably wouldn’t have had. My shiny new [...]

| Posted 29 March 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Product activation – gotta love it

That was fun. I just got a new laptop and am installing stuff on it. I’ve got a MAPS package, which contains 10 licenses of MS Office, of which I’m using 2 – my home computer and my old laptopt. I tried installing it on the new computer, but was told I was over the [...]

| Posted 28 March 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |