A new version of Hover is available. Fading effects supported by domTT are now enabled.

Another addictive game.

A new version of Hover is available. It now comes with domTT v0.7.3 and does no longer stop word matching at a dash.

Due to the sudden death of my beloved motherboard and the following installation of a new one I was forced to activate my XP installation.

Now don’t get me wrong its an OEM version and it came with the machine. Obviosly I paid some amount of money for the licence, but if I had bought XP seperatly and paid “real money” for it I’d be - lets say - a little upset:

[ ] Remind me later

[ ] Activate using the internet

[ ] Activate using telephone support

Well ok, if we need to activate it, let’s activate it. Gladly I bought the flatrate, lets use this internet thing.

Of course not. It’s called VPN over WLAN. I could tell you how to establish it but please don’t go ahead and ask me, just abort. It’s easier that way. No, really.

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Ok, breathe, count to ten, lets try telephone support.

one

Please use your phone to enter the first group of 6 digits of your Product Identification Key

beep boop beep beep beep boop

Please enter the second group of 6 digits

boop boop beep beep boop beep

Please enter the third group of 6 digits

(I am beginning to see a pattern here and finally after 9 groups of 6 digits I am done)

Please wait. Your Key could not be verified. You are now going to be connected to an operator. Please hold.

(silent curse)

Hello Microsoft Support, please tell me the first group of 6 digits of your Product Information Key.

(Now this is somewhat different from what I have been doing like 30 seconds ago.)

Sure, thats 123456

Thank you, now the second group of 6 digits please.

(Again I am beginning to see a pattern, but no)

Thank you. Did you already activate this Installation?

Uhm, well, it came like that. It was already installed. I guess someone must have activated it?

Please click on “Generate new Product Identification Key” and enter your serial number into the apropriate fields.

Well, ok. That may take a while I need to crawl under the table.

(Now lets write down the serial number and enter it into the form)

Ok I am done.

Please press on “Generate new Product Identification Key”

Let me guess, you’d like to know all 9 groups of 6 digits?

Yes.

(Several silent curses and 54 digits later)

Your Activation Key will now be read to you automatically. Thank You for using Microsoft Products. Have a nice day.

(Waaaaay to late for that)

What follows is a computer generated voice reading your Activation Key which again is kind of a challange due to the speed it talks in and the fact that it is hard to understand.

And again an upgrade changed the UI. Each tab has its own close button, the one on the far right, closing the active tab is gone. If you like me liked the old behaviour better go to about:config and change browser.tabs.closeButtons to 3.

For more helpfull hints go to lifehacker.com

Update: It seems like there will be more options I’ll tweak, for example set network.dns.disableIPv6 to false, network.protocol-handler.external.mailto to true and network.protocol-handler.app.mailto to icedove

Some time ago I decided to give GnuCash a chance with regard to managing my finances.

It took some time reading manuals and howtos to understand the priciple behind it but after a short while I was able to manage all my money related concerns with it.

I wanted to take it to the next level and entered my stock purchaches. So far so good but Finance::Quote - a perl module written to access online stock information - did not want to work as documented. To cut a long story short I was using the wrong name for my stock and this is how I found the right one:

1. Search with the stock’s ISIN (I found it one the contract I had with my broker) on Yahoo Finance

2. Look for a link called something like “stock exchange price”

3. Use the value of a parameter called ’s’ from the url as symbol name in GnuCash

There are two kinds of Self Service Bakeries:

1. The one with the plastic gloves

2. The one with the tongs

Both of them require you to collect your pastries on some kind of tablet, balance them over to the cash register and then balance them further on to a packing station.

While the first one is somewhat bearable since it only feels like beeing a heart surgeon preparing for surgery the second one does make you feel stupid. It is like the tongs are designed to be just somewhat too narrow to be usefull for picking up biscuits.

WARNING: This is an addictive game

After adding this to my smb.conf

smb ports = 139

XP with SP2 could again locate my samba server via its alias.

A new version of Hover is available. The path to behaviour.js and domTT is now configurable (in case you already have them on your system).