Category Archives: Rant

Just some ranting.

Being offline..

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Being offline for about a month taught me a couple of things: An ISP’s help desk does not know a thing Ranting at the help desk does work! There are  a lot of companies involved to give me and maintain my Internet (4 to be precise) Verminators on Discovery is a cool show Dirty Jobs also. I prefer Les more… Read more »

Lost and found part 2

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First of all sorry for my late post.  I will try to do better in the future :-) As stated in part 1 I am very good in losing things. So let me sum up what I lost last month Pocket knife – I always carry with me my pocket knife. I got it for my birthday when I was… Read more »

Linksys continued..

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Well apparently my wireless post is not finished.. The ralink drivers ran fine for a while but then the lag spikes started again. The connection drops for one second once in like two minutes. In World of Warcraft it is not that big of a problem. But in Call of Duty fast connection is what you need all the time…. Read more »

Games arriving… and not arriving

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It is announced! Wrath of the Lich King wil be in stores on November 13th. I am looking forward to this expansion pack. Finally I now have a date to look forward to. But first I will be on vacation of course. A game that still has no “release date” for me is Call of Duty… I have ordered the… Read more »

Linksys hardware yay! Lynksys software nay!

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Since I live on my own, I was trying to have less cables as possible in my house. Every room had a phone wired to it. All are now removed and replaced by two simple DECT phones. Being a nerd, I need Internet. With the computer upstairs and the modem in the hall closet I decided to go wireless. So… Read more »

“Terrorists”

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“Cyber-terrorists” as they call themselves… had defaced my precious blog. Bloody bastards. That should not have been that bad, just restore a backup, update your software you use on websites and you are done. But it turns out our backup drive had broken down probably because of the powersupply failure we had last week. Anyways, we are back in business….again…

Lost and found..

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Like all other people I have bad habits. Tons even.. :-) One of my worst bad habit is that I forget stuff. To be precise: I forget where I put stuff. One moment I have an item, and the other moment it is gone, completely gone never to be found. It happens to car keys, bike keys (see two posts… Read more »