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Vista + Firefox + Videos 2007-01-27 18:01:19 Today, I browsed through my website to check how everything is looking in Vista
. Everything was looking just fine, except the videos. Firefox
told me that “mplayer2″ was missing and only showed a box saying missing Add-On. I googled around and found the solution:
Download npwmsdrm.dll
Download npdsplay.dll
Copy them into the Firefox Plugin directory. (In my case: “C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxplugins”)
Restart Firefox and you are done.
Here comes Vista! 2007-01-27 02:44:24 Microsoft Windows Vista
is finally out! As a student with MSDNAA subscription, I can get the “Business” version of Windows Vista for free. So yesterday, I downloaded everything and installed in on my computer to give it a try. I read on Wikipedia something about an 20 minute installation, so I was quite disappointed for needing the whole day to do a clean setup. Unlike the retail version, I could only get the 5 CD version. They tried to make every CD image smaller than 640 MB, so the 5th CD ended up to be only 8 MB big. Seriously, who uses blank CDs with less than 650 MB capacity anymore?
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RAM error, what next? 2007-01-23 21:38:09 As some of you might know, I use a pair of 512MB Twinmos Twister Pro Dual Channel RAM. They’re not only the fastest DDR1 modules around, but they permit overclocking without voiding the warranty. Of course, they weren’t cheap when I bought them almost 2 years ago. Around last week, my computer started crashing and I ran memtest86. It showed me several error
s during test 5. I couldn’t believe it, because I didn’t even overcloak those modules. Anyway, I wrote to Twinmos, asking about the “lifetime warranty”. And what response did I get? “We don’t give out warranty on these modules anymore”. WTF? These modules are not even 2 years old! It seems like the Twinmos lifetime warranty is limited by them to the time they are still producing the product. But actually, for those who bought the RAM later than me, they might not even had 1 year of warranty. What a rip-off!
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international green week 2007-01-23 01:33:10 Last Saturday, my girlfriend and me went to the “International Green Week” in Berlin. It’s a exhibition from the food industry. Everything you can find there has something to do with our everday food. The price for a day ticket is € 6,00 for students.
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Moving to Wordpress 2007-01-17 13:35:59 I have used my own CMS for about a year now, but last week, when I installed Wordpress
for my girlfriends homepage, I was kind of fascinated by its features. Although Wordpress has no multilangual support out-of-the-box, but there was a plugin which made it possible. It’s called Polygot and allows the usage of multiple languages. Because Wordpress is W3C conform by default, I decided to do the same with my design.
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blessing in disguise 2006-12-30 00:00:35 Yesterday, Liu Chengyang (we call him Liu) and his girlfriend Pan Junli (called “Trampeltier”), Qian Le (someone else with similiar name like me), my girlfriend and me wanted to go to Snow Funpark, an indoor skiing hall in north Germany. Because they have been overbooked the last two days, they recommended that we should arrive before 9 am, so we could still get tickets. Anyway, to get there on time, we had to get up early and meet 6:30 am. 2 minutes before 6:30, Liu called me and told me he had an accident. Quite shocked I asked him what happend and he told me that he broke one of the wheels of his car by driving into the curb. But luckily we were able to get the wheel changed at A.T.U. and we could continue our journey 2 hours later. The trip was around 130 miles, so we had a brake at “Walsdorf Ost”. After we all went to the bathroom and sat back in the car, it wouldn’t start, so we called the “ADAC” (a car club in Germany) to ask for help. A Read more:blessing
merry christmas 2006-12-25 00:00:37 Well, it’s christmas time. I guess everyone is having fun with their families, so enjoy your holidays! My belly is full and it is time for me to enjoy myself with a round of Natural-Selection.
time for winter sports 2006-12-11 00:00:45 It’s getting cold again. All the years before, I’d stay at home in front of my heater and hope for the winter
to end. But after my Shanghai trip, I changed. Winter is great, why? Because of winter sports. I had so much fun with the indoor skiing hall in Shanghai and Beijing that I just bought myself a complete set for snowboarding. First, I got snowboarding clothes from “Tchibo”. It is pretty cheap compared with professional clothing, but still very nice. I paid ~ € 130 for jacket, pants and gloves. Then I looked for an used board with bindings. On eBay, I found one from Salomon called “Substance” with “SP3″ Bindings also from Salomon. It matched my clothing pretty good and had the correct length (151 cm), so I bought it for € 150. I hoped to get it cheaper, but some jerk kept trying to outbid me from € 120 until € 150, when he finally gave up. So now only the boots where missing. I walked into a ski and snowboard store and tri
christmas is coming 2006-12-01 00:00:33 It’s december again and Christmas is coming. Well, I should be very festive and motivated in the university. But first, I need to be awake. Like every day morning, I get woken up way too early and it is not very astonishing that I am very tired after I got to the university. How to help myself out in this problematic situation? How to survive another day of endless lecuring? How to become motivated? How to become festive for Christmas? Is there even a solution for this?
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XPS and Firefox 2011-11-29 18:00:00 XPS is Microsoft’s version of Adobe’s PDF. Its major advantage is that it is preinstalled on Vista and XP SP3. You can easy print everything as an XPS for later viewing. But Firefox
users might encounter a weird bug when they try to open a XPS file. When a XPS is opened, Firefox starts and [...]
Happy Holidays! 2011-11-29 18:00:00 Sending Ecards was pretty boring until I found JibJab. JibJab allows you to create little animations with your and your friends heads in it. It’s really fun, see for yourself: Read more:Happy
, Happy Holidays
, Holidays
Moving again 2010-11-29 18:00:00 After staying with Keyweb VRS Premium for 3 month, I learned that virtual servers aren’t a real solution for hosting. I ended up way too many times in the black zone, killing my website. So it’s time to move again. Read more:Moving
The Vista Battle 2009-11-29 18:00:00 I have been using Microsoft programs for a long time now and I have seen a lot of BSDs (Blue Screen of Death), but they usually occur when some application or hardware crashes or when you changed something in your system. 2 days ago, I experienced a somewhat unexpected BSD. Read more:Battle
, Vista
hosting toy - Keyweb VRS Start 2009-11-29 18:00:00 I used to share a root server with some friends of mine. This allowed us to use a high performance server at a relatively low cost. I use to pay a share of € 40 a month, which is quite a lot. So we decided to move to several small virtualized servers. With VDSL 50, [...] Read more:Start
PuTTY and WinSCP 2009-11-29 18:00:00 PuTTY is great, but it’s even better with WinSCP. You can let WinSCP manage all sessions, press Ctrl+P and PuTTY will pop up, with your session password saved and passed to it. But there are some configuration issues coming from this kind of setup.
Artido coupon from McDonalds 2006-11-29 18:00:00 Every year, we have a raffle in Germany from McDonalds
called Monopoly. You can win several things there, but most coupons are pretty useless, just like the one from Artido. The coupon lets you buy something and get € 20 off the price, but everything there costs at least € 33.90. Wait, execpt for the [...]
Urania.de goes online! 2001-11-29 18:00:00 I’ve been working on the new Urania website together with Jonas for quite some time now. Today it launched! Check it out: www.urania.de! We wrote the site completely in Django, a really cool Python framework for making websites quick and easy. Well it wasn’t really easy, we did encounter a lot of Problems. But [...] Read more:online
Useful Taskbar Grouping 2001-11-29 18:00:00 I always say that you can easy distinguish a computer amateur from an expert by looking at his taskbar. If it has only one row, he’s an amateur. An expert knows the advantage of multi tasking and needs a lot of space in the task bar to navigate through the programs. Read more:Useful
Amsterdam by car 2001-11-29 18:00:00 Last weekend, I went to Amsterdam
with my girlfriend. While looking for a hotel to stay at, it struck me that almost no hotels offer parking space. Weird, I thought and googled for public parking spaces and their costs. € 50 a day! That’s more than I pay for the hotel! A closer look on [...]
Windows Photo Gallery 2003-11-29 18:00:00 Windows PhotoGallery
is the default program for viewing images on Vista. It’s pretty simple and works great. But it only works from the Windows Explorer. What if you want to use it with other Tools like WinSCP to preview images from different, maybe linux servers? I started looking for an Executable file to open [...] Read more:Windows
Google Treasure Hunt 2008 Question 2 Solution 2006-11-29 18:00:00 Question 2 of the GoogleTreasure
Hunt is out and is fairly easy compared to the last question. They request you to sum up numbers of a specific line in files where the path or file name contain a specific pattern and have a specific file ending. I quickly wrote an PHP script to do [...] Read more:Question
, Solution
Strict HTML/XHTML and target=”_blank” 2008-11-29 18:00:00 To keep this short: THERE IS NO target=”_blank
”! It’s not valid “Strict HTML” or “Strict XHTML
”. There is a huge discussion on the web about this, and frankly I don’t care. I see reasons for opening new windows, so I want new windows and “Strict XHTML”. But how to do that? Easy, I coded a [...]
O2 Xda Diamond 2008-08-11 10:46:59 I got a new phone! Well… it really is more of a mobile computer than a phone. Lately, I find myself more and more addicted to the internet. I used to do so much stuff offline, now everything I do on my computer has to do with the internet. Right now I’m blogging, online, of [...]
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