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So today I started to get a strange error every time I opened a folder in Windows Explorer and Explorer would crash. Turns out there’s a problem with my DivX/XVid codec being used to display the image previews for avi files. First of all I tried removing my DivX web player and ffdshow to see […]

Since I overwrite my GRUB boot loader (long story) whilst installing windows xp I’ve had to reinstall some of my fav applications all over again.
Naturally I wanted to keep my thunderbird settings so I just copied my profile from my Ubuntu partition (~/.thunderbird/profiles/ I think) to my XP partition (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles). Big mistake.
Now […]

Having recently made deceased her previous two printers, both the free with computer, generic kind where the ink costs more than sense, my girlfriend came to me for a bit of advice on which printer she should buy.
Generally when someone asks me which printer they should buy, I ask them some questions:

What will you […]

Meant to write about this ages ago, I found this cool little laptop that ASUS plan to market, the ASUS Eee PC. I have no idea what the specs will be, I’d imagine they’d not be super but since it seems to be running a Linux distribution (again not sure exactly which one it is […]

If your administering a website and are thinking about changing/updating your web mail service, why not check out RoundCube Webmail. From checking out their webpage (I’ve not installed yet, but I shall install it on my laptop later) it looks pretty nifty. Much nicer then squirrel mail, Microsoft Exchange and since its installed on your […]