Entries that aren’t really worth the bandwidth they take up…
Damn those [beep]ing kids in my neighbourhood! I just found out that one or more times some kids have taken the mail from our mailbox and just tore it up and threw it away…! 😥 We heard about it today because one of their parents found out, and recovered some of the mail, including the […]
[beep]ing kids! :-( Read More »
As a foreigner here in Norway I sometimes get irritated, but more often quite amused by the SNAFU‘s they make in the translations/subtitles. Some are simple measurement screw-ups, like replacing ‘100 pounds’ with ‘100 kilos’ (correct: ‘45 kilos‘). These are probably just because the guy/gal writing the subtitles isn’t exactly a math-whiz… Sometimes however, instead
Lost in translation… Read More »
Anyone who knows me in person knows I’m a T-shirt nut – It’s all I wear, year round (which seems to be kinda weird for someone who lives in a country where it can get easily get negative °F (aka below -18 °C) in the winter). Over the years I have built up quite a
Hairy Chest shirt Read More »
I was installing a new Dell Vostro 420 desktop at the office this morning.One of the first things I do in the BIOS is to enable POST messages, so I can see when there’s something wrong. That resulted in the following boot screen: Hmm, what is wrong with this picture…? Perhaps that the BIOS has
EVALUATION COPY, NOT FOR SALE… Read More »
Well, it took a little over 4 days, but Telenor (and the good people of Relacom) has finally fixed my ADSL/ISDN. It broke down on friday at 10:05 local time, and it took them until this morning to fix it. First of course they came with the usual ‘It’s your ISDN box. We’ll ship you
I’m back online! :-) Read More »
Actually, the title of this posting is a bit inaccurate… There is no vs. when it comes to operating systems. All there is is an and! Almost every day I run into people who are… narrow-minded, for the lack of a better word. Narrow-minded, because they approach the whole thing backwards. They first set their
Linux vs. Microsoft – Let’s get one thing clear! Read More »