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How to make a diff of two word files
Sunday, March 7th, 2010In case you need to compare two word files there is a neat functionality available in Word (Office 2007) – without installing new software.
Go to Review pane, compare, and there you are – load two files and you are good to go.
Sometimes solutions to a problem are simple
Windows 7, 64bit – hard drives gone after sleep mode
Sunday, February 14th, 2010If you are using Windows 7, 64 bit version, you might encounter a problem, that hard drives are “gone” after waking from sleep mode.
A fix is available on:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/977178/
Follow the link “View and request hotfix downloads”….
Your comp should have one feature less
Resource discovery
Saturday, February 13th, 2010I have just published a journal article on resource discovery in large distributed systems, which might be of interest to some of you.
Here is the link to the online copy of the article.
Windows 7 x64 and Regional settings
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Some of us are faced with the fact, that there exist life beyond 7-bit ASCII. (Getting emails with non-US characters in them).
When using Windows 7 64-bit version and Thunderbird, as the last is not Unicode, a person is forced to set “System Locale” to something, that should recognise our special characters.
So here is a [...]
Nokia N900 won’t charge from computer USB port
Friday, January 22nd, 2010If your N900 displays “insufficient power” when you want to charge it from the computer USB port – this is to be done:
when you connect the phone to the computer you have to select “mass storage mode”. After this – your phone should charge without any problem.
Windows 7 slow login – welcome stays there forever
Sunday, January 10th, 2010When you have a slow “login” on windows 7, here is a helpfull post I found on the net.
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Last week i spend hours trying to fix my malfunctioning windows 7, because it showed me the “welcome” bubble for 20 seconds everytime i logged in/rebooted. So today i got fed up with it, and reinstalled win7.
Closely [...]
2010!
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Good old days
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009“Back in the early days of the web there was this wonderful Perl library called CGI.pm , many people only learned Perl because of it.”
— Quote from: http://mojolicious.org/
And so true….
Adding new disk to Citrix Xen
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009It can happen, that you need to add new hard drive – HDD to your Citrix Xen machine. After installing the hardware, you start searching for appropriate action to be taken in XenCenter and you see, that there is no way to add newly attached HDD as a Local storage device.
You need to do [...]