Denilson Figueiredo de Sá

An then a Maxtor HD fails after 3 months of use

Sunday, 5. July 2009, 20:37:35

After 122 days and 7 hours of use, my Maxtor 500GB hard drive stopped working. I should have had a second hard disk as backup...

People, DON'T EVER TRUST ONLY ONE HARD DISK, please have multiple hard disks as backup, not only one!

Mute camera sound in Nokia 6120 classic

Monday, 4. May 2009, 02:04:26

mobile, nokia

In January of this year (2009), I bought a Nokia 6120 classic mobile phone. It runs Symbian OS 9.2 + S60 platform 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1. It is the cheapest phone among the S60 Nokia phones with 3G. In other words, it is a pretty good phone (although the interface sucks a lot).

In this post, I'm going to talk about how to mute that annoying camera sound.

Setting nVidia control panel to English language

Friday, 1. May 2009, 22:52:04

windows, wtf, nvidia

I'm Brazillian. I speak Portuguese. However, I often prefer to have programs in English because it is easier to communicate with the rest of the world, and because almost always the translations suck. Sometimes they suck so bad that we can't even understand what some options are supposed to be. What's more, many technical words should not be translated, else users won't know exactly what the developers meant.

Today, I managed to make NVIDIA Control Panel be displayed in English. This one is particularly troublesome because there is no option to change the language.

The solution is quite simple, but damn quick and dirty: just delete the DLLs that contain the localized strings. Yeah, that's it, delete them and be happy with your NVIDIA Control Panel in English. Please look at the following links for complete instructions:

Also note that those forum threads are from september/october 2006. Today is May 2009 and we still have the same issue. Let me quote what RejZoR said in one of those forum threads:

Why is there no language selection? Shouldn't be more than 30 lines of code to do that.

That's exactly what I keep asking to myself...

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Validade dos créditos do Oi Cartão

Thursday, 23. April 2009, 05:03:58

portugues, mobile, rio de janeiro

This is a Portuguese post. If you don't live in Brazil, probably this post is not useful for you.

Você sabia que a validade dos créditos no seu Oi Cartão (plano de celular pré-pago da Oi) depende do valor da recarga? Segue aqui a tabela completa:

Recarga de 1,00 até 4,99: validade de 3 dias
Recarga de 5,00 até 9,99: validade de 10 dias
Recarga de 10,00 até 14,99: validade de 30 dias
Recarga de 15,00 até 24,99: validade de 60 dias
Recarga de 25,00 até 59,99: validade de 90 dias

Não achei esta informação no site da Oi. A atendente virtual da Oi também não fala sobre isso. Só consegui descobrir depois de falar com uma atendente de carne e osso. Fato é que esta informação é importante demais para ficar escondida!

Observações: Não trabalho para a Oi, não sou filiado à Oi, sou apenas um cliente. A informação acima me foi passada hoje através do Oi Atende (discar *144 pelo celular Oi). Acredito que a informação acima seja válida para planos de Oi Cartão na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Não posso afirmar nada a respeito de outras localidades, e não sei até quando a informação acima será válida.

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Exporting Opera mail and importing into Apple Mail

Monday, 9. March 2009, 23:53:11

Apple, Mac OS X, opera

This quick post explains how I managed to make Opera export some e-mail messages to .mbs file, and then import it into Apple Mail.