Thursday, October 6, 2011 5:06:59 PM
registry, fix, windows
In case you have a problem setting the time synchronization settings in a 64-bit Windows, one possible problem might be that for reason yet unknown the cplfile handler is set to 32-bit executable and changing it to 64-bit in registry manually fixes the problem. Here's my story how I ended up finding that out...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:30:36 AM
fix, hardware, myopera, DIY
What to do if a brand new laptop comes with a broken power adapter? Or to be more precise, what to do if you are me?
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Friday, June 17, 2011 10:45:09 PM
hardware, fix
I did a hardware change to my server. Finally changed that older Advance power supply to a passively cooled Seasonic X-460 one, so that from now on there are no fans on by default, making it completely silent machine except for the hard disk drives making faint noise. But it didn't all work out just like that...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011 3:19:32 PM
LEDs, bike, DIY
The winters in Finland are dark. Therefore it is mandatory to have some lamp on your bike when it's dark outside. But what kind of lights would suit me?
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:11:49 PM
fail, android, games
The new update to Angry Birds on Android added new level pack but also something that caused the game to become unplayable for a significant number of customers. Sometimes measurements in order to try to increase revenue actually backfire, as happens in this case.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 5:14:42 PM
IRC, internet
IRC channels usually have a specific topic to guide the discussion to be had in the channel. Some people do not seem to understand that there might be restriction on what kind of discussion is allowed in a channel and why they would need to join another one to ask a random person to become their girlfriend. Of course the reason the channels have a set topic is very simple: when you join a channel that has topic that interests you, you only see discussion about the topics that interest you and thus you won't see all the useless stuff since you don't join the channels that have it. Well, if everyone adhered to the topic, that is. In practice it just doesn't seem to work.
This blog post shows some examples of IRC channels I regular in (both in OperaNET and elsewhere) and their topics, how these topics are understood and what actually is going on (strong stereotyping is done here).
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Saturday, October 16, 2010 3:26:26 PM
games, debugging, windbg, source
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Yesterday I noticed I could not launch Left 4 Dead 2. It would just crash right when starting up. The same applied to many other Source based games too: Half-Life 2, HL2:e1, HL2:e2, Portal, Left 4 Dead and Alien Swarm. Interestingly enough, some Source based games worked, though. There were no problems starting Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 or Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. The faulting module was shaderapidx9.dll, but there was not much more information about the cause of the crash.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:35:28 PM
phone, fix, DIY
Warranty or fix it myself? Apparently this addition is classified as consumable item, so the normal phone warranty doesn't apply to it. Heck, I'll just rip the whole thing open and see if I can do something about it! And that's what I did.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010 5:18:13 PM
gamocracy, hardware
As mentioned in
the previous blog post,
I won the gold prize in Gamocracy's All Out Summer Contest. It's great to win stuff and get something awesome for almost like free. But even in this case not everything went as smoothly as one would have thought. Let's just say that the tracking code problem described in the previous post was not the only problem so far related to my prize.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010 5:04:01 PM
gamocracy, opera, mini
I participated to the
All-out Summer Contest held by
Gamocracy and went super lucky to win one of the gold prices: Logitech G19 keyboard, Steel Series mousepad and as a bonus I got a Counter-Strike T-shirt bundled in the package.
The prize package arrived to local post office (not really a post office anymore) today. Normally when a package arrives, one gets notification of it by mail the next day. But since I already had the tracking code, I could go grab it as soon as it was registered in the office by just showing the code and my ID. This is where the trouble began.
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