A few days ago we wanted to have a try in the Hellfire Ramparts – just the two of us, as usual – but it seems that since the last server patch all dungeons are tuned a little too hard. So we weren’t even able to kill the first three mobs, because the damage was simply too [...]

And again, three weeks have passed since we went on our last adventures. Somehow we always lacked either time or desire. But when we finally wanted to get started again a few days ago, the server put a spoke in our wheel: We had only managed to finish one quest – [Natural Armor] – when a short [...]

Today there will be – just for once – a blog entry of even lower relevance to the rest of the world as usual. I regularly study the search terms, through which people get here on my site, with great amusement. From “which devil fruits would you like to have” to “how do you turn off the midi [...]

Whenever NVIDIA releases a new ForceWare, I’m foolish enough to install it and hope that the bugs, that cause me to make driver rollbacks again and again, might eventually have been fixed. But instead, it seems to get worse and worse with every version …

Each time I reinstall Windows (which thanks to good care only happens every few years in my case), I have to struggle with setting up the stupid Windows file sharing afterwards. The problem is that Windows will allow only logged-in users to access shared files. So when anyone tries to access them, he will always be [...]

Lately I had to write a PHP function that generates differently sized thumbnails from an image with GD Lib. Thereby I had lots of trouble with semi-transparent PNG graphics. Although I found many tips on the internet that pointed me in the right direction, I couldn’t find a really complete and neat solution. Many people [...]