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Windows Aero: remove glass effect (diagonal lines)
Usually I always post my tricky little discoveries right away – not least to be able to look them up here again at any time, in case I forget them. But as for this subject, I thought some time ago that I could remember it anyway and that nobody else would be interested in it…
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Late New Year’s thoughts
Some time ago I saw on the Internet a few pictures from the book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. They traveled around the world and had a look at the dining tables of people in various countries. In each country they visited a family and photographed their entire week’s ration…
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Firefox & Windows Media Player: plugin not working
It has long bothered me that I couldn’t watch any embedded Windows Media streams in Firefox. Instead of a video I always just saw a gray box and the message: “Additional plugins are required (…)” There is a plugin alright, and I’ve installed it, too. But even after installation Firefox is still complaining that the…
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VLC player: “Building font cache” on every start
Some users of the (otherwise excellent) VLC media player experience a small problem that I’ve suffered from, too, until recently: At every start of the player, a pop-up window appears with the message “Building font cache” and the information that this process can take up to a minute. Normally, this message should only appear very…
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A happy new year …
… the best of luck and success, and, above all, health! All this and more we wish for ourselves and our fellow men (but mostly for ourselves) at the beginning of each year. As if we didn’t know better. 2011 will, too, be a year full of flops, bad luck and mishaps, of failure and disease,…