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Love in the internet age
In these days you get more and more overwhelmed with commercials for online dating on German television, from “neu.de” to “parship.de” to “elitepartner.de”. And although I would never try and find a partner through such a service, three quarters of my own relationships developed – at least partially – via the Internet. But by what…
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Windows XP filesharing again …
Sometimes Windows can really drive you crazy … It hadn’t been too long since I had managed to make my shared files accessible to everyone on the network without entering a password, but now it was again broken, although I hadn’t changed any settings since then. Again, I was prompted for username and password when…
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I am reading (continued)
“I am reading (continued)” is a WordPress plugin to display which book you are currently reading and how far you have already come. It is actually a continuation of the plugin “I am reading”, which stopped working after 15th August 2009, because Amazon implemented a new kind of authentication on that day. Since the author “mifupa” doesn’t…
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Dual-Monitor-Probleme mit älteren NVIDIA-Karten
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 …
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Windows XP: Filesharing without password
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…
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Preserve PNG transparency with GD Lib
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…