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Ginchen! Ooh! Yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
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…
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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…
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Extremely choppy playback in Flash player
It is truly amazing how a computer can still surprize you and make you shake your head in wonderment, even after twenty years of computer experience. Since weeks I’ve had the problem that Flash movies were stuttering on my computer so much that I couldn’t even watch ordinary YouTube videos anymore. And I don’t mean…
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Strange error message in Poedit
I’m currently working on a PHP project that needs to offer possibilities of internationalization, i.e. the application should be translatable into any language with minimal effort. Since I had already come to know the mechanics of gettext from WordPress and was highly enthralled by its simpleness and effectivity, I decided to use this system for…