The situation is very simple. It does not happen regularly, but if you do come across it you might find this post useful. Now quit the chit-chat. As the title already implies, my external HDD (harddrive), a Western Digital mybook 500GB with data ended up with a corrupted partitiontable.
January 22, 2009
July 9, 2008
Debian as nxserver and OS X tiger with nxclient (freeNX)
No Machines NX solution has been around for a while. It is an equivalent of RDP (remote desktop protocol in the MS windows world) which supports resumable sessions. It opens the door the conventional X-protocol was not designed to operate on, which is efficient usage of bandwidth. (more…)
June 21, 2008
Take quick notes with Sidenote
The idea behind sidenote is very compelling. Although it integrates seamlessly into MacOS X, it doesn’t work properly when it is out of focus while having a third application covering the whole desktop (not full screen, maximize is the appropriate term). This is quite annoying because 90% of the time I work with programs that take up the whole screen. The list of apps I tested with are: firefox 3, thunderbird 2 and iTunes. (more…)