A word of caution: taking apart your laptop will void your warranty. Do this operation at your own risk. If you are not comfortable doing this operation, I would recommend against it. Disassembling a laptop is harder than taking apart a desktop computer (mostly because of the confined space), so ...

Recently I was buying a notebook HDD, and after considering a Samsung SpinPoint model, I’ve looked around the net to see if there were any known issues with the model. So I stumbled upon this page and my blood ran cold. Quote:

One of the most common problems Samsung ...

While I certainly like to rant, one shouldn’t forget about the more sunny side of life (unless you want to go berserk). So here are some random positive things:

Some songs which I like:

I’ve known for the longest time that there are two ways of creating / describing colors: additive (RGB) and subtractive (CMYK). However I never really understood the equivalence between them, until recently, when I picked up a book which presented the general concepts of typography. This is very cool, so ...

Please take a minute an answer the poll “Which editor(s) or IDE(s) are you using for Perl development?“ (via perlbuzz and szabgab).

Picture taken from Knightrider’s photostream with permission.

Here are a couple of challenges I found on the interwebs:

• SSHliders – from ethicalhacker.net. This one is centered around *nix shell scripting and more advanced topics like pipes.
• Hugi Size Coding Compo #29 (from Hugi) – not much time left there, the deadline is the 28th of October. No flashy ...

Recently I had to parse trough a bunch of logs, scattered in subdirectories and different types of archives (tar, bz and gz). My first thought was of course Perl (since it is the language for parsing quasi-freeform text), however I didn’t have “streaming” implementation for the archive modules, which ...

A wireless security camera is quite an interesting piece of technical equipment, which – the conventional wisdom holds – can deter people from breaking the rules (whatever those might be) or help after the fact demonstrate “who done it”. Their real value is however questionable. For one, they can become a prime ...

Disclaimer: I received no compensation for this review. All the opinions are my own.

There are a couple of actions you can do with music you have on your computer:

• You can listen to an arbitrary song from your library
• You can jump in the song you are listening to ...

I admit: I didn’t jump on the “hip new phone with all kinds of bells and whistles” bandwagon yet. I’m very content with my small, sturdy Nokia. However one has to admit that there is a certain kind of wow effect when one looks at phones like the ...