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Solving the “DLL failed to initialize” problem with Wine
Recently Wine was refusing to start any Windows program. When I dropped down to a (gnome-)terminal and tried to launch executables the “manual” way (by typing wine [executable name]), an error message similar to this was presented: fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION err:module:LdrInitializeThunk “RPCRT4.dll” failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”…” failed, status c0000005…
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The cost of freeware
I saw this link on the anti-virus rants blog: Catalyst Conversation Starter: The High Cost of “Freeware”. Given that I’ve just posted two tutorials on how to install and configure free (for home use), I wanted to share my experience: One of the products the paper specifically mentions is AVG. I’ve been recommending, installing an…
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Gone Fishing
See you soon.
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Posting high-quality YouTube videos
Via George Ou’s blog: How to embed high quality YouTube videos and more. The methods described there are a little cumbersome (except for installing the WordPress plugin – but I’m not using WordPress :-)), so I’ve simplified them a little. You can either paste the embed tag given by Youtube in the text-box below and…
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Installing Avast
Besides AVG, Avast! is the other free AV out there, so I’ve created a tutorial about installing it too. I don’t have as long experience as with AVG, so feedback is welcome and I’ll update this guide when I receive it. The premise is: you are installing this for a friend / relative / family…
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Installing AVG 8
The premise of this tutorial is that you wish to install AVG for home use (because the free license covers only that) at a friend, relative, parent, etc, and the person who you are installing it for is not a power user. In fact these two posts (Installing AVG and Installing Avast) are an extension…
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Influencing people – is it worth it?
I’ve recently read the book “Artful Persuasion” by Harry Mills (see the Amazon reviews). All in all, it was an interesting book to read, it contains many fun anecdotes and quotes which entertain the reader and illustrate the point. Many of the suggestions should be fairly obvious to us, cynical consumers who are bombarded daily…
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Pimping my blog
I’ve re-arranged my blog a little for it to be more usable (for both of my regular readers :-)). Here are some things I’ve done: Added my logo in the header Redirected the autodiscovery feeds through Feedburner. This should give a more accurate readership number (fortunately users don’t have to do anything for this to…
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Beauty is all around us…
you just have to look. For example, we live in an overcrowded, noisy city and still, I was able to find these flowers on my way home from work. I’ve always said that I don’t need a camera phone, but this time it came in handy (and even the psychedelic effect it added to the…
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Link list
Via the GSD blog (a very good blog BTW – I’m amazed how he finds energy and time to write those long posts time and time again): Opera 9.6 is approaching – the browser wars are heating up again, which can only be a good thing 🙂 OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 – for a long time…