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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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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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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…