Your holiday snaps sorted

After each holiday I am confronted with the problem of ordering and naming
my photos in an accessible way. When I download the photos from my camera, I
am left with file names like DSC_xxx.jpg – not exactly obvious names for
holiday snaps to pass on to my friends and family.
A simple way to be rename files in Windows Explorer is to select your
photos, press "F2" and give one photo a name like "bitchyhead". Now, Windows
Explorer will rename the group with the pattern "bitchyhead (X)", whereby X
is a number sequence.

How to create a CD with MP3 files on

Burning just data to a CD has nowadays become a walk in the park.

So if it is that dead easy - how do i do it then?

How to create an audio CD using MP3 files on your home computer

Question: How do I make an audio CD with audio files downloaded to my computer?

Answer: These days the most common format for music files on the web is MP3. So here's step by step instructions on how to create an audio CD from MP3 files.

vi (pronounce: "vee eye", not "six", not "vye") the most erotic text editor ever so you better dont get me started on that one.

Yes, vi is a religion. More than that, it's a cult religion. It started out as a UNIX editor and has now become a Ubiquitous editor. Unlike, say, Microsoft Word, it can also give the illusion of magic. Watching a vi guru doing some heavy editing on a file, as her fingers fly over the keys and textual transformations sweep across the screen, one could believe that one is in the presence of supernatural powers. "Awesome", the audience murmur to themselves. Maybe.

In real live i don't have time for short cuts. I rather want to enjoy every single moment in it's intense length.

But if it comes to computer I love short cuts. They make working so much more efficient. and I can quickly go back to the enjoyments of life where I don't want any shortcuts. Like me daily dosis of freshly roasted and brewed Coffee in the Red Roaster Coffee House.

Notes on backing up entire hard disks or partitions

It's often useful to make an image of either an entire hard disk or an entire partition. One reason is to duplicate an installed system onto another PC (probably over a network connection); another is to make a backup of your complete hard disk including every aspect of the installed operating systems, which you can restore if you have to replace your hard disk or if you screw things up. Typically it's useful to be able to transfer these images over the network to another machine, although you may want to save images onto a different partition or hard disk.

No time for Backup? But plenty of time for wailing especially when you urgently need your data. No need for that! Get yourself an extra (USB-)Harddrive. Here and now is not the place to bore you to death with cryptic command lines and longish scripts. I rather point out what you can do to safe your precious data.

The hotte$t pick this year!

Spam was once an entertaining marginal phenomenon. One bored commentator on virility enhancing pills was surprised at the undaunted business offers from Nigeria. While penis extensions seem to have become unfashionable, the C1ali$ and V|a9ra-pushers are still trundling like Spam dinosaurs through the net. They would have us believe we need these potent pills for the ubiquitous willing ladies allegedly living next door – a presumption which is extremely irreverent to my respectable 80-year old neighbour.

OpenSource - Today's Musketeer

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What is OpenSource?

It all started several years ago. People were getting sick of badly constructed software and didn't feel like being pushed by some marketing guy into releasing untested software anymore - a practice that, unbelievably, some software giants still adhere to today.

OpenSource allows everyone with an ambition to improve their software to read the actual program code and change it. That's how people like Richard Stallman went into programming, just for the sake of it. I don't want to go into this in too much depth here but based on their pioneering work, lots and lots of useful software has been developed from which we can all now benefit.

And the best thing about it: We don't have to buy a pig in a poke anymore, we can just donate a bit or money if we feel are pleased with the product.

This time I want to supply sweet little Kemptown with some useful links.
They can make your life easier, as life is hard enough, especially at
weekends
when you are out with a stunningly good looking person - and I don't mean
myself.