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Windows 7 Ultimate backup failed

In: Software|Tools|Windows

27 Oct 2009

I was happy the first time I used the built in backup feature of Windows 7 RC1. It was a very easy tool that allowed me to backup my whole system (or just selected partitions) to another external disk or a network share. Today I tried to backup my current Windows 7 installation before updating [...]

Improving cygwin console (even more)

In: Java|Software|Tools|Windows

17 Sep 2009

As I stated out in one of my last posts I am using cygwin a long time now and I am using it more and more within the last months. This is mainly caused by switching to git as my new favorite source code management tool and using maven for every Java project I am [...]

Improving cygwin console

In: Software|Tools|Windows

9 Sep 2009

I am using cygwin for a long time now. It is one of the first tools I install on the Windows systems I am working on. The bad thing about cygwin is that it uses the Windows Command/Console to run the bash. Selecting text, copy and paste are really hard to do inside the Windows [...]

Backup third-party apps of your BlackBerry

In: Blackberry|Mobile|RIM|Security|Software|Tools

12 Jan 2009

Today I decided to make a complete backup of all the applications currently installed on my BlackBerry. I just bought Sid Meier’s Pirates! for BlackBerry from Concrete Software. This game is the greatest game I ever played on a mobile device so far and at the same the the best remake of an old classic [...]

Using Subversion

In: Eclipse|Fun|Java|Software|Tools

9 Dec 2008

I made my first “experiments” with Subversion about two years ago. After using Eclipse and CVS for a long time I expected a smooth upgrade with getting some new features (versioned directories, renaming, moving …) – I was disappointed. The biggest problem was that the CVS client included in Eclipse is really perfect – which [...]

I turned off caps lock

In: Tools|Windows

5 May 2008

because I can not remember when I really needed it the last time. Most of the time I press it accidentally and get into troubles. A quick web search brought up this page describing how to disable the Caps Lock on various systems and links to annoyances.org for more information. I chose the first method [...]

Again Troubles with vmware and CPU speed

In: Software|Tools|Windows

3 May 2008

I already posted a while ago that I had problems with the clock speed of my notebook and vmware guest systems. There are a lot of online resources about this problem. They state out that the power saving features of mobile processors could cause troubles in clock synchronization between host and guest systems. There are [...]

Truecrypt update available

In: Software|Tools

18 Mar 2008

Last week Truecrypt version 5.1 was released. I downloaded and installed it today. Everything works fine so far, my encrypted volumes still work The performance improvements they made are not recognizable for me because Truecrypt already worked smooth and fast with the 4.x versions for me.

Fixing memory leaks of Internet Explorer 6

In: Software|Tools|Web

10 Mar 2008

Lately we experienced a lot of performance problems in our AJAX applications. Since we went online a year ago we always had problems with users of Internet Explorer 6 but within the last three months they got more and more. We already knew that this had something to do with the huge memory amount the [...]

Internet Explorer VPC Images

In: Software|Tools|Web|Windows

10 Mar 2008

Microsoft now provides all of its Internet Explorer versions in separate downloadable virtual PC images. This is extremely useful for web developers because it allows them to test their applications for compatibility.


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