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Friday the 2nd of July 2010 at 13:00h CET, Michiel Scholten and Ineke Post got married at Castle Assumburg and became mr and mrs Scholten. Lots of pictures were taken, lots of fun was had. Pictures will follow.

Thank you for your time; we will now continue the regular broadcast.

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Of course its manufacturer -- Samsung -- puts out bios updates (thankfully). It seems these could remedy these issues. However, instead of having some DOS-like application which can be run in FreeDOS or something, this is a Windows application which refuses to run under wine (bad idea anyway) and specifically checks whether it is being run on the specific laptop (so I can't extract things from it).

Problem is, Windows has been wiped clean from the machine and I have no intention to put the harddisk through a series of resizing tricks to install it again. I don't even have an install disk from the version it shipped with (a trend I quite hate, despite the laptop not even having an optical drive).

So, dear lazyweb, anyone having an idea how to flash the latest bios on it anyway? A BartPE livecd could be an idea, but I don't have WindowsXP handy...

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First, open a terminal and type the following command:

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow

You may also want to do the same with display-properties.desktop for setting the resolution of your screen and gconf-editor.desktop to change apps > metacity > general > button_layout to something like "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout".

Then logout, and you'll see an Appearance window pop up (and the other windows if you have copied those .desktop files too). Change it to how you prefer it, then close it and login as usual.

Now, to prevent those windows from appearing every time you get to the login screen, remove the .desktop files again:

sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop

And repeat for the other one or two, if you used them:

sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/display-properties.desktop
sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gconf-editor.desktop

Done!

[Based on this how-to]

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The side not facing the street, aka the garden side :)

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I plan on reviving this weblog. I will likely stop posting those blogmarks, which will stop the 'pollution' of the archive with lots of wrap-up links-this-week postings. This is still my platform of choice for writing larger pieces on Life, the Universe and Everything, so stay tuned.

Oh by the way, be sure to check out the 2D style refresh I did here ;)

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How To Easily Share Your Wireless Connection in Ubuntu 9.10

Epic win

Getting over the barriers to wiki adoption

What follows is usually an excuse for why the speaker feels that a wiki isn't a worthwhile tool for collaboration in his or her environment. I use the word "excuse" deliberately, because rarely does anyone articulate an actual business reason, such as a lack of need. When I ask deeper questions, I invariably find that the objection isn't to the wiki technology itself, but instead to the concept of collaborative authoring and a perceived loss of control over the content.

This column will change your life: Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do

Ever wondered why your friends seem so much more popular than you are? There's a reason for that.

Why is Everybody So Angry about Apple's iPad?

About sums it up. It will be great for quite a lot of people, and won't be "the thing" for users that want more control. I really only hope that it won't be the beginning of closing down *all* computers, as that will seriously hamper tinkerers. Tinkerers that are our future developers/hackers/programmers (think about how you started with IT).

Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All

I have a major pet peeve that I need to confess. I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know shit when it’s clearly obvious they do not. I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. This article is my call for all programmers to finally learn enough about statistics to at least know they don’t know shit. I have no idea why, but their confidence in their lacking knowledge is only surpassed by their lack of confidence in their personal appearance.

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