Month: February 2005

Update: July, 20th

Here is another Gmail invitation 🙂

If you want more email me with your complete name and email address you want to have your invitation sent to.

Please click on the Opera banner as a little thank you! 🙂 Thanks in advance! 🙂

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Update: July, 8th.

Here is another Gmail invitation 🙂

If you want more email me with your complete name and email address you want to have your invitation sent to.

Please click on the Opera banner as a little thank you! 🙂 Thanks in advance! 🙂

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Okay, here we are, here is an GMail Invitation!

If you want more email me with your complete name and email address you want to have your invitation sent to.

Now let’s see how long it takes, till the link above is used up ;D

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Screenshot shows the first network error I have ever noticed on the ICQ homepage!

It’s incredible! Because usually, there would be a network failure (i.e. you lose conntection to ICQ and can’t login because of “invalid password”).
In contrast to MSN, ICQ never notified ICQ users about network failures.
After there has been complaints about that, seems ICQ thought twice! 🙂

Technorati Tags: icq, ICQ error

Hey, I finally added Technorati tags to all posts 😛

Have fun with browsing all the tags! 🙂

Technorati Tags: blog news, tags, technorati

Well, I have today signed up at Technorati

Let me quote a bit:

What does Technorati do?

Technorati’s mission is to be the authority on what people are talking about, and which bloggers are being most “listened to” and linked to, all in real time.

Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs.

I successfuly claimed my blog to be main, and now I am waiting to get verified.
Also, I have improved the colours of my blog majorily! Also I have added an own pic at t he top of the page, I hope you will like it!

Technorati Tags: blog news, colours, technorati

Please notice & read my blog’s entry The Pre-Disaster! before going on with reading this one!

So now I have moved, mother & co got the ex-monopoly phone company for phoning again.
Now I have my troubles, why? Oh because this all sucks so much.
The cable company: “Oh we forgot you!” and I was like “WHAAAAT? LISTEN, I APPLIED ON NOVEMBER, NOW IS NEAR FEBRUARY, AND YOU TELL ME -we fotgot you- AND THAT I HAVE TO WAIT 3 ADDITIONAL WEEKS?????????”
A consulting company was here last week’s Monday, checking everything in the cellar, only have to replace the cable TV’s junction box. I think: “Oh great, so all goes quick now!”.

Ahhh, I will tell you a secret; They sent out a fax to sign to my flat’s owner and NOTHING HAPPENED! “Oh right, yeah, I something wasn’t clear & I had a question…” I mean, if I had a son who was electican, I would ask him and not let wait other people, i.e. me till over 1 week has passed! I mean I have applied in November, now it’s SOON MARCH and I am on this AHHHHHHHHRGHHH analog dial-up modem line.
Slow, and expensive. Oh did I mention it was slow?

Damn, I miss ICQ & Skype! I want ICQ & Skype again!

Technorati Tags: internet, disaster

There are several news about my blog: First, I got trackbacked from Mr. Dew! (thank you! 🙂 ),
I got linked again, this time from Melissa (thanks, too!).
And finally Mr. Dew got inspired for his secret//blog post by my Keep Blogs Secret?post. And finally, he also trackbacked this article! Thanks for the ping! 🙂

“Who Links Here” is a new feature I have added which shows you where my blog got linked add. Plus I have added my own blogroll! Also notice that my categories are finished, too! 🙂

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For the records: I am a Management Assistant in Informatics, with CCI graduation.
However eventhough I am, there are hardware errors, even I am surprised about and cannot explain to myself.
Even asking colleagues won’t help because they have no ideas either, (well they should, since they are graduated in the same field as me), but sometimes, even the most wise expert is on his wits’ end.

In this blog’s entry, I want to describe 2 hardware failures which amazed me incredibly:

– The Slow PSU Death –

It’s summer, it’s around 38 °C, it’s one of the hottest summers ever (well, at least in this area).
My PC runs in a AT/ATX combo big tower of 1998 (got it for 5 bucks), with front and back system fans and a server PC PSU with a 12 cm bottom 550w PSU and with 12 CM bottom fan plus the back wall is a grid, so perfect air condition for a summer.
I check irregularly the sensor values in Everest Home.

I have noticed that the cpu voltage was a little higher than usually, and the temperature of CPU and motherboard was a bit higher. and the cpu cooler fan was on maximum speed.
But not always, just sometimes.

The System Temp Warning is set to 70°C for CPU.
I was working on my PC the other day, and suddenly reached 69°C! In panic, I switched my pc off and opened it, all was in perfect condition, cpu cooler fan worked fine, all was perfect. I wondered what the problem was.
then some days later, Windows began to crash, and I had a “unmountable boot value” bluescreen error while booting up.
Luckily I had an image and restored that.
And it happened a 2nd time, a 3rd time, a 4th time.
The summer days went cooler again and so did my PC /CPU and the sensor values in Everest.
But still Windows crashed and unmountable boot volume error and restore image again.

I have also noticed that my special additional sound card had a weird glitch while playing, I thought maybe the chip on the card went damaged. I was asking around for a replacement (but didn’t find anybody),

Then I thought maybe the HDD had an error, and was about to do a 1:1 copy to an other one.
while my PC did that, I went to the bathroom, I returned and my PC was switched off.
It was dead, nothigg happened.
I decided to try out the PSU in a 2nd PC, no luck.

I mean, hey that a PSU causes an unmountable boot volume error, I had no idea! None of those people I asked neither! I was totally baffled, that all those errors were caused by a dying PSU!

The 2nd thing which baffled me:

– The damaged DVD writer –

I had that DVD writer which would only burn every 2nd DVD.
and if you try to boot from a Linux DVD, it would reset the PC.
And Mandrake Linux decided to freeze every 5 seconds a little for a quarter of a second.
Every Mandrake expert (I am none, I use Windows as main OS!) told me it must be a kernel failure and I should wait for next kernel cooker and update then.

When finally even LG support couldn’t help me, I decided to send in the DVD writer for warranty. Amazingly as soon as I have replaced the DVD writer with a CD writer, Mandrake stopped freezing! I never would have guessed, that a faulty DVD writer can cause Mandrake to freeze every 5 seconds! WOW!

Technorati Tags: hardware error, DVD writer, PSU, Mandrake

The ICQ Focus Group is an official group mastered by the ICQ Team to discuss ICQ in general. The ICQ Team reads and replies to posts, as well.
Founded on March, 29th, 2004 the ICQ Focus Group already celebrated its 1st year 🙂

Because some people complained the ICQ Team never replies to posts (eventhough they do), here the complete lists of the ICQ worker Ehud Khenan (hope to have spelled his name correctly!) (Udo – The ICQ Team):

(recent is top (as of latest replies))…
Udo announces ICQ Fight!
Udo suggests trying ICQ 5 since a user has problem using Miranda here.
Udo suggests trying to use ICQ2Go since somebody’s network admin has blocked login.icq.com, here.
About the download pages here!
Rules for photo upload here!
Start a Warsheep game now (single player mode), here!
New ICQ Toolbar with RSS support got released
Random Chat is back here!
Udo replies to loss of ICQ2003b features & ICQ 5, here
About changing of ICQmail ID here
About sound disturbance of TV cards and Flash animations caused by ICQ 5 here
Displaying error of advertisement in Pool, here
Creating an email signature here
Announcement of new ICQ Sounds here
ICQ5 doesn’t run on Win 98… (user meant First Edition). here.
Announcement of the new ICQ Help Center including Knowledge Base and Ticketing Systemhere.
Answer to a user who loses his password (password remember)here.
Regarding the Knowledge Base article about the Auto Update feature
here
Anouncement of released ICQProToICQ5 History Converter, here and here
How to enable the typing sound in ICQ 5 here
About the spam systems of ICQ Client and the ICQ Boards here
Regarding the Ignore List and changing this system here
Announcement of ICQ 5 in Hebrew here
Udo about ICQ Email Support here
Udo thanks for reporting translation errors in ICQ here
Udo about ICQ Spam here
Udo answers a question about the Chat Request and how to change the User Details here
Udo asks for details about a language related problem here
Udo’s reply about a bug when adding users whom’s nickname contains a dash here
About problems with ICQMail account here
Udo’s reply about the ICQ 4/5 & Windows 98 First Edition problem here
Udo’s comments about a big ICQ Improvments List, here here
Udo answering questions about the Devil Factory here
Udo announces that Random Chat will be back here
Udo writes about the releasedate of the ICQ2003b Pro to ICQ5 history converter here
Udo announcing new ICQ Game “Warsheep” here
Udo speaking about how to change the tray icon preferences here
Udo thanking for comments about the ICQ Phone Chat Brazil banners here
Udo’s additional statement about ICQ’s support of Opera browser here.
Udo announcing new Password Assistance System here.
Udo explaining ICQ Devil Market here.
(more info about the availbility of the Devil Market in the Expert Board here)!
Udo announced ICQ 5 in German and Portuguese here.
Expert Chat Log here.
Expert Chat here.
No sending of SMS to Israel from ICQ5 here.
ICQ Video in Windows 98? here.
Anouncement of ICQ 2003b Pro to ICQ5 History Converter here.
ICQ5 build #2309 Announcement here.
flICQ (ICQ2GO! 0.92 Alpha) question here.
About changing sounds & emoticons in ICQ 5 here
About shutting down ICQ services here.
Can’t get in the chats here.
About History Function here.
ICQ5 non-beta from ICQ FTP here.
ICQ Support here.
ICQ Mail Dashboard Announcement here.
Poll: How many contacts do you have on your contact list? here.
Announcement of ICQ 5 Beta! here.
About “is typing” feature here.
Udo explaining ICQ Surveys & ICQ Focus Group here.
ICQMail updated here.
Disable Tray Notifications here.
ICQ Turned 8! here.
Udo speaks about ICQ Pro & Xtraz Center here.
Plugins vs. Xtraz – Udo’s comments, here
Poll: ICQ Pro VS. ICQ Lite here.
Error Code Numbers here.
Poll: Where do you use ICQ the most here.
ICQ answers in welcome to ICQ Focus Group thread here
Does ICQ actually read this board? & helps Nafcom with history export problem in ICQ 2003b Pro here.
ICQMail announcement here.
How do you comment the Spamguard feature of the ICQ Toolbar? – ICQ Team’s answer here.
ICQ Error Numbers Announcement here.
New Emoticons for ICQ5 announcementhere.
Poll: User created features here.
Poll: Chatting with your friends here
Questions To ICQ Team here.
Announcement of multiple chat & Multiple Screen in ICQ5 and random chat here.
Search for people:here.
Poll: Costumizing ICQ here.
Udo explaining Voice Chat here.

Technorati Tags: ICQ Focus Group, ICQ

This listing is discontinued! Please use my blog search on the left! (in the side panel) or click on the categories’ titles.

NEW:A blog categories listing can be found at my categories forum thread!

GMail (e.g. problems!)

GMail out of beta, hahah -MAR/29/2005 –

GMail Invitations Everywhere! -MAR/21/2005 –

A GMail Invitation -FEB/23/2005 –

Gmail Invitations! -FEB/18/2005 –

GMail Invitations Giveaway! – FEB/7/2005 –

My GMail Works Again! – FEB/6/2005 –

A reply from GMail Team – FEB/4/2005 –

GMail News! – FEB/3/2005 –

Trash Mail – JAN/23/2005 –

google error – JAN/23/2005 –

GMail The 4th! – JAN/18/2005 –

Google, Mess Number 3! – JAN/17/2005 –

I HATE GMAIL! – JAN/14/2005 –

Be welcome, GMail & Brazilians and ICQ -JAN/8/2005

My Blog – News

Updated Blog Categories And Udo’s Posts! – APR/10/2005 –

Blog News – MAR/18/2005 –

Now It Works! – MAR/11/2005 –

Added Technorati Tags! – FEB/23/2005 –

Technorati & colours – FEB/23/2005 –

Blog News – FEB/22/2005 –

Trackback Problem: The Solution! – FEB/20/2005

Trackbacks And Their Failures! – FEB/19/2005 –

Trackback and the problems with my blog – FEB/19/2005 –

Some people like my fotolog! – FEB/19/2005 –

RSS Newsfeed Readers – FEB/17/2005 –

I Got Linked! – FEB/6/2005 –

ATTENTION! – JAN/25/2005 –

Too Restrictive! – JAN/25/2005 –

Email Icon Generator – JAN/21/2005 –

Promotion For My Blog! 🙂 – JAN/17/2005 –

Newsfeeds! – JAN/15/2005 –

Funny/Interesting Stuff

I will swim from Norway to the USA if download numbers of Opera 8 reach 1 million in four days – APR/27/2005 –

ICQ Boards Freezed! – APR/21/2005 –

ICQ founder has a new message – APR/18/2005 –

Racistic Emoticons?! – APR/17/2005 –

Power Udo?! – APR/14/2005 –

Devil Factory – APR/13/2005 –

The ICQ Homepage – APR/10/2005 –

ICQ Spam offering ICQ Spam! – APR/02/2005 –

ICQ VS MSN – MAR/26/2005 –

From Zero To Hero! – MAR/26/2005 –

ICQ Support / Expert Board! – MAR/21/2005 –

Weird Postal Service Stamps! – MAR/21/2005 –

Yahoo Buys Flickr, and blogger.com got a blog! – MAR/21/2005 –

My Birthday – The Summary – MAR/21/2005 –

ICQ Expert Chat Log – MAR/17/2005 –

Happy Birthday To Me! – MAR/15/2005 –

invisible – MAR/15/2005 –

card and PCI slot – MAR/15/2005 –

icq experts chat – MAR/15/2005 –

Reinstall of Windows and holy crap! – MAR/06/2005 –

On The Traces Of ICQ or “How ICQ Reacts”. – MAR/01/2005 –

Hooray! – FEB/28/2005 –

ICQ photos and my stupidity – FEB/27/2005 –

ICQ 5 / 2003 b Pro Emoticons – FEB/27/2005 –

Speaking About Opera 8 – Beta 2 – FEB/25/2005 –

Twenty Questions – FEB/25/2005 –

MacDonalds China Hacked – FEB/25/2005 –

ICQ Survey – FEB/25/2005 –

ICQDating Promotion – FEB/25/2005 –

Big Brother TV village it happens now! – FEB/23/2005 –

ICQ Error 2 – FEB/23/2005 –

ICQ Error – FEB/23/2005 –

The While-Disaster – FEB/23/2005 –

Weird Computer Errors (Hardware) – FEB/21/2005 –

ICQ Focus Group – Udo’s Posts – FEB/21/2005 –

Do you like spam?” – FEB/20/2005 –

Keep Blogs Secret? – FEB/20/2005 –

I am not alone… – FEB/20/2005 –

When Nafcom Is Not On ICQ… – FEB/19/2005 –

The Man Without User Details! – FEB/19/2005 –

The Advantages Of Not Being on ICQ (IMing) – FEB/19/2005 –

Holy Crap Am I stupid! – FEB/18/2005 –

Back On A Bad Line – FEB/17/2005 –

Nafcom Is Off For Some Days! – FEB/10/2005 –

Joerg’s Enjoying Old Computer Games – FEB/3/2005 –

My Wisdom – JAN/31/2005 –

Weird Facts – JAN/31/2005 –

Problems seldom come alone! – JAN/28/2005 –

Talking to an AIM Service Bot – JAN/27/2005 –

The Plant – JAN/23/2005 –

The Pre-Disaster! – JAN/16/2005 –

Holy Crap! – JAN/15/2005 –

When International Communication Goes Bad – JAM/15/2005 –

ICQ, how things can change! & Support Nafcom – JAN/14/2005 –

Blogger & My Guestbook & The Time On The Net
– JAN/14/2005 –

I Love Notepad Badly! – JAN/10/2005 –

What Brazilians Can Do, I Can, TOO! =) – JAN/9/2005 –

About Other Blogs

Small interesting bits”. – MAR/05/2005 –
Inspired by this blog – FEB/21/2005 –
Weird Blog! – FEB/21/2005 –
Blogs of others – JAN/25/2005 –
Blog Templates – JAN/21/2005 –
And bloggers – The 2nd! – JAN/20/2005 –
Bloggs and it continues – JAN/14/2005 –

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Inspired by this blog I have started to create a post with cotegories.

For the start only all related to GMail. More will follow! 🙂

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