Big Brother TV village it happens now!

Oh and you remember this?:Big Brother TV village

I have just seen this on TV:

And Big Brother spoke: “The misery of the rest of the world shall not effect you, live in your own world, the drop falls, Big Brother – The Village – March,
1st, daily.

Now, Germany (Endemol, Netherlands) gets crazy!

I will post about it as soon as it happens 🙂

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A GMail Invitation

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! 🙂
Download Opera
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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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icqerror


icqerror
Originally uploaded by nafcom.

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! 🙂

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Technorati & colours

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!

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The While-Disaster!

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!

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Blog News

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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Weird Computer Errors (Hardware)

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!



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