September 1st, 2010 By Rudi Categories: General

What are the odds. We wanted to goto the shops to get some material for my wife to make some stuff. It’s after 3PM already and the material factory is a good 45minutes drive away with all the robots and traffic into town.

We can’t drive my car cause it’s empty and I know the garage will be a bit busy right now. Ok, no problem, use the other car.
Neither can we drive my wife’s car since the battery is flat. oh boy…
Luckily my mom’s 4×4 is still here, but doesn’t want to start. what now? I pop open the bonnet and see the battery terminal came loose. Fixed it, started the car, ready to go.
The gate won’t open. I’m sure I put in a new battery a few months ago, and the light comes on. Call the cleaning lady, her remote doesn’t work either. I still used my remote yesterday. And to top it off, I can’t find the key for the gate motor so I can’t even override the motor. AARRRGG!!!! Something tells me we shouldn’t go out today

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August 31st, 2010 By Rudi Categories: Humor

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August 25th, 2010 By Rudi Categories: Developement
July 27th, 2010 By Rudi Categories: Humor

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July 26th, 2010 By Rudi Categories: General

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July 15th, 2010 By Rudi Categories: General

I have to setup a backup strategy for a small Windows-only network, with no dedicated backup server.

The criteria for the backup strategy are as follows:

  1. the users don’t need to, or shouldn’t have to work with the backups
  2. the backup program should run automatically, without user intervention. Even if the user isn’t even logged in, but the computer is switched on.
  3. I would prefer if the backup are not propitiatory, or images of the data so that the client can quickly locate a file and restore it if needed. The client should also be able to restore the backups on any PC, with or without the backup software installed.
  4. The backup software should be able to backup to a networked PC, either via a mapped drive on the client PC, or via it’s own login mechanism.
  5. it has to be free
  6. I need incremental backups

So, let’s get started. The list of backup programs I’m going to try out are:

  1. GFI Backup Home Edition – Website
  2. Syncback – Website
  3. Cobian Backup – Website
  4. BackupPC – Website
  5. Synctoy – Website
  6. Bonkey (Backup Monkey) – Website
  7. Comodo Backup – Website
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June 25th, 2010 By Rudi Categories: Humor

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June 1st, 2010 By Rudi Categories: HOWTO's

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May 31st, 2010 By Rudi Categories: Stuff For Sale

PixelView GeForce 6800 GT 256MB 256 bit 400MHz RAMDAC +TV-out DVI AGP Retail PV-N40GA(256JD)

GPU Core Clock 350 MHz
Memory Clock (256Bit) 1000 MHz
CineFX Engin 3.0
Intellsample Technology 3.0
Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support
RAMDACs 400MHz
OpenGL 1.5 support
Maximum resolution supported 2048x1536x32bit at 75Hz
16 pixels per clock rendering engine

Superscalar GPU architecture; Process 0.13u
Nvidia CineFX 3.0 engine
On-chip video processor
High-speed GDDR3 memory interface
nVidia UltraShadow II technology
64-bit texture filtering and blending
Nvidia Intellisample 3.0 technology and FreceWare Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
NVidia nView multi-display technology and Digital Vibrance Control 3.0

Price: R1000

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May 5th, 2010 By Rudi Categories: Humor

I got this on email today:

When girls don’t put out!!
This was written by a guy…..it’s pretty damn smart.

Girls — Please have a sense of humor!

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE:

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, ‘I don’t fe el like it, I just want you to hold me.’

I said, ‘WHAT??!! What was that?!’

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear..

‘You’re just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.’

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, ‘Can’t you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?’

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfit s. She couldn’t decide which one to take, so I told her we’d just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, ‘Lets get a pair for each outfit.’

We went on to the jewelry department where sh e picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you… She was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn’t even know how to play tennis

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, ‘That’s fine, honey.’ She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, ‘I think this is all
Dear, let’s go to the cashier.’

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, ‘No honey, I don’t feel like it.’

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, ‘WHAT?’

I then said, ‘Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You’re just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.’

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, ‘Why can’t you just love m e for who I am and not for the things I buy you?’

Apparently I’m not having sex tonight either…….but at least that she knows I’m smarter than her.

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