Preventive action
After hearing some rather worrying tell-tale sounds* coming from my PC last night – specifically, from the harddisk with the Windows operating system R...
Category: Personal Computing
Online programming books
Here is a huge list of programming books available online (and mostly free) to file away for one of those rainy days when I can work on some personal programmin...
To Mac or not to Mac?
After returning from the recent Machine Learning Summer School in Australia, my itching to become a Mac user has gotten even stronger*. For a start, there were ...
Fruit picking
Since it’s probably kind of obvious that I have been spending much time diagnosing and ensuring some stability in my Windows PC, I may as well mention tha...
Fingers crossed
The problems (as I wrote here, here and here) I have been having lately with my PC at home seem to be finally over! Finger crossed… My theory is that when...
Power for the needed
In the process of trying to get to the bottom of my intermittent “hanging” problems, happen to come across this useful link: Power Supply Wattage Ca...
Linux: alternative OS
Recent problems with my PC running Windows XP – well, maybe not strictly an OS-related issue but also some hardware faults there as well – have once...
NTLDR missing?
Had another horrendous experience with Microsoft on my PC tonight. Frankly, if it was not for the fact that most of the softwares I use are Windows-only, I woul...
Searching comes to desktop
On a suggestion from one of my colleagues, I decided to give Google Desktop Search another try. I was not particulary impressed the first time I tried it a few ...
Houston, we have a problem
Suffered another set-back with my PC last night – but not topping the smoking incident. On a friend’s advice, I decided to give ZoneAlarm a try. Thi...