Got Mail?

I sure do, 306.000 e-mails. Exim sure was busy :)

Interesting spam

Call me weird but I like to read spam. I like knowing what the spammers are doing every currently  and today I received an e-mail from the wife of the former Yugoslav/Serbian president (war criminal/ass hole) Slobodan Milosevic. I've included a screen-shot of the e-mail below.

See, this is more interesting to us who live here in this region, because that man has made quite an impression on everyone, even though it was 100% bad.  And this probably comes from Nigeria or some other African country considering the spelling and everything. But you've got to hand it to them, they are smart, did their reading on our history and everything...  Aah, those Nigerians, what will they come up with next :)

Good FREE software that I use on a regular basis

    Skype: online chat, voice call software, very functional, secure and stable

ImgBurn: is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application

CDBurnerXP: my new favourite recorder, does the job and it's functional

    Putty: is a free SSH/Telnet client that I use almost every day to connect to remote servers

Notepad++: is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages

TeamViewer: TeamViewer is a tool that let's you connect to a remote computer which is also running TeamViewer and offer remote support. Quite handy, lot's of functions. I've been using it since it came out, and haven't looked back since.

IrfanView: is a tool that I use to resize photos, save screenshots etc. Small and useful.

VLC:  is a media player that can play almost anything, even RAR'ed movie chunks and damaged files. Very useful if you don't like installing codecs and that kind of crap.

µTorrent: is a tiny and fast BitTorrent client

TED: Torrent episode downloader - does exactly what it's names states

ShutDown Timer: ever wanted to lay down, watch a movie and fall asleep without worrying about your computer being turned on all night. With shutdown timer you set the timer and that's it. Your computer turns off after the set amount of time.


Well, these are my most used applications at the moment.

Flashing my NEC ND-3520A DVD/RW drive

So I've been having some issues with my DVD recorder lately. Well not lately, for quite some time now, but I never got around thinking about it. Today I wanted to backup some files and guess what, the recorder didn't want to record the DVDs. It worked OK with some, but not with others. So I decided to flash the damn thing.

I downloaded the NEC ND-3520A flash tool, ran it, and It said that my firmware version was 1.04 - the current was above 3.07. So I had a way too old firmware.

Once I flashed it, powered down my computer and turned it on again, everything worked like a charm. I guess the firmware was so old it didn't have any information about the new media (DVD's,CD's) that were out there. My 100th post, Yay.

Well, I did something good today, now I can go out and make a snowman :)