Category Archives: Binary world

Computers, software & technical stuff

Bye-bye to Skype & Whatsapp: welcome Viber

Posted on 22/04/2014 by freelander

Since lethal Microsoft purchased and took over Skype, the product started declining. That’s an undeniable fact. I still remember the Skype malfunctions and constant freezes with a shiver, right after being bought by Gates Allmighty and for a period of … Continue reading →

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Get rid of Acrobat's upgrade notification popup

Posted on 17/03/2012 by freelander

. Are you tired of the annoying “update acrobat” Acrobat icon popping up in your screen’s lower right corner every time you switch your computer on, or access any pdf document? For getting rid of it, you can go to … Continue reading →

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Asus Zenbook (UX series) keyboard and other issues.

Posted on 08/03/2012 by freelander

It is an awfully bad keyboard. This is the bare, unobjectionable truth; and you can really stop reading here, because what follows is only an explanation why. As a professional, I’ve used many computers in my life, last generation ultrabooks … Continue reading →

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Fix for Macbook white screen of death. Shame on Apple!

Posted on 18/12/2011 by freelander

If one day, on booting your Macbook (likely, after doing some serious modification to your hdd or filesystems), you hear the startup chime but you get an empty white screen showing no activity at all, which stays there forever, then … Continue reading →

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Gingerbread: Google Getting Greedier

Posted on 07/11/2011 by freelander

(Or why Google starts sucking.) At the beginning of times, when Earth was created, Google was Good. They had the “do no harm” philosophy; you were totally free to use their services or not, and when using them, you weren’t … Continue reading →

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How to login as root in Xfce

Posted on 21/05/2011 by freelander

. Log in as root in the Xfce environment is disabled by default. When I tried to google how to change this behaviour, I got lots of results, but useless, because though dozens of people had posted that same question … Continue reading →

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