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Disabling the NVIDIA System Sentinel Power Indicator

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If you remember my last post about the power indicator problem I have, with my nVidia based video card, I finally managed to fix it!

I noticed that in the list of services in the control panel, nVidia installs a service. It turns out that this service is displaying the annoying error message. So I went on and stopped and disabled it. This way I can start using my computer without any delay.

Finally!

My Brain is Blue ?!

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Your Brain is Blue
Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow.
You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don’t try to think away your troubles.
Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

Software Engineering Proverbs

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Must read.. :)

One I really liked :

Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: QA testers don’t change anything. They just report that it’s dark.

Nokia 6300 Can’t Use Bluetooth Handsfree

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Crap! Remember my post the other day about the bluetooth handsfree (Nokia BH-700) I bought? It turns out that my Nokia 6300 has a major problem with bluetooth handsfrees.

At the beginning I thought it was the handsfree that had the problem but its the phone. From the time I started using it people was not able to hear me, sound was breaking Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone and Usability

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I was looking at all this ads and videos on YouTube about the iPhone and I must say it is a wonderful gadget! It surely can make gadgets freaks like me loose sleep. I would have stop sleeping until we have them in Greece, if I wasn’t precautions about the usability a touch screen can provide.

I switched away from my Ericsson P900 because of the touch screen. It is true what Steve Jobs said in the introduction of the iPhone that every app needs it own interface, and how a fixed keypad cat do that and that we solved that problem decades back with bit-mapped displays and mouses. But I think that a phone is a different Read the rest of this entry »