Recently I needed to wipe a couple of disks because I wanted to sell them. I’ve played around with shred under Linux (like from a Knoppix live cd) but why go through all this hassle? I encountered Darik’s Boot and Nuke. Boot from the cd, select the drives and press F10. That’s all there is.

A recent upgrade of Hotmail prevented me from sending new mails with Firefox 3 on Ubuntu. I could hit “reply” but it was impossible to edit the body of the e-mail. The editor just remained disabled.

The solution to this is fairly simple. Open Firefox, type in “about:config” in the addressbar and look for the setting “general.useragent.vendor“. On my Ubuntu machine this was set to “Ubuntu”. If you change this to “Firefox”, quit Firefox and restart it then you should be able to compose new e-mails in Hotmail.

On the other hand you might also consider using a reliable free mail provider.

Wie graag de verschillende Belgische bieren eens wil proeven moet op 15 of 16 november zeker naar Brugge komen.

In “De Halletoren” zijn er op die dag meer dan 50 brouwerijen en meer dan 180 bieren te proeven. Enkele koks geven ook een culinair tintje aan het geheel.