Windows Media Center Fiji Beta - reloaded ?

During some research I noticed that there were some great news for fans of Beta versions. Microsoft not only invites new beta users for the Windows Vista Media Center successor at Microsoft Connect but on the chinese written blog thinknext.net a few screenshots surfaced showing the first milestone of Windows 7.

Famous PSP Networking Internal Error 80110404

OK, this time no long foreplay.
You got this error or still have it when you try to establish a network connection with your shiny Playstation Portable? Here comes the solution:
Simply restore the PSP's default settings. Easy as it sounds you only have to access system settings in your XMB (Cross Media Bar). After confirmation your PSP will restart and you have to input your name and your timezone again but at least you can now set up a network connection again :)

Custom Firmware 3.80 by M33 released

While searching in the internet, I found out that today the new version of Dark Alex's famous custom firmware for the Playstation Portable has been released.
The latest official Sony PSP firmware 3.80 has now been hacked and I made a rar archive containing all the needed files.

AS ALWAYS: ONLY USE IT ON YOUR OWN RISK!!!

CFW 3.80 M33

Abobe Photoshop CS3: internal error 2739

Yeah, you are so happy to hold the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 in your hands, unwrap the packaging and want to install it. But what is this: Oh Firefox must be closed to proceed the installation. Well nothing easier than that. The mousebutton makes a click and Firefox is closed.
Then something weird happens: You get a cryptic error message.
It says something like

Internal error 2739

and you suddenly realize this is not good.You are running the new shiny Vista but why do you get this message? OK, what to do next? Well, here comes the wonderful solution. Because this error already happend to me when I tried to install a demo of Dreamweaver CS3 I knew you simply have to register a DLL file.
So open your command prompt as an admin, make sure your current directory is C:\Windows\system32 and type in the following: regsvr32 jscript.dll
And that's all. After this procedure you restart the installation and everything will work as it was intended to be :o)

How to get fucked...

So what does it need to feel 100% fucked up?
1st - Become ill - yeah the winter season is the time when everybody is coughing, sneezing and makes funny stuff like that. So why shouldn't you become ill aswell?
2nd - Be busy all the time - Yippie that's even more annoying. Beside being ill why not also have a bunch of work to be done at best yesterday...
3rd - no sleep - that's the hardest of all. It is very simple. Just don't go to bed cause you have so much work to do...

I grant you will feel absolutely fucked up and maybe you even doubt you are still alive.

OK, enough cynism. I just feel totally fainted and there are so many reasons... but everthing bad comes to an end eventually.


***UPDATE***
1&1, Germany's biggest server hosting company, has some big problems right now. Some of their DNS servers are dead right now, so there's a total chaos on the few remaining ones.
And: TAAAADAAAA!!! Guess who was called when he tried to regain some sleep? Oh yeah wonderful times...

Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft + Download

If you like to download this video, just click here
Have fun :)

downgrade your Wii photochannel

Maybe you accidentally upgraded your Wii system's Photochannel from 1.0 to 1.1 and lost this way the ability to play MP3 files during photo presentation. For this case, Nintendo released a manual to solve this problem:

Going back to Photo Channel 1.0
If you updated to Photo Channel 1.1, but have decided you prefer Photo Channel 1.0 (for instance if you’d rather have MP3 compatibility instead of AAC), going back is easy. All you have to do is select the Wii button from the Wii menu, choose Data Management, and select “Channels.” Select the Photo Channel icon and confirm you wish to delete it. After that, Photo Channel 1.0 will automatically be available again from your Wii menu. If you ever change your mind, simply go back to the Wii Shop Channel and re-download Photo Channel 1.1!

Please note that Wii consoles that come with Photo Channel 1.1 pre-installed at the factory will not have the ability to delete that version and downgrade to Photo Channel 1.0 (these consoles became available at retail in December, 2007).

Happy 10000 ;-)

As an IT guy you gotta be crazy sometimes. I counted the days it takes until my email account gets 10000 spam mails.
On 31st October 2007 I stopped deleting my junk mail folder's contents, like I did every day before and yesterday my spam counter finallly crossed the 10000.
So if you count the days from 10/31/2007 until 01/07/2008 you get: 68 days.
The list of top scorers were advertisements for penis enlargement pills, cialis, viagra or cheap sex cams.
Well, let's see how long it takes to get 10000 next time...

math can be fun

You are sick of boring math junk? OK, let's have some math fun ;-)

Welcome Malta and Cyprus in the "Euro club"

On 01/01/2008 Malta and Cyprus joined the European currency union knows as "Euro". This important historic event started a new discussion about another highly explosive topic:
Is the EU ready for new members anytime soon or should we, the “big family of 27”, say NO! until we have solved the current problems of the eastern enlargement?

On the one hand the EU’s main aim is to bring even commonwealth to all of its members, but this needs more time than most member states like to wait.
For instance: When Ireland entered the EU back in 1973 it had the nickname “poorhouse of Europe” for many decades but nowadays the not only the economy but the whole wealth of the Irish has increased rapidly. This not only happened to Ireland but also to Italy and Spain. Many see these as examples of how it should be.
So this showed the Europeans learnt to help each other but surprisingly especially new member states like Romania or Bulgaria are scared this could endanger their chance to get the same wealth for their economy like the “older” member states already gained.
But there are not only economic reasons for or against new EU members.
A big topic is the human right situation in some ‘maybe in future member states’ like Ukraine, Turkey or Belarus. These states have different states of democracy. Officially they call themselves democratic countries but in our point of view, they make use of the torture and death penalty.
So how much do these maybe soon to be members fit into our community?
Another big difference with Turkey for instance would be the religious tensions, because all other members are mainly Christian countries with other religions in minority.
But that’s all still up in the air.
Right now the EU has talks with some states like Serbia about their current situation within Europe but only time will tell us if this is a first step into getting new members.

In my opinion the EU is not ready for new member states yet. We still have to solve current economic and cultural problems first, like separatist tendencies in the ‘old members’ and the just joined countries to make sure it will work out for all of us.
In the end I think the European continent could become something like a little UN with the EU. Giving the minor states a voice in the theatre of big global players.
So sooner or later new members will join the EU, the only left question is when.

Skype on PSP

While reading Sony's website for the Consumer Electrics Show in Las Vegas I noticed a little
hint that there will be a Skype client for the PSP soon. So I'm sharing this with you people ^^

Good bye 2007 - Welcome 2008

Well 2007 is over, lets give a warm welcome for 2008. This year will bring some interesting and hopefully events that will change work, school and of course life.
Beside this there is also the Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria where I got two tickets for the semi-final in Basel. If everything works as planned I won't have a chance to attend there, but this is no bad news for me. This would mean I got the job in China and compared to this some tickets for Euro 2008 are really lame ;)
So long fellows. Have a good start into the new year with all the wishes to come true.
Thank you so much for all the nice and kind people around me. I love you :-*