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Month: December 2011

Published on < 1 min.Leave a comment on Paid Google Storage manual renewal fuckup

Year ago or so, I bought a paid Google Storage quota. Google -- of course without asking me, if I'm willing to do so -- set automatic renewal of my Google storage quota. Because I think what I think about automatic credit card operations, first thing I did after was to disable this (cancel renewal). To my extreme surprise this blocked me from manually renewing my subscription next year.

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Published on < 1 min.Leave a comment on Windows XP Activation Help

I had to activate (or actually reactivate) one of my old copies of Windows XP. Due to being tired I have entered an incorrect serial number. Windows given me a proper information, with link to Windows XP Activation Help webpage.

After clicking that link...

Nice! :] I know that Microsoft has dropped support for Windows XP completely, but this is something that actually shouldn't happened right?

Published on 2 min.Leave a comment on Windows treats ZIP files like folders

Windows treats ZIP files like folders, you say, right?

If you still believe in such bullshit then try to:

  • open some ZIP file,
  • select some or all files,
  • press Ctrl+X to cut them,
  • navigate to some destination folder and
  • press Ctrl+V to paste copied files.

This simple operation can take hours on Windows!

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