I was happily running Windows 8 on my 17″ laptop with full HD screen and had no complaints when it came to the size of icons and texts. After I upgraded to Windows 8.1 I noticed that the icons on my desktop and taskbar were a lot smaller than before. After opening my text editor of …
My new laptop has a 17″ full HD screen and I noticed that in Firefox websites would appear larger than they’re actually are. At first I thought I had accidentally zoomed in a bit but Firefox reported it was at 100%. The cause of this behavior is because Firefox looks at the pixel density of …
Recently I installed the wrong version of ShrewSoft VPN which changed the way my Windows 7 computer would let me login. Changing it to having to select a user at start up before logging in is not the way I prefer it. Windows 8 seems to do this by default, especially when you’ve got your Outlook …
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As of today Maximus, the BlitzMax Module Manager, has been taken down. I’ve blogged about this some time ago and today I’ve decided it was finally time to go through with it. The website now redirects to the GitHub organization that hosts the code for the client and the website. These will still be available …
Server provisioning tools such as Chef and Puppet make it easy to automate installation and configuration of your servers. I’ve used both now in two projects where they provisioned my virtual servers built with Vagrant. I’ve first heard of Chef and Puppet when I started using Vagrant. With Vagrant you can quickly get a virtual …
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