When inserting a 40 GB or larger drive into a computer running windows 98, the system will only see correctly the files that are written in the first 32 GB, the rest appear as somenthing very hard to decypher. In order to avoid this, two partitions (or more) of maximum 31 GB are required insead of one...

Boot viruses can be easily removed from the hard-drive by booting from a clean disk and typing fdisk /mbr. What I didn’t knew is that it is also required (in some cases) that the command sys c: is typed. This is at least true for a windows 98 second edition installation infected by Preboot.A (alias...

These are the nameservers of RDS Internet Provider (in Timisoara at least): 193.231.233.1 193.231.233.8

Today I had to go to a place in order to configure a computer to have access to the internet. And the very (Microsoft type of) weird thing that kept on happening was that I got a message like “Your network card conflicts with another computer that has the IP address 192.168.0.39″. The weird...

Ok. I’ve figured out that every day I learn somenthing new about computers but I forget the old not-so-up-to-date information. Just like a First-In-Last-Out queue. This must be how the brain works and blogger is going to help me keep it all in my head… or at least on my blog.