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For quite a while I had a problem where my PC would shut down under almost the slightest load (for example when I opened 35 tabs of SkyDrive albums at once in IE, but also during many other activities). At first I tried to open it myself, meaning I removed the screws, but when it …

I had already been without a PC for 2 weeks, during which I could only use Mim’s PC and had to save my stuff mostly on a flash drive. On top of that, Mim’s cheap (CZK 7,000 incl. VAT) Acer couldn’t be connected to an external monitor via HDMI (well, it could, but the monitor …

For quite a while now I have kept playing around with my SIM cards, trying to figure out where calls, texts and mobile data are cheapest. About a month ago I bought a Tesco Mobile SIM card, having been carried away by the hype around virtual operators, and once I got home I ran into …

Yesterday, after a day and a half of work, I managed to finish and upload the new files of the website 👻 This link retired before it was even eligible for a pension.. Unfortunately, the key pages have new names and new parameters in the QueryString, so if you shared the previous page on any …

Transforms are a great way to change the appearance of controls in WPF in cases where styles and templates usually fall short. The source code comes from a book published in Czech as “Mistrovstvi ve WPF” ( RIP – this server did not even survive its own hosting.) and in English as Applications = Code …

The full text of this error reads: Unable to open physical file … Operating system error 5: “5(error not found)” (Microsoft SQL Server: Error 5120), where the … will be replaced by the full path to the database you are trying to attach. I am not sure I will describe everything here perfectly down to …

Open the command prompt as Administrator (if you try to run the command below as a regular user, you will get an error Access denied). In W7 and earlier, the command prompt should open with administrator rights if you have an administrator account, but in W8 this is no longer the case: you have to …

Lately I have been weaning myself off Google. The only Google services I still actively use are YouTube, Music, Android, Gmail, Chrome and, to some extent, Maps and Search – but the last 2 services are ones I am trying to replace with MS products. Lately Google has been getting on my nerves quite seriously, …

Last night, just before going to bed, I ran into an interesting problem. I had this code (I did not modify it in any way, it comes from the book Applications = Code + Markup): C#//—————————————————- // PrintaBunchaButtons.cs (c) 2006 by Charles Petzold //—————————————————- using System; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Windows.Input; using System.Windows.Media; namespace …

Do you use Windows Store/Metro Apps or, for example, Internet Explorer, and are you fed up with automatic word correction, such as trochu > troche, telefony > telephony, or i > I? I will help you set up Czech so that this should no longer happen. The first thing that probably comes to mind is …