Håvard Pedersen

En blogg om vår digitale hverdag og andre pretensiøse temaer :)

Month: juni, 2006

Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notification

After Microsoft pushed the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (hereafter refered to as WGAN) tool out using Windows Update a lot of people cried out in despair. While I actually sympathize with Microsoft for trying to protect their intellectual property, there were several things that didn’t quite sound right:

Microsoft originally assured the press that the tool [...]

Finding the best way to insert Flash

In my earlier days (before I switched from Opera to Firefox, now I use the AdBlock Plus Firefox extension to block ads) I used to surf the web with Flash disabled. I was actually quite shocked to notice how many websites that just didn’t display anything when read though a browser without Flash support. This [...]

Run several IE versions on one computer

This is a webdesigners dream… Haven’t you wished there was a way to quickly test a page in different versions of IE? If you’ve tried, you probably know that installing Internet Explorer will overwrite any verion currently installed. One install at a time. Bah humbug!
The rescue comes in the form of IE standalone distributions from [...]

New and improved

I ended up doing a total overhaul of my homepage. I switched from PHP-Update to Serendipity, from a minimalistic design to something a bit more juicy and finally from Norwegian to English. Quite a lot of changes and I hope to do even more improvements over time. :) Everything is imported from the old blog, [...]

Med mamma på jobbintervju

Jeg har litt backlog på ting jeg vil blogge om, så det kan gå varmt med gamle ting her de neste dagene. :p
I Dagbladet kan vi lese at det faktisk er et reelt problem at jobbkandidater (riktignok i USA) vil ha mamma med på jobbintervju! Problemet er kanskje ikke her enda, men kommer ikke de [...]