On several websites (WordPress, Chrome Web Store and WhatsApp web), all the text displayed in Chrome was italic. Until I came up with this solution...
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While several people already have Windows 10 installed, my computer didn’t offer me that possibility yet. Searching on the Internet, I found several sites explaining how to force Windows update to dow…
A time ago, I wrote about how you could only read GPS data from a USB GPS device from one COM port and how I managed to handle GPS data on different virtual COM ports so that the GPS data could be use…
When you want to compile your source code – Java in this case – on multiple machines, you might get into troubles when special characters are coming in. I mean, when you just type plain English, nothi…
I had a hard time getting the Intel Wifi 5100 AGN, which is displayed using lspci as “Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection“. A lot of people are complaining about it. It…
Sometimes I take some serious risks. Like, suddenly, I get the urge to install Ubuntu on my office’s laptop. A Dell Latitude E6500. But, there’s a Windows 7 installed, consuming the entire disk. So, w…
Given this situation: You have a GPS device that is connected to your computer (not handheld) via physical COM1. Now you want to use this data in two different applications, say: a Route Navigator and…