Wardriving is horribly easy. It really is. Just open up your laptop in any public place and by the time you crack open your Firefox you’ll have 3 or 4 open access points to choose from. Either its "linksys" or "default" or "philips" .. It does not really matter. You’ll be able to surf away…
If you decide on spending some money this Christmas and build your own computer you might want to check out Newegg’s online power supply calculator. Just been talking to a friend of mine who spent a whopping 800 euro’s on putting together a pc workstation that would put a small dent into a mac pro.…
Sorry for the long lags in-between posts but the year is coming to an end and a lot of loose ends are in need of being tied up. So busy times are upon us once again. So much even that I came home yesterday and crashed on the sofa without even taking a look at…
A sure fire way to waste away half of your Sunday afternoon and upset ones spouse is to start up a little lab to “try out some stuff”. Before you know it your office is littered with hard drives, scsi cabels and computer towers in various stated of decomposition. You spend half of your waking…
Now here is an interesting article I found. Its kinda tying in with the whole "Overload Reset Reboot" article I wrote earlier. I’m a big Java lover. Lets face it : Coffee is to me something that is something that is as common as the light of day. Beside it being a caffeine drink that…
If absence makes the heart grow fond, you guys and girls must be screaming for my return right now. I know. My hiatus in Blogging and contributing to the web has been going on for too long. The sweet irony of the thing is : It where extreme demands on my time and attention by…
Sometimes surprises come from unexpected places. Wal-Mart for example. I mean : The mom and dad computer department store ? Not realy where one would think of finding a cutting edge peace of technology. So what’s the story ? A few weeks ago Wal-Mart Us started offering cheap-ass 199 dollar pc’s for standard office and…
The last thing we want to do is turn this into a "this is me and this is my hamster blog" boring you into oblivion with tons of useless facts about what is going down in our personal lives. But hey : Since this is kind of a technological-reality show anyway, it would be rude…
This morning, 6 AM , Driving through the stormy autumn weather. Dark outside .. raining. Inside the car .. Darkness and the sound of one of DJ Tiesto’s Live sets. And all along I just could not keep myself from smiling.. Grinning.. Enjoying the privacy of my own thoughts. LIfe is a surprise sometimes. It…
A strange shift in the way I use my computers has occurred over the last few weeks. Something that comes kind of unexpected, more so because its one of the main reasons I use computers : Communication, or, in my case : The lack of the latter. I have come to the shocking conclusion that…
Readers, friends, bedfellows lend me your ears for I am at a point where I would lovingly set off into the mother of all rants. Well, not the mother , but perhaps the aunt, or the niece or something. In any case : I’m annoyed enough to turn a slight shade of purple. My peeve…
I might be a bit on the late site of reporting about Gmail"s latest addition but at least you’ll get an informed opinion on the whole new Imap thing. Since last week Gmail offered up IMAP services to most of its users (I say most , not all) and to be quite frank : I…
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon ! With the hype of the new release behind us, its time to take a long hard look at the operating system itself. Yeah it’s new and funky and has wobbly windows. But lets start looking beyond the first impressions and throw the monkey to the lions. Step one : Basic installation.…
This weeks KWTV is a video snippet from this weeks podcast. Together with Bart Broeckx of the Belgian Ubuntu Forums we get a demonstration on how you can use your Ubuntu Live Cd for other things then just tinkering around. Imagine your Windows XP copy dies in the proverbial ass and leaves you devastated with…
Still got a ton of work backlogged after a very busy weekend (but rest assured, there is a lot of content coming your way) but I did want to slip in this little article in cause .. Well .. Men are just like little children. A acquaintance of mine visited the US recently and just…
Sometimes reality just surprises you and you have to go with the flow. I was out last Saturday morning, browsing through our local weekly fleamarket. My initial goal being to snap some shots of old and discarded technology so I could do a little writeup about it. The weather was kind of cloudy and the…
Some of you might not even notice the little bird in the far left corner of our banner. Not very surprising. It has been there for a long long time. The original "heron’ sign is one that I chose as my personal "logo" over twelve years ago. Standing proud with arched wings it has been…
This week on KWTV we go into Martha Steward mode. Opening up my wifes Ibook to replace the keyboard and add a stick of Ram. Stick around to see how we debunk some Apple myths (The store is always right and there is such a thing as Apple memory) and turn KWTV into some surgical…
Its been quiet on the western front as they say for more than two weeks (disgrace) and a very VERY busy schedule has kept me away from the Knightwise.com podcast. But aside from the daily life getting in the way of general affairs … there also has been a lot of banging and hammering going…
This week in KW-Tv episode Two, we dive back in time and digg up an old video made by Swift and me some 4 years ago. At the time Wireless networks where not as abundant as today, yet we ventured out in the search of an open hotspot. Take a look and watch just how…
Its a glorious Saturday morning and I’m hanging out at the local coffee shop rattling away at my macbook. Bless the poor soul who once again left his wireless access point unattended and gave me the opportunity to write this post. Coming to think of it, a connection to the web empowers me to do…
I sit in the main mess-hall of the GroupT college listening to some Norah Jones on my Ipod. Attention zeroed in on the screen of my macbook I hardly notice the not that bad looking girl that sits alone on the table next to me. Across the room a group of people is chattering away…
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With the poll pointing out the obvious I decided to give it a go and slam together my own video podcast. So check out my very first attempt at becoming the next Tv-Star in Cyberspace. (only kidding). In this episode of KW-tv I talk abou the latest Apple keynote and all the new products that…
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Hello my cyber-savvy readers. It was a dire time but we have recovered. And I say that not in the sence that I have recovered some long lost files (although I have done a fair share of that over the last few days too) We have recovered from a little attack of off-line life. Times…
It is not very often I get the possibility to have a few hours to kill, but last Sunday I found a small gaping hole in my agenda that just screamed to be exploited. With our living room redone, I was in dire need of some original artwork for the walls. And when I say original, I do mean : Original.…
Ok , I could not slip this post up. Being the cross platform slider that I am, I love working with Linux but hate the sometimes rudimentary boxiness of the graphical user interface. Sure .. Beryl and all that stuff is nice. But there must be nicer ways of totaly pimping out your Gnome desktop…
An interesting conversation at work inspired me to do todays article. Topic at hand was a brochure of one of the local supermarkets featuring a very nice desktop system from HP. For a small 900 euro’s you could get your hands on a sleek black compact tower with a 2 gigahertz Octo-Core system. Dvd writer,…
