Recent content by gertmenkel

Well, time to go to speedtest again I guess. [http://www.speedtest.net] That's my internet speed, slower than 56% of my country. But compared to what I've seen in this thread, I think it's pretty good.

I once called my phone company, they have those annoying phone menu's (press 1 to do this, press 2 to do that...) in Dutch. Last option was "Druk op 5 om de taal in Engels te veranderen" (Press 5 to change the language into English). They probably don't have any customers whose native language...

I downloaded the public beta and it seemed nice: the interface was intuitive, the 'missing' start menu should not be much of a problem and the whole thing was almost perfect. For a tablet. Since I won't buy a tablet (at least, not very soon), I probably won't buy Windows 8. Also, I think...

1. Gender Male 2. Age 17 (18 in a few weeks) 3. Continent you currently live in Europe 4. Do you use nicotine-products? No 5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff? No 6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you? Yes...

It boots. Randomly. No better way to start your day than having to get out of bed at 3 AM to turn your computer off. Odd thing is I checked every possible solution: the BIOS autoboot-timer thingy is turned off, the wake-on-LAN thingy is turned off (I eventually disabled the on-board ethernet...

Dog poop. Sidewalk. That's all I have to say.

I use Chrome at school (because it's either Chrome or IE8), Firefox when I am going to be on the internet for a long time, Opera when I need to look something up quickly (because at my computer it starts fastest), and IE9 if an old a web developer just doesn't care about browsers other than IE...

Living in the Netherlands, nothing much. This was the first time I ever heard your anthem. You guys really love your queen, don't you? O.o

1channel.ch has links to every episode that has been aired, but you could always use Google to wfind more links.

In the Netherlands we haven't had any snow for at least two months... Why can't we have some snow, its unfair!

Capitalism. Communism only works in theory.

Gert Menkel :) What, you think I would actually use my real name on the internet?

Native Dutch speaker, learning English at school. I'm also learning how to translate latin texts to Dutch, but I wonder why anyone would actually need something like that. Well, I guess it's usefull for finding jobs...

This is just weid... Here's another weird optical illusion I found on the web a few days ago: When the black-and-white picture changes to the coloured image, keep staring and when it changes again it seems to be a normal picture, but if you look away...

About a year ago my computer started turning itself on at random times, sometimes around midnight, sometimes when I was making my homework, so after a month I got sick of it and made a program monitoring all power activity (like sleep/power on/power off). After I completed it (took some time...