Author Archives: Arthur

Is there hope?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Arthur

I‘ve been working so much on Vista and XP lately that I forgot about the release of the first beta for KDE 4.2, so naturally, I decided to download the latest binaries (“Neon”). Barring any bugs, I have to say … Continue reading →

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You asked: Creative Live 24-bits review

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of years ago, I bought a Creative Live 24-bit USB, after finding out that my latest computer’s soundcard did not include a wave-out mixer. The logical choice was to find an external USB soundcard and luckily I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Oh: hello, what’s your name, again?

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Arthur

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but walking in a town far away from the place I lived for almost 30 years, I keep thinking I recognize faces of people who I knew and who I’m 100 percent certain of … Continue reading →

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A bang.

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Arthur

Via New Scientist: researchers have worked on a (computer) model that suggests that our universe could have emerged from another collapsing universe. The researchers based their model on a theory called the Loop Quantum Cosmology, which was (originally) proposed in … Continue reading →

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Fluctuating

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Arthur

I was complaining the other day to Alfons about the weather: or rather, I think he sent me a screenshot of the long term weather forecast for this area, dryly asking ‘if I thought the temperature was fluctuating’ and ‘how … Continue reading →

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A public service announcement

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Arthur

So, yesterday, I noticed that the WordPress download site was already seeded with the new 2.7 version, while the official blog was still yawning about the RC2 of that version. For no particular reason I decided to deploy it. I’m … Continue reading →

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L’Arena

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Arthur

There are certain directors who have a knack for picking out music that goes with specific scenes. One of them is David Lynch, the other one is Quentin Tarantino. I’m not particularly a fan of Tarantino movies but I thought … Continue reading →

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In Reverse

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Arthur

I thought this article (‘Learning the iTunesDB file format’) was an excellent background on the principles of reverse-engineering existing binary file-formats. I’ve done some ‘clean room’ reverse-engineering too and at the end of the project, I was able to extract … Continue reading →

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Barba-what?

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Arthur

Staying on the programming topic: One of the best parts of Roundabout (previously) was the filtering mechanism: before mail was downloaded, the user could (if needed) invoke the Filter dialog box and mark which mails were going to be downloaded … Continue reading →

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On. I think.

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Arthur

Meteorites collectors, astronomers and researchers are trying to pinpoint the track of the meteor that lit the Prairies’ sky, last week. According to the latest calculations (Newtonian, hahaha), the meteor had a mass of 10 tons. I say, it was … Continue reading →

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Prints

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Arthur

We had the first snowstorm of the year, and from what I gather, it (was and) will be a lot worse in Nova Scotia, so why should I complain about our 15 or so centimeters? I mean, I dug out … Continue reading →

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Planet 9

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Arthur

US astronomers have made the first photo of an exoplanet that makes it rounds around the star Formalhaut. It took a couple of years (and a lot of patience) to actually confirm the planet though. Additionally, another team of astronomers … Continue reading →

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Retro-Code

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Arthur

I was looking for older code through some older projects and I ended up looking at the code of RoundAbout, a Delphi project I headed with a German (Roland), an American (Marcos) and plenty of other contributors. I thought, I … Continue reading →

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