Author Archives: Arthur

V-J Day

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Arthur

Today marks V-J day, which is the day that (then) emperor Hirohito announced the unconditional surrender of the Japanese forces, eventually ‘freeing’ my parents, their siblings and their parents (the independence of Indonesia was called for two days after that, … Continue reading →

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You asked: heathrow+how+much+time+needed…

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Arthur

Actually the complete search query was ‘heathrow +how+ much +time+ needed+to+go+ through+customs+and +retrieve+luggage +for+connecting+flight’. For that, the searchee ended up somewhere at January’s entries on my travels to Europe. (Note this only applies to travellers who booked connecting flights on … Continue reading →

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Oh. Yeah.

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Arthur

This will probably help a bunch of people out too: Obviously, Microsoft made changes to the shared networking stuff in Windows Vista. For example, in our case a printer has been set to shared on a Windows XP computer but … Continue reading →

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Sol

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Arthur

Today, I received my Solaris kit. The good news is that it arrived here ‘unharmed’. The bad news is that it didn’t come with a sticker. What, you mean, Sun can’t afford sending stickers? And no, Solaris 10 does not … Continue reading →

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iBlackhole

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Arthur

Via Digg, I think, a NASA/MSNBC/Microsoft collaboration to show off the PhotoSynth technology: Space World. I don’t think I ever mentioned it here before: PhotoSynth is an application that can create interactive/3d-like environments from a set of photos. The technology … Continue reading →

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MSIBA

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Arthur

This morning I noticed an ‘MSIBA.tmp’ entry in my (Windows) process list, which I eventually tracked down to a service named asurscsi. The service starts up that same tmp file (which I assume to be some executable) from my user’s … Continue reading →

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4,4something

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Arthur

Alfons mentioned the ‘4400’ show, a series I’ve never heard of before. Apparently, it just started on its 4th season on USA Networks (I think it may be carried by NBC, not sure about this). There’s an extensive Wikipedia entry … Continue reading →

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Certified Unix

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Arthur

I read that MAC OS X is now officially a certified UNIX product. Apparently you have to pay a lot to be officially branded as such (See Slashdot discussion). If you haven’t, now might be a good time to open … Continue reading →

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What, technology?

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Arthur

I find myself browsing the web using Ubuntu’s Firefox (in a virtual machine) instead of using Windows’. Yes, but is that the real deal? Yes, it is. Notice that if you requested your free Ubuntu disks, you also get free … Continue reading →

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Mashable

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, Mashable linked to here (because of my WP plugin CommentCentral), which caused an interesting backlog of affiliated sites to link here too: these sites ranged from other WP-like sites to sites that only show question … Continue reading →

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Hot

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Arthur

More computer stuff: it was so hot today, that one computer just shutdown on me. Its fan was running constantly and I wasn’t too surprised to see it go out. Better leave it off too. The P-100 gave up earlier … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox 2

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Arthur

I worked on installing both Windows 2000 plus the Dutch version of Windows 98: Windows 2000 went (almost) without a problem: it, like Ubuntu, had issues with the APIC setting. Windows 2000 actually doesn’t need too much memory: I used … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, Niels reminded me of VirtualBox (after I toyed around with both VirtualPC and VMWare Player). Coincidentally, my Ubuntu disks arrived too: I already have these disks, but, as the saying goes, these things manage to … Continue reading →

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