Author Archives: Arthur

The trends

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Arthur

Alfons linked to a PDF that contains the musical score of Ives’ ‘The Unanswered Question’. I can’t link to it right from here (I get a dreaded message saying something about “This is the second IMSLP image server”) but it … Continue reading →

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Cards

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Arthur

For something completely unrelated, I decided to check into my older Delphi code and noticed the ‘remnants’ of the code that actually started as a framework for a (basic) Spades1 card game. So hey: the code was actually so readable … Continue reading →

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More computer stuff

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Arthur

It’s a kind of a miserable day over here, which is right in time for some more miserable updates. I read for example that Microsoft is going to retire Windows XP in 2008, which means that OEMs will be forced … Continue reading →

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Debian 4.0 & the other updates

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Arthur

So, after 21 months of development, it seems that Debian “Etch” 4.0 has been released. Which means that I have to get my jigdo-tools out of the safe and start downloading the CDs again (earlier on xsamplex). (There are also … Continue reading →

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Snow@easter.night.com

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Arthur

If there was something like ‘Easter Night’, then it looks like Christmas outside. Snow that is and while this was obviously part of today’s forecast, it took me, dog and the snow plow drivers by surprise. It should be gone … Continue reading →

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Psychic Defense vs. Air Guitar

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Arthur

Stop staring right now: my wicker carpet beater plays like a guitar

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Daylight Savings

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of days I was reading about the energy saving component of the US Energy Policy Act 2005 (Wikipedia), the extension of DST by 4 weeks (earlier on xsamplex). Apparently, power companies in the US didn’t notice a big … Continue reading →

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That didn’t work

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Arthur

Windows Update downloaded the latest security update (KB925902), but after restart I got the folllowing error message: RTHDCPL.EXE – Illegal System DLL Relocation. The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred … Continue reading →

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Pyramids

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Arthur

Via (the always excellent) 3 Quarks, a new theory how the Great Pyramid was built. The original site that hosts a video and 3D animation (from Dassault Systems) requires an extra plugin (3D Life player), which also works on Firefox … Continue reading →

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Back & Subtitles

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I found out that the History Channel was showing ‘Das Boot’, which is one of the movies I can watch a multiple times in a year (earlier). Let me guess: in the Summer of 2007, History Channel will repeat … Continue reading →

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TenSpeed

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Arthur

I learnt that Jeff Goldblum is starring in a new TV show, ‘Raines’. I think the show is on NBC, every Friday night. I read the show is about, wait, let me pull a quote from the site mentioned earlier: … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Arthur

I was so bored, that I decided to look in my CD collection for older games: I fished out Raven Shield, a game I think I bought in 2004 (originally released in 2003 by UbiSoft). If I’m not wrong, back … Continue reading →

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Lazy.

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Arthur

I read that John Backus died at age of 82 (Slashdot discussion), who happened to be the person who apparently led the team of developers that brought us FORTRAN. I recalled his name because I was studying some BNF notations … Continue reading →

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