Author Archives: Arthur

The Horrors

Posted on October 29, 2006 by Arthur

Yesterday, we watched ‘Contact’ (1997) and ‘Silent Hill’ (2006). Quite the combination to watch on a stormy Fall night. Contact, starring Jodie Foster, is an adaption of a novel by astronomer Carl Sagan and features good effects and a compelling … Continue reading →

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Dev-is-Duff

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Arthur

Maybe I missed the big announcement, but since when are Microsoft SDKs freely available? I needed the ADO/MDAC SDK (I get tired of reading stuff online too), et voila et la the SDK1. Not completely: it’s obviously hidden behind the … Continue reading →

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Fire(not)Fixed 2.0

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Arthur

I downloaded Firefox 2.0 yesterday, but noticed that I still see the same problems: random hangups, most of time in the middle (or after) processing a recently clicked ‘hyperlink’ 1. I don’t recall having problems like this bad in Firefox … Continue reading →

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Duly Noted

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Arthur

I know of Google’s Notebook (Notebook), but I was obviously surprised to see it completely integrated in my search results (look for the Note This link). I think this is new, because I never noticed it before. Plus, it does … Continue reading →

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Bullets and the revolution

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier, I saw that the commemoration of the Hungarian Revolution of 56 (Excellent Wikipedia entry) turned into violent clashes with the riot police (BBC news). Even an old (Russian) tank made an appearance (briefly?) as you can tell from that … Continue reading →

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The tech and then that

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Arthur

Via Slashdot (the thread) a link to a video at C-Net showcasing a Dell laptop with a 20 inch screen. That’s godawful laptop too, as you can tell from the faces of the people nearby the guy carrying the ‘thing’. … Continue reading →

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Wandle Band

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Arthur

Wandle Bandcol. 1. A group of loitering people. or an organization or part of an organization that has no or lost focus and therefore is (and will be) rudderless. ex – “After Pam left, the electrical dept. was nothing but … Continue reading →

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You asked: Thanksgiving in SQL

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Arthur

From the logs: how do you calculate Thanksgiving in MS SQL? For that, first a background reminder from Wikipedia. There are of course two kinds of Thanksgiving: A Canadian one (which is the second Monday of October) and the US … Continue reading →

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You Lock

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Arthur

I decided to give McAfee’s Online virus scanner (requires IE5 or higher because of ActiveX component) a run only because they have been pretty persistent with their ‘Please, we need your money to survive in this rocky business market of … Continue reading →

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Knoppix 5

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Arthur

To celebrate the 289128280th cakeday, I decided to load up Knoppix on the P100 laptop. There were a couple of issues, right at startup (where I had to add a couple of commands to skip the ACPI functionality). After detecting … Continue reading →

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You asked: most difficult shoot’em ups

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Arthur

Without a doubt, that would be Salamander, a Konami game released in 1986 (wikipedia). I played the game on an MSX-2 home computer and I actually tried to beat it last year (that older entry has a screenshot plus original … Continue reading →

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The bulge, huh?

Posted on October 15, 2006 by Arthur

Last night, The History Channel showed ‘The Battle of the bulge’, a typical 60s/70s war movie depicting the 1944 hard fought battle in the Ardennes. Typical, because it features many big screen stars in a story that is not soo … Continue reading →

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Holy Cows!

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Arthur

So, a question programmers (the Earthly types) should be able to answer: How many cows can you store in a genuine Int64? If you’re a smartass, take it away!

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