Monthly Archives: April 2005

Look! A DVR!

Posted on April 30, 2005 by Arthur

Via Slashdot, an article about making a homebrew DVR. However, I’m not impressed: you don’t need a Windows computer, commercial PC DVR software, commercial DVD player software or even Cygwin to make such a thing. I mean, Cygwin to run … Continue reading →

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WordPress and that

Posted on April 30, 2005 by Arthur

While rescuing and rebuilding xsamplex here on hoogervorst.ca, I pondered switching to a different weblog engine. I was prepared to start completely from scratch, discarding any result any searchengine would return when people look for existing entries previously found on … Continue reading →

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Starship troopers

Posted on April 29, 2005 by Arthur

I read Dvorak’s pessimistic editorial about the state of game development. While I agree with his basic conclusion that ‘it’s the same game over and over’, I’d like to add that the same is true for movies. Back in the … Continue reading →

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A world cup with 2 Dutch teams

Posted on April 28, 2005 by Arthur

Found via nu.nl (for some kind of reason I always end up there since other more responsible Dutch sources use the subscription model), uh, where was I? Yes, apparently during 1938 World Championship Football, there were two Dutch teams playing: … Continue reading →

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The White House Today

Posted on April 27, 2005 by Arthur

Athe t the White House, a false alarm sent President Bush to the underground shelter. According to a spokesman: “There was an indication that an aircraft has entered the no-fly zone. There’s an investigation to determine what it really was.” … Continue reading →

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May 4th/May 5th

Posted on April 27, 2005 by Arthur

With Canada’s political parties in a hubris because of an upcoming showdown vote in the House of Commons, most (invited) MPs and prime minister have opted not to attend the 60th anniversary of the Liberation in the Netherlands (Dutch). (more … Continue reading →

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Backup

Posted on April 27, 2005 by Administrator

Back up after days of deliberations and things and things. The hardest part was actually deciding to go forward or wait for data to come back from Alfons’ server. I’ll end up reimporting that data: most likely I have to … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on April 27, 2005 by Administrator

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Evil that strncpy does

Posted on April 20, 2005 by Arthur

Which one is more evil? strcpy or strncpy? Google suggests ‘strcpy is evil’ when looking for ‘strncpy is evil’. Or as the author of this page says: The usage of char * and strcpy causes horrible memory problems due to … Continue reading →

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What’s on your Internet today?

Posted on April 19, 2005 by Arthur

I have been running the LinkSys router (and the WAP) since April 10th, so I might just spill my gall: the last time LinkSys issued a firmware update for the BEFSX41 was almost a year ago. Isn’t that a little … Continue reading →

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A Pope!

Posted on April 19, 2005 by Arthur

We have a pope. Naturally, this is something that needs to be celebrated and discussed. Metafilter, for example, has a lively discussion that ranges from outrageous funny to, yes, insightful. Rogers Cadenhead has the domain scoop. Literally. Here’s a something … Continue reading →

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AttenSHUN

Posted on April 18, 2005 by Arthur

It came to my attention that this year it’s the Queen’s 25th coronation anniversary. Which led me to look around for quotes and events that happend around that 1980 coronation. I can only remember the infamous pictures of a smoke … Continue reading →

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More of this, please

Posted on April 17, 2005 by Arthur

In this week’s ‘More of this, please’ I was going to highlight a couple of political matters, but I decided to cast the light on airplanes and carriers. First, Ghost of a Flea’s plea for a missive for Marketplace concerning … Continue reading →

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