Monthly Archives: September 2005

Missing in action

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier today, I had an error coming up while installing a piece of Microsoft software: ‘The Installation/Removal of a Previous Program Was Not Completed’. After a search in both the filesystem and registry, I ended up finding the culprit in … Continue reading →

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HCC is going to be…

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Arthur

I read that the Dutch National Post (KPN) is taking over the Dutch internet provider HCC-net. To be more precise, it’s actually KPN’s subsidairy XS4ALL (More on XS4ALL’s exciting service over at Niels’ [English!]). Yahren ago, the HCC (organizer of … Continue reading →

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September 11th

Posted on September 11, 2005 by Arthur

It’s September the 11th, and look at the CNN’s frontpage of their website! Just a link to the memorials. I’m shocked. Alan (and Alfons in the comments) has a brief posting about that specific day. I do recall everything too, … Continue reading →

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Separated at birth?

Posted on September 10, 2005 by Arthur

Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between Boing-boing’s Doctorow and Half-Life’s Freeman? Or am I the first one to notice this? Wait: maybe there was a look-a-like contest. Update 2: OK: one of them is a bit more chunkier (just … Continue reading →

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Where is that file?

Posted on September 10, 2005 by Arthur

Weird news from The Netherlands: the criminal file on nuclear scientist Khan has been displaced, or as Dutch people would say ‘misappropriated’. Yesterday, a retiring judge for the Amsterdam judicial court who presided the Khan-case in the early Eighties, told … Continue reading →

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Et tu, compile

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Arthur

Managed to compile Regnessem, that is, a couple of hours ago. Compiling isn’t too much of a job: the original directory structure within the tarball (which I hope is the latest version of the program) has been setup nice and … Continue reading →

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I seek you

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier today, I found this gem: a multi-messaging protocol supporting curses based messager CenterICQ. It works too, as you can see from the images. It really works, and you have to take my word for it. The good thing is … Continue reading →

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German uh-lections

Posted on September 7, 2005 by Arthur

I‘ve been slightly following the German elections. I watched the German election debate at CNN the other day (English commentary started to annoy me at the end) and was not really impressed with both party leader’s performance. One German commented … Continue reading →

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The Army Corps of (Civil) Engineers

Posted on September 6, 2005 by Arthur

Mind the title: I’m a bit confused about the Army Corps of Engineers. Their Mission: "to provide quality, responsive engineering services to the nation". Clearly, this is a part of the military that is in charge of the civil works … Continue reading →

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This beat is dope

Posted on September 5, 2005 by Arthur

After playing with D-lusion’s ‘Rubberduck’, which is actually fun, I skidded towards the Propellorheads’ ‘RebirthMuseum’ site to see if I could try it. Yes, I ‘ve read today’s Slashdot discussion about this one too. If I remember correctly, the link(s) … Continue reading →

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Flatland

Posted on September 4, 2005 by Arthur

Alfons made an aerial picture of a neighbourhood I’m pretty good familiar with. It brings up both good and bad memories: memories about the homecoming last year and the ones of my youth, 25-30 years ago. One thing I noticed … Continue reading →

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Safe mode for you

Posted on September 4, 2005 by Arthur

Last week I was so busy removing spyware of computers (the manual way), that by now I should be able to tell the Windows boot menu options apart. You know which one I mean: the one that you get after … Continue reading →

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Maria? Is that you?

Posted on September 4, 2005 by Arthur

Looking for hurrican Maria? Don’t look further: we’ve got you covered! As long as it doesn’t go North yet, we may just miss out on the fun! Or thinking of it: if our American neighbours made a bit more clouds … Continue reading →

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