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Monthly Archives: November 2006
16.what
In this part of the country, Fall appears to have gone through a dip: for the next couple of days, we’re expecting temperatures around the 16 degrees. I read they have the same kind of weather records in the Olde … Continue reading
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Comment -uh- noes
Earlier I turned off comments to the recent posts because of a ‘sapm’ attack on one of the earlier entries. I’m considering closing comments on a more frequent rate than the now (default) 7 days. That said, I may have … Continue reading
Posted in Truro NS
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Libraries
I don’t specifically remember the first day we (Alfons and I) set foot in a library, but I’m almost certain it was at or around age 8 or 9. The rest is history: there used to be a joke going … Continue reading
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Gross vs. Good 5
References: Excellent images of Saturn hurricane. Hurricane on Earth photo is Isabel in 2003.
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Not my mail
Every couple of weeks, I check the Mother of all Email accounts to discover that all these hundreds of e-mails in that inbox are all just spam. It makes no sense. The more spam, the less I check that e-mail … Continue reading
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Yo, what happened to that sound?
Via e-mail I received a question about the Toshiba P100-SD3 and sound problems on Debian/Ubuntu: I decided to run Knoppix 5.1 [I’m still not sure about which version that is, but it’s the latest for sure] and see what goes … Continue reading
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Notably. Really.
We had our first snow today, a whopping 2 cms. or so. It surprised the dog too, yes. Earlier this week, while playing a couple of mp3s I discovered that today’s MP3 players generally don’t work for me. I can’t … Continue reading
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Yo, what happened to the news?
In the run-up to the US mid-term elections, it appears that every minor news item was blown up into political theater: First, Kerry made a jab at the White House, which in turn demanded an apology because Kerry (according to … Continue reading
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Com0Com
For the uninitiated: Framework 2.0 nowadays sports genuine Serialport communication (via an extra class/component called SerialPort) [MSDN link]. The class supports both blocking and non-blocking forms of communication. A good way to test serial port communication (without the need of … Continue reading
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