Monthly Archives: January 2007

The Tech-huh?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Arthur

Left over stuff from the weekend: The Neuros OSD, which claims to be the first Open Source Linux Embedded Media Center for US$ 229.00 or something. It’s the buzz around now since it’s Linux-based and (evidently) a growing community of … Continue reading →

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I‘ve been hesitant writing about the game Oblivion (link goes to Wikipedia). The game was passed on to me by Alfons, who complained that (while amazing) the game concept didn’t really appeal to him: too long and dreary. It appears … Continue reading →

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You asked: Sharp+Develop+ODBC+example

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I had that question appear in my logs a couple of times, and I assume, these are (beginning) .Net developers who want to have examples of accessing database servers via ODBC in C#. If you thought this was going to … Continue reading →

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Raise the rafters

Posted on January 27, 2007 by Arthur

What do you mean by that? There were troubles at Dreamhost, which you may have noticed yesterday: apparently the MySQL server went down. If the host’s MySQL goes down, xsamplex goes down the tube too. We’ll be bunkering down the … Continue reading →

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You asked: Toshiba laptop Vista upgrade

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Arthur

From the logfiles, the inevitable question about the (supposed to be free) Vista upgrade. That is if you bought your laptop before October 2006: Canadian Toshiba users (and there are apparently a lot of them1) interested in a ‘free’ Express … Continue reading →

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SOTU-STFU

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Arthur

Maybe it’s just me, but every time I see the abbreviation for the State Of The Union (SOTU), I keep reading STFU. What to say about the State of the Union? Earlier (way earlier) on video chat with Alfons, Alfons … Continue reading →

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You asked: a haiku on the metric system

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Arthur

An intriguing question from the apache logs: “a haiku on the metric system”. Why yes, we covered that many moons ago in this post as filed in the category of (you guessed it) ‘haiku’. (Wikipedia: what is an haiku, again?) … Continue reading →

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WP 2.1

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Arthur

Right: I did a WP 2.1 update on a test site on one of my servers at home and, looking at all these superlative comments how WP 2.1 is going to change your life, I’m going to say it: I’m … Continue reading →

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A bug, you say?

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Arthur

There’s a silly bug in a C# method for the Calendar class, GetWeekOfYear: Its second parameter accepts a CalendarWeekRule enumeration with a choice of FirstDay, FirstFourDayWeek or FirstFullWeek. There’s a great example in the API/documentation, however, the samples don’t seem … Continue reading →

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Wuther

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Arthur

I read that a huge storm has hit Europe, disrupting many public services and killing a couple of dozen people. That doesn’t really compare with the snowstorm that hit our province a couple of days ago. Did I mention the … Continue reading →

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What’s up?

Posted on January 14, 2007 by Arthur

The most interesting stories this weekend: 1. The substitute teacher, the spyware and the jail term: A 40-year old teacher faces up to 40 years of prison after being convicted of exposing her class to pornography. As mentioned by ms. … Continue reading →

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How to convert you to metric

Posted on January 13, 2007 by Arthur

This week’s most interesting story goes to this Slashdot discussion: “How can we convert the US to the Metric system”. Most likely the question popped up, because of NASA’s recent announcement to go completely metric for their future mission(s) to … Continue reading →

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I can do this too…

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Arthur

Yes, so I needed to get into an older site and I forgot the password, because, well, back in 2000, I used an FTP program (FTP Explorer) that (at that time) was pretty popular. So, late last year, I was … Continue reading →

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