Monthly Archives: July 2007

What, technology?

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Arthur

I find myself browsing the web using Ubuntu’s Firefox (in a virtual machine) instead of using Windows’. Yes, but is that the real deal? Yes, it is. Notice that if you requested your free Ubuntu disks, you also get free … Continue reading →

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Mashable

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, Mashable linked to here (because of my WP plugin CommentCentral), which caused an interesting backlog of affiliated sites to link here too: these sites ranged from other WP-like sites to sites that only show question … Continue reading →

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Hot

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Arthur

More computer stuff: it was so hot today, that one computer just shutdown on me. Its fan was running constantly and I wasn’t too surprised to see it go out. Better leave it off too. The P-100 gave up earlier … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox 2

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Arthur

I worked on installing both Windows 2000 plus the Dutch version of Windows 98: Windows 2000 went (almost) without a problem: it, like Ubuntu, had issues with the APIC setting. Windows 2000 actually doesn’t need too much memory: I used … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, Niels reminded me of VirtualBox (after I toyed around with both VirtualPC and VMWare Player). Coincidentally, my Ubuntu disks arrived too: I already have these disks, but, as the saying goes, these things manage to … Continue reading →

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All things Bulgarian world news.

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Arthur

This morning, I read that the 6 Bulgarian medical workers who were imprisoned in Libya, were released after being jailed for 8 years. If you’re not familiar with the story, the BBC’s Q&A and the workers’ profiles should get you … Continue reading →

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Back to X3

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Arthur

With the intermittent (or rather lack of) Internet connectivity earlier this week, I decided to copy my savegame data back to the X3 game directory and play a couple of rounds. Fun: it took a while to get used to … Continue reading →

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Oh, yeah

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Arthur

There’s this excellent BBC documentary about Titan (the moon) and Huygens (you may remember the successful Huygens touchdown). If you’re a movie aficionado, pay attention to the music that accompanies many scenes. You may recognize some of them. There’s a … Continue reading →

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Spoof attacks

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Arthur

Earlier, when logging on normally I discovered that my Internet connection had literally come to a crawl: simple pings to google.com took over 3000 ms. Then I remembered that I may have mentioned it here before (or earlier), but I … Continue reading →

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In science today…

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Arthur

I read that astronomers have read detected light from the earliest stars in the galaxy. To be exact: Light that shone 13 Billion years ago. The astronomers used a technique called ‘gravitational lensing’ (using gravity of nearby objects to magnify … Continue reading →

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You, bug

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Arthur

I get a kick out of hardware bugs: unexpected (but consistent) behaviour in normal electronic devices. Maybe electronic devices were a bit more foolproof back in the early 80s, basically because they probably had a couple of simple transistors that … Continue reading →

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Virtualization

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, the BBC had an article about the data ticking timebomb: the problem that old digital files are getting less accessible because these files can’t be read by newer versions of software. This particularly happens with proprietary binary file formats: … Continue reading →

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LCD screens (and savings)

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Arthur

I was reading this article at BBC’s (Gadget threaten energy savings) and was not really surprised about the finding that the larger the LCD screen, the more power they use, eventually, topping regular CRT screens (at and around 24 or … Continue reading →

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