Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Googles

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Arthur

I think some kind of rollout of Google’s ‘warning harmful site ahead’ feature went amuck this morning. Please refrain from clicking the link that says ‘This site..’: it’s inaccessible because I suppose everybody in the world is trying to find … Continue reading →

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The Other Third Kind

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Arthur

I‘m not sure where this all came from but this week it appears that ternary logic is the craze on reddit (proof 1 and proof 2). The first link goes to a short Wikipedia article about the Russian’s (successful) attempts … Continue reading →

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Spring? Is that you?

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Arthur

You can almost hear Spring coming! There’s 10 – 15 cms of snow going to be piling up tonight. This means we finally get a break from those -20 degrees mornings, because it will be a hot Winter day with … Continue reading →

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FFMpeg II

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Arthur

I have been making small progress on my own front-end for FFMPeg (earlier on xsamplex). Earlier I was rounding up the serializers (data persistence, data schmersistence): the threading code was finished months ago. I just have to connect the last … Continue reading →

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This. means. Winter.

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Arthur

The last couple of days I had the tune of the game ‘This Means War’ (Microprose, 1993? 1994?) in my head and that, generally, is not a good sign. I mean, from Thursday to Saturday the thermometer hit a new … Continue reading →

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Web Traffic

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Arthur

It’s that time of the year again, and a quick summary of last year’s statistics for this domain As suggested last year, December 2008 pageviews hit beyond 100,000 mark: either directly or via any of the popular search engines. My … Continue reading →

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Heathrow, sucks and then III

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Arthur

My favourite peeve is a rant about Heathrow, London’s premier airport with those long line-ups, confusing pedways and oh-so helpful security guards (earlier on xsamplex). And irritating survey people who question you why you didn’t buy that backpack even after … Continue reading →

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At your Runlevel

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Arthur

Earlier, I was reminded of the typical run-levels on Linux systems, particularly on Debian-flavoured distributions. For future reference1: Run level 0: System Halt Run level 1: Single User/No networking (“Safe Mode” for Windows connoisseurs). In this mode daemons won’t be … Continue reading →

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Click. Clack.

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Arthur

Some stuff I ran into earlier. I read that Windows 7 (Microsoft much-touted successor of Windows Vista) is positioned as the ‘Linux Killer’ (original article at Computer World). From that article: The threat to Windows comes entirely from “netbooks” — … Continue reading →

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Nemesis of the 3rd kind

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Arthur

The Windows Vista sounds remind me of several sound effects of a game (Konami’s Nemesis III) I used to play on an MSX-2, a whole long time ago. Compared to the other games in that series, this episode was actually … Continue reading →

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Haute hyperedroit

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Arthur

I saw ‘Religulous’ (imdb) the other day, which I thought was entertaining but awkward. I like Maher’s ‘Real Time’ show and I think his work is generally funny, but he’s definitely no Michael Moore. If you plan to watch it, … Continue reading →

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Backup

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Arthur

One of the weirdest stories last month, was the one about JournalSpace losing its data and then just plain calling its quits because the inability to recover that lost data. There’s an endless discussion going on at Slashdot and at … Continue reading →

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The 100 Lunar Pound Question

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Arthur

To my surprise, I found out that New Years Day started with a (white) bang in Nova Scotia: In New Brunswick we got away with a couple centimeters and mainly the cold wind. Justice was served, I believe and I’m … Continue reading →

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