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Howto start jEdit
At work I am (in)famous for being responsible for getting jEdit onto everybodies desktop. Despite this everyone uses textpad :-/. These primitive souls are perfectly happy (or ignorant?) not using...
View ArticleNew PC & moving itunes library
Update 30/07/2009I just bought an imac and moved the same, but now consolidated, library over to it. Check out the instructions here. Whoohoo! My new hardware has arrived, last week. I’ve been busy...
View Articlewlan gone paranoid
My new PC has a smc wlan pci card. It seems to work very nicely with none of the problems my previous siemens usb stick had. However, I appear to be not connected, currently. Which is strange since I...
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fun with rendezvous
One of the innovative features in Mac OS X is support for DNS-SD, a.k.a. rendezvous. I was reading about the Java API for this by apple on onJava. Then I wondered if there was a pure Java...
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suspend to ram
Over the years I’ve encountered, and resolved many annoying software issues with Microsoft. This one surely counts as one of the more annoying ones. The problem is that my previous PC had a beautiful...
View Articlethat must hurt
Ouch, Forbes unleashes some criticism on Microsoft. Well deserved IMHO. I don’t see the result of six years of development by thousands of software engineers reflected in the currently marketed...
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More on MS
It’s now a few days after my previous post on the vista delay. The rumour machine on the Vista delays is now rolling. A few days ago this wild claim about 60% of vista being in need of a rewrite...
View ArticleS80
I first began considering buying a new digital camera around 2004. Forever drooling over dpreview and other sites I ultimately decided not to buy the Canon powershot A90, 520, 620, IS, IS2. Reasons...
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spyware sucks, but ubuntu doesn’t
Last weekend (Easter holiday, long weekend) was a good opportunity to visit my parents in the Netherlands. Apart from beloved son, I’m also their system administrator. Last time I made a mistake, I...
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reinstalling windows sucks
Luckily my parents laptop came with a windows xp pro cd and a valid product key. So, after backing up important files using ubuntu, I proceeded to install windows. I had forgotten how annoying...
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motorola cable modem & bittorrent
I’ve blogged several times already about my problems connecting my pc to the internet: Getting a cable modem was easy. I mistakenly bought a Siemens wireless network USB stick. Solution don’t buy crap...
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Modular windows
There is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas...
View ArticleGX WebManager
Before joining Nokia, I worked for a small web startup in the Netherlands called <GX> Creative Online Development during 2004 and 2005. When I started there, I was employee number forty...
View ArticleOoO 3.0 Beta & cross references
It still looks butt ugly but at least this bug was partially addressed in the latest beta release of Open Office. The opening date for this one, “Dec 19 19:13:00 +0000 2001″. That’s more than seven...
View ArticleMigrating iTunes windows to Mac
As part of my recent imac purchase came the chore of moving stuff over from my old hard drive which thankfully survived my old PC’s premature demise. Part of the stuff that I naturally wanted to...
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