Category Archives: Ordinateurs

Computers and that

Hey, hey.

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Arthur

Today, I discovered that the StringReaders/Writers in .Net only support UTF-16 encoding, which may lead to some breakage if you’re using it in combination with the XMLSerializer object. If you really need to maintain UTF-8 compatibility, you should use a … Continue reading →

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MT, ToolTips

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Arthur

You may have noticed that version 4.0 of Movable Type has been officially ‘open sourced’ (at Digg). I prefer the rather more correct ‘Movable Type has been relicensed under a less restrictive (or more restrictiver, whichever you fancy) license’. After … Continue reading →

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Table stuff

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Arthur

Via Slashdot, I read about the announcement of ‘Microsoft’s Surface’ (actual website): it’s a table with a (touchscreen)1 LCD and can be used for a variety of purposes. The idea is neat, but not original: Earlier in 2005 or 2006, … Continue reading →

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That, SerialPort stuff

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Arthur

The log files reveal that a lot of people are looking for help using the Serialport component of the .Net Framework. Once again, lets summarize: There are two ways to access data from a serialport: 1. Using the DataReceived event … Continue reading →

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I forget

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Arthur

I forgot that there was an update for WordPress, followed the regular procedure. I forgot more: while copying data over from one directory to the other I noticed that I missed too many files: Uh, I missed the -R. Then … Continue reading →

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More cards

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Arthur

Since the weather was bad yesterday and (it appears) it’s going to be same-o-same-o today, I decided to check into (this last month’s) Card objects project. All earlier created objects were ‘non-visual’ objects and since we’re playing cards, it probably … Continue reading →

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SerialPort and C#

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Arthur

What you need to know before you plan to work on Serial port communication: 0. Create a good test environment. You may need com0com (earlier) which can simulate a loopback between 2 ports. 1. Carefully choose between non-blocking and blocking. … Continue reading →

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Minor-Finer

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Arthur

I added a minor project to the ‘Current Project’ section (Right here), a program in C# that generates classes based on table meta-data. It’s simple and it works: there are a couple of tricks how to collect metadata from ODBC … Continue reading →

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Cards

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Arthur

For something completely unrelated, I decided to check into my older Delphi code and noticed the ‘remnants’ of the code that actually started as a framework for a (basic) Spades1 card game. So hey: the code was actually so readable … Continue reading →

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More computer stuff

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Arthur

It’s a kind of a miserable day over here, which is right in time for some more miserable updates. I read for example that Microsoft is going to retire Windows XP in 2008, which means that OEMs will be forced … Continue reading →

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Debian 4.0 & the other updates

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Arthur

So, after 21 months of development, it seems that Debian “Etch” 4.0 has been released. Which means that I have to get my jigdo-tools out of the safe and start downloading the CDs again (earlier on xsamplex). (There are also … Continue reading →

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That didn’t work

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Arthur

Windows Update downloaded the latest security update (KB925902), but after restart I got the folllowing error message: RTHDCPL.EXE – Illegal System DLL Relocation. The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Arthur

I was so bored, that I decided to look in my CD collection for older games: I fished out Raven Shield, a game I think I bought in 2004 (originally released in 2003 by UbiSoft). If I’m not wrong, back … Continue reading →

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