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Computers and that

X3: The Reunion

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Arthur

I‘ve been hesitating to write a review of the (PC) game ‘X3: The Reunion’. Basically this is because the game has left me with both bad and good impressions. First of all, the graphics (if you have a good graphics … Continue reading →

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Help! My Auto-Hide is br0ken!

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Arthur

Yeah, that kind of sucks when you work in Windows XP: apparantly this can happen frequently when Windows returns from hibernation. The good news is that you don’t have to reboot your computer for this. UseNet to the rescue: – … Continue reading →

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Yo Grep this.

Posted on August 20, 2006 by Arthur

A couple of weeks ago, I ran into this article at InformationWeek, titled ‘The Best Software Ever Written’. It read as one of those novels that have a true climax at the end: So there you have it: The single … Continue reading →

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Your Wireless Is B0rken

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Arthur

Today, I broke my wireless network setup under Windows XP: Going to Available Wireless networks the following message appeared (see image): Windows cannot configure this wireless connection […] If you want Windows to configure this wireless conection, start the Wireless … Continue reading →

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More Computer stuff

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Arthur

After fiddling for hours with a 7100 AP to discover that it does not want to work together with my Linksys router, I decided to give up for now. I suspect that it just doesn’t like retrieving an IP address … Continue reading →

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Civilization, Part 11.

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Arthur

After many moons of playing Civ 4 (all posts on xsamplex), I finally found out who sings that brilliant opening tune: It’s the Talisman a cappella, a group of a cappella1 singers and students operating from Stansford University. The song … Continue reading →

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Good News!

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Arthur

If I say there’s good news, then there is good news: I have finally started to appreciate The Gimp! This is because there was always one reason why I pertinently refused to use it: plugins. Everytime the program opened, it … Continue reading →

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So?

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Arthur

I was doing a quick trial update to move Alfons to the latest known WordPress version locally (on the server called Elsie). Yesterday, I had to download an older version of WordPress to see how my plug-in behaved (it behaves … Continue reading →

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Databases

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Arthur

I updated the plug-in accordingly but want to issue a warning before you download it: I’m not sure which version of MySQL does or does not support ‘left outer joins’. I think versions > 3.23 should be able to do … Continue reading →

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W10x!

Posted on July 30, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier, I uploaded ‘AHCommentCentral’, which is a plug-in that is supposed to help closing/opening comments and ping/trackbacks in your post sections. For now, you’ll find the initial release right over here. That is, for the daring people who experiment. It’s … Continue reading →

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W09

Posted on July 30, 2006 by Arthur

After many moons of bickering and looking around, I decided to take up the gloves and do it myself. Currently I’m using a slightly altered script that ‘automatically’ folds and closes comments after 10 days. This generally works good and … Continue reading →

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The 25 list of computer stuff

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Arthur

In preparation of the 25th anniversary of the ‘Beige Box’, eWeek lists the 25 most influential products of the last 25 years (the list starts here). Number one is (naturally) the IBM PC. I can find myself in most of … Continue reading →

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More stuff

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Arthur

Yesterday, I mentioned the logs that I imported into a Postgres database: today some minor cleanup and indexing/reindexing. The full monty: The hardest hit day was on September 7th of 2004: 86803 hits in 2 hours only. I’m still collecting … Continue reading →

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