Category Archives: Ordinateurs

Computers and that

Me count(*)

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Arthur

I just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.3: so, curious as any developer would be, I took a look in the WordPress database definitions and noticed that three new tables were added. All of them take care of categories and (the … Continue reading →

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Your watermark file is b0rken

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Arthur

My wife noticed weird entries in the apache logs which seem to imply that there’s a cross-site security problem in a file called ‘watermark.php’. The thing is, that I have no idea which software package includes that file but it … Continue reading →

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Word

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Arthur

I was looking for dictionaries the other day after finding myself impressed by Ubuntu’s Dictionary program. I found out that it actually uses the gdict set of XML files, and you can find around the freedict site (you probably need … Continue reading →

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Ghost Recon (Gold Edition)

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Arthur

Actually, I wanted to play Medal of Honor, but since the (original) discs appear to be damaged, I ended up looking at a set of Ghost Recon discs. I bought this set of discs 3 or 4 years ago (for … Continue reading →

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Oh. Yeah.

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Arthur

This will probably help a bunch of people out too: Obviously, Microsoft made changes to the shared networking stuff in Windows Vista. For example, in our case a printer has been set to shared on a Windows XP computer but … Continue reading →

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MSIBA

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Arthur

This morning I noticed an ‘MSIBA.tmp’ entry in my (Windows) process list, which I eventually tracked down to a service named asurscsi. The service starts up that same tmp file (which I assume to be some executable) from my user’s … 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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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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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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Your Windows just broke

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Arthur

So, you have a Toshiba laptop and Windows doesn’t want to start anymore and shows a message in the form of ‘system config corrupt’ and ‘please insert the original Windows disk and press ‘r’ to start Windows Recovery Console’. If … Continue reading →

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Copy, Paste.

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Arthur

Via something, I ran into this (online) sarcastic presentation about Copy Paste Programming (Wikipedia). A quick summary: Best practices: Find the code, copy/paste it, compile, enjoy! Pitfalls and workarounds: The copied/pasted code does not compile. Copy/Paste larger portion of code. … Continue reading →

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