Category Archives: You-Asked

You asked: Linksys WPSM54G

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Arthur

My WPS54G just died yesterday: this is a Linksys (nee Cisco) Printerserver that supports a whole slew of USB based printers. I had it tied up to my Canon MF5650 printer and if I remember correctly, installing was as easy … Continue reading →

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You asked: Creative Live 24-bits review

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of years ago, I bought a Creative Live 24-bit USB, after finding out that my latest computer’s soundcard did not include a wave-out mixer. The logical choice was to find an external USB soundcard and luckily I didn’t … Continue reading →

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You asked: Windows+applications+laptop

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Arthur

Obviously, a lot of people prefer buying laptops nowadays and the question ‘Which+applications+install+laptop+windows’ pops up regularly in the Apache logs at this domain. I’m not providing links to the applications (or will use links sparingly, I guess). I assume you … Continue reading →

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You asked: heathrow+how+much+time+needed…

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Arthur

Actually the complete search query was ‘heathrow +how+ much +time+ needed+to+go+ through+customs+and +retrieve+luggage +for+connecting+flight’. For that, the searchee ended up somewhere at January’s entries on my travels to Europe. (Note this only applies to travellers who booked connecting flights on … Continue reading →

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You asked: Satellite A100-TA9 review

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Arthur

There we go again: you ask and I’ll take a look at it. To start right off: It appears that Toshiba has been rushing to get laptops out before the official Vista release, last week. Their current A100 high-end laptop … Continue reading →

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You asked: Sharp+Develop+ODBC+example

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I had that question appear in my logs a couple of times, and I assume, these are (beginning) .Net developers who want to have examples of accessing database servers via ODBC in C#. If you thought this was going to … Continue reading →

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You asked: Toshiba laptop Vista upgrade

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Arthur

From the logfiles, the inevitable question about the (supposed to be free) Vista upgrade. That is if you bought your laptop before October 2006: Canadian Toshiba users (and there are apparently a lot of them1) interested in a ‘free’ Express … Continue reading →

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You asked: a haiku on the metric system

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Arthur

An intriguing question from the apache logs: “a haiku on the metric system”. Why yes, we covered that many moons ago in this post as filed in the category of (you guessed it) ‘haiku’. (Wikipedia: what is an haiku, again?) … Continue reading →

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You asked: CreatMapFile & Pascal

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Arthur

From the logfile, a Polish person looking for CreateFileMapping, most likely using Delphi. The WIN32 API function is generally used in conjunction with ‘MapViewOfFile’. You’d generally use memory mapped files when you run into a TStringList limitation. At this stage, … Continue reading →

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You asked: Thanksgiving in SQL

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Arthur

From the logs: how do you calculate Thanksgiving in MS SQL? For that, first a background reminder from Wikipedia. There are of course two kinds of Thanksgiving: A Canadian one (which is the second Monday of October) and the US … Continue reading →

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You asked: most difficult shoot’em ups

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Arthur

Without a doubt, that would be Salamander, a Konami game released in 1986 (wikipedia). I played the game on an MSX-2 home computer and I actually tried to beat it last year (that older entry has a screenshot plus original … Continue reading →

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You asked: How to find count between two dates mssql

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Arthur

Oh: that age old problem. It depends on what you’re looking for? Years, days? Milliseconds? /* Days */ select DATEDIFF(D, getdate(), ’10/11/06′); select DATEDIFF(Y, getdate(), ’10/01/02′); You may need to be careful with using year calculations: obviously MS SQL does … Continue reading →

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You asked: Lyrics “The People are heroes now”

Posted on September 26, 2006 by Arthur

So you wanted to know the lyrics of ‘The People are heroes now’ and you stumbled on a rant about Civ 4 (I’m still trying to find out about the performance details of that specific track in the game). I … Continue reading →

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