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{ Monthly Archives } October 2006

Subversion 1.4 windows binaries

For a few weeks I’ve been waiting for cygwin to update their subversion binaries. But for some reason they are not in a hurry. Subversion 1.4 was recently released and this time it includes some changes to both the repository format and the work directory format. If you use 1.4 binaries on your workdirectory, it [...]

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Publications site updated

As promised a few months ago, I added the final versions of both SPLC workshop papers to my publication site. Also I took the opportunity to clean out the external links section and added a few links to all people I’ve co-authored stuff with. I hope to write some more stuff over the next few [...]

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links for 2006-10-30

XPIH - Tutorials - FMS Navigation
Nice explanation of the flight management computer system in x-plane
(tags: x-plane tutorial navigation)

links for 2006-10-28

Ctrl Tab Preview | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
nice extension that makes switching tabs a lot easier
(tags: extension firefox)

links for 2006-10-25

HBS Biography - Carliss Y. Baldwin
I recently saw a keynote from Carliss Baldwin at SPLC 2006. She had some interesting points on software modularity and the notion of option value and used that to outline the economic benefits of a SPL approach to developing software.
(tags: research development management variability)

SavaJe Falls on Hard Times
Too bad, I [...]

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links for 2006-10-18

It’s a Shipping Container. No, It’s a Data Center in a Box. - New York Times
nice … to bad I don’t have room on my balcony
(tags: hardware sun)

Photography

Like many geeks, I’ve been an enthusiastic digital camera owner for some years now who, so far, is not troubled too much by in-depth knowledge of camera’s, lenses and what not. Basically I fiddle with the controls until it looks ok on the screen. Typically I assume a pose that is not really elegant (camera [...]

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Photos from Paris

I recently went to Paris for work and of course I took my camera. The result can be admired here.

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X-plane 8.50

A few months ago, I posted something about early betas of x-plane 8.50. Well the final version is here and seems to be working as advertised. A lot of feature work has been done in this release, much of it related to the simulation quality but also some nice improvements in the rendering engine.
I just [...]

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more photos

I’ve added two sets of photos to my photo album. The first one is about a visit to Porvoo and the Helsinki zoo with my friend Mark de Lange who was over for a visit a few weeks ago. The second one is from last weekend when I visited Turku together with a colleague (Christian [...]

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