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{ Monthly Archives } January 2007

porsche gets some good testdrive

It’s only two days ago that I bought myself a Lacie Porsche 0.5 TB usb drive. Yesterday evening, after a reboot caused by an apple security update weird shit started to happen. Basically windows informed me that “you have 3 days to activate windows”. WTF! So I dutifully click the activate now only to watch [...]

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Bought a porsche

I bought myself a nice porsche :-). The 1/2 TB type.
Currently the ntfs drive is formatting. I seems to be really quiet, compared to my maxtor external drive or my internal drive. Altogether I now have 1.1 TB of storage available. Should keep me happy for a while.

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Website maintenance

I did some maintenance on my website this morning. I fixed a few broken urls to websites of friends. Also I added a workshop paper to my publications that I co-authored with Ronald Bos nearly two years ago. Then I discovered that several of the papers there had incomplete references, so I fixed that too.
Finally, [...]

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another ubuntu installation test

Currently ubuntu is my favourite linux distro. I don’t use it but do install it and other distros from time to time to see where linux is going. I’ve been doing this a couple of times per year since about 1995 when I was biking home from university with 30 or so slackware floppy disks [...]

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links for 2007-01-26

Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1 — TechNet Magazine, February 2007
Interesting info on some kernel level improvements. Most of it sounds like I could use it on my XP laptop.
(tags: vista kernel sysinternals)

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Upgrading to wordpress 2.1

Whoohoo, wordpress 2.1 was released this morning. I’m upgrading tonight so expect a few hours of downtime/reduced functionality.
Update.
Well that went relatively ok. It seems a few of my plugins needed upgrading. Sadly, no compatible upgrade was available for widgets which I used to beautify my sidebar. But the important stuff is still there. I removed [...]

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Winter has come

I thought it was a bit chilly this morning while walking to work. I just checked with forecastfox: -18, five degrees colder than was predicted yesterday evening for last night :-).
Finally, winter has come.

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links for 2007-01-23

DougT’s Ramblings: More on the Mobile Companion.
nice out of the box thinking going on there
(tags: firefox web20 mobile)

links for 2007-01-22

Windows based installer - testers and developers wanted - Ubuntu Forums
interesting, I’ll probably give this a try when it is done
(tags: ubuntu linux windows)

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links for 2007-01-20

Apple iPhone costs $246-281 to make, analyst claims | Reg Hardware
Interesting that they can have such good margins.
(tags: iphone apple)

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