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fun with rendezvous

One of the innovative features in Mac OS X is support for DNS-SD, a.k.a. rendezvous. I was reading about the Java API for this by apple on onJava. Then I wondered if there was a pure Java implementation, because I dislike using native stuff in Java (complicates deployment).
That’s why I like google: “+rendezvous apple pure [...]

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wlan gone paranoid

My new PC has a smc wlan pci card. It seems to work very nicely with none of the problems my previous siemens usb stick had. However, I appear to be not connected, currently. Which is strange since I seem to have no problem browsing the web, downloading stuff, etc. But the windows wireless icon [...]

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New PC & moving itunes library

Whoohoo! My new hardware has arrived, last week. I’ve been busy playing with it so that explains the small delay in posting.
Right now I am still going through the tedious procedure of getting everything the way I want it. I have a local network so I can access my old PC. However, dragging my external [...]

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Howto start jEdit

At work I am (in)famous for being responsible for getting jEdit onto everybodies desktop. Despite this everyone uses textpad :-/. These primitive souls are perfectly happy (or ignorant?) not using syntax highlighting, not having their xml validated, not being able to search and replace using regexs, not being able to indent their xml files, not [...]

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In search of the One True Layout

A few weeks back when I re-launched my blog in wordpress, I made a few comments about not being interested in working around the many specification and implementation bugs of CSS and make a really nice, spiffy layout for my blog. That’s why you are looking at the (pretty) default template of wordpress.
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The coming paradigm shift in TV broadcasting

The coming paradigm shift in TV broadcasting
The coming paradigm shift in TV broadcasting
This article comments on Apple’s latest move to offer video content through their iTunes and how this is a logical and inevitable move with some far ranging effects.
In this blog post I abstract from this and apply it to the whole telecommunications, media [...]

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