Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 21st, 2008
The not yet released Lenovo Thinkpad X300 seems to be a worthy competitor to the Apple Macbook Air, but with more features than the Air and with Solid State Drive (SSD) as the only storage option makes it smell even more expensive.
It has been a bit too little about software ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
After my struggle to install Flash I finally managed to run F-Secure Health Check on the only computer running Windows in the house, my gaming computer with with 512 megabytes of RAM and only 40 gigabytes hard disk drive. It is almost ancient by today's standards and I had old ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Read more at MySQL.com and Sun.com. Good it's not Oracle.
Oracle, on the other hand, managed to buy BEA.
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
So far, this week has been a week of XSLT hacking. My favorite is probably the XSLT script that generates another XSLT script! :-)
At one point I wanted to copy the default namespace (xmlns=...) from the source document to the destination document.
I did like this to retrieve the URI for ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I'm writing this on the bus on my way back home from work. The handwriting recognition on my Nokia 770 takes some getting used to but works quite alright. I'm thinking of buying a Nokia N810 but I'm not so sure.
Starting from this sentence I'm writing from the comfort of ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
While working on creating an Atom feed from a web page I got the idea to create a proxy that takes an audio stream in Real Player format over RTSP/RTP/RDP and converts it to MP3 over HTTP. It should actually not be harder than to use mplayer to "play" the ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Most of my time at the computer yesterday was spent working on an unofficial syndication of the broadcast archive for the Swedish radio show P3 Rytm. It's actually quite simple... :-)
Use curl to download the web page broadcast archive for the show
Use iconv to convert the page to UTF-8
Use ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Yesterday I wanted to run the excellent F-Secure Health Check web application on my gaming computer. The health check only runs in Internet Explorer, but I don't use IE if I can avoid it and apparently I had no Flash Player working with Internet Explorer 7. When I tried ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
The Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard looks much better than the Nokia Wireless Keyboard SU-8W I got for my Nokia 770 but never use! If it works I could actually do some blogging to or from work, now when they have wireless Internet on the bus. I will also need ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Zed Shaw rants quite a bit, stating that Rails Is A Ghetto. Most things I read about RoR are good things, and I guess that some of it is written by the people that Zed grumbles at. It is quite refreshing to hear other opinions, even if they might not ...
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