A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Finally learning to write decent C with Posix threads, processes, pipes, inter-process communication etc. And some Java with threads too. Quite interesting I have to say, but that may be the influence of the large glass of whisky I consumed this evening; I really love late night hacking/irc'ing/music …
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After capitalizing the title right [I hope], I wanted to share a little anecdote with you. A guy of the same year of my Computer Science study has a traineeship where he's profiling a large information system. He could choose between writing his application in Java or .NET with C …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
So here I am, sitting in the cafetaria of my university [next to a dude with a 17" Powerbook], eating my way through a free 45 minutes. I decided some weeks ago to stop working 2 days per week [they asked me if it was possible for me to even …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Gotta love public transport running windows...
The contact-less system for checking in/out of the trams and subways. Out of order, as you can read. In French...
The electronical ticket machine, for charging your chip based public transport pass:
Same machine, close up [gotta love their internationalization]:
Same machine, some …
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As I'm upgrading my pc from a 750MHz AMD Duron with 448MiB of RAM to 2x AMD Athlon MP2000+ with 4GiB of memory, I kinda need a new computer casing. After getting a nice little cardreader in a stand, which is colored black/silver, and having a black/silver laptop …
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As some may have noticed, the aquariusoft.org site has been overhauled in the last weeks. It's now based on the Qik site framework I wrote from scratch. Today, I released a first snapshot to the public. There's a small HOWTO included, but the project page itself already contains a …
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And that was my 24th year of making my way on this wicked piece of molten lava floating through vacuum. Of course the only "space" I'm really confident with is cyberspace, but that's where we have starship Earth for. On to the quarter of a century!
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
For those following and/or using the overload feedreader: the reader has enclosure support now! Enclosures are references to files in the feed itself. Mostly used by "podcasts" etc, so you can download the audio file straight from the reader. Also, the Rocketboom videolog uses it [right click, download .mov …
