Archive for 2004
Stinkin’ viruses
In the last 5 days I have received 6 virus emails! (Update: 15 emails and counting!)
I don’t use Outlook at home, and I use Linux at work, so it wouldn’t bother me at all. Futhermore, our mailserver runs F-Prot Antivirus on all incoming mail, but still… it’s pretty annoying!
I’ve been connected
Starting today I’ve finally got ADSL at home.
Thanks to the TU Delft and Infopact, who provided me with a free 1024 / 512 kbps connection!
I’ve got it all set up, connected the wires and splitter and stuff. It’s a bit tricky at our place, because we have a home switchboard (for 1 external and 4 internal phone lines) and separate lines for the modems (because the “ancient” switchboard cannot handle the modem signals). So I have placed the splitter before the switchboard, and used the separate modem line for the ADSL signal. The one cable going to the second floor has two wires for one of the internal phone lines and two wires for the ADSL line.
The laptop that I bought
The ASUS M6000N.
I finally did it! I’ve bought a laptop!
This morning I ordered the ASUS M6000N with
- Intel Centrino 1.6 GHz processor
- 1 x 512 MB 333 MHz DDR SDRAM
- 60 GB 7200 rpm 2.5″ UDMA 100 HDD
- ATI M10 (Mobility Radeon 9600) 64 MB DDR
- 15.1″ SXGA+ (1400 x 1050)
- 5.25″ ATAPI 24X/24X/8X/24X DVD/CDRW combo drive
- on-board 10/100/1000 Mbps Fast Ethernet controller
- integrated 802.11 b/g module
- … and much more!
at De Laptopper.
I’ll keep you informed..
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
In the category “Remarkable News” today, this item found on the Dutch teletext:
Astronomers have found a diamond in the sky. It’s actually a star (a white dwarf) that died a couple billion years ago, in the constellation Centaurus, 50 light years from the Earth. The core of the star collapsed and the carbon crystallised due to the huge pressure.
The diamond is half the size of our moon, and weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats!
A press release by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics can be found here.
Skiing trip
Last Saturday I returned from my skiing holiday. With a couple of friends I went to Oz-en-Oisans, near Alpe d’Huez, only a few kilometers from where my girlfriend and I stayed this summer.
It was great fun, and very nice to see what it looks like in winter. I’ve been to the same places and have taken photographs on the same spots as I did then.
Unfortunately, the weather hasn’t been very good all the time, we had a couple of snow storms, but luckily also a few very beautiful days.
On Tuesday we celebrated my birthday with a very nice dinner in a restaurant in Les Deux Alpes.
Update: The photos are available on my photo gallery.
DO NOT click that link!
Microsoft has published a great “solution” , or better a work-around, for a bug in IE: Don’t click on links! Just type them in manually!
Because they are too stupid to show the correct address in the address bar (and status bar), you might be on a different site than you would expect. Therefore, you should just type the address yourself, so that you are certain where you’re going…
Click for example this link. If you only see http://www.microsoft.com in the address bar after clicking, it’s time to start using a real browser, such as Mozilla, instead of the crap you’re using now!
(Source tweakers.net.)
LOTR: ROTK
It took me a month this time, but yesterday I finally went to see The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The journey has ended.
Wow! What a great movie!
The story by Tolkien is fabulous, of course, with everything he created around it: the maps, the languages (with pronounciation!), the family trees, et cetera. But Peter Jackson also did a fantastic job, directing the movies, and keeping very close to the original story (as far as I can see).
Happy New Year
A very happy New Year to all of you!
I know, I know, I’m a few days late, but I’ve hardly been online in the past two weeks!
My girlfriend and I went to Lyon for a few days, just before Christmas. She has worked there for almost a year, about 8 years ago, so it’s like a second home town to her.
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