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Today was a special day. It would have been my dad's 77th birthday. He didn't even live to celebrate his 70th. As a technical engineer, specialized in thin layers, he worked for Philips. His first main project concerned the inner coating of CRT tubes...
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Working all day with screen, keyboard and mouse is quite a stress to some parts of your body. Over the years, getting old, you have to pay the toll. Sore wrists and tired eyes can become side-effects of your hard work. So far I'm surviving quite well...
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In the Dutch city of Groningen is the Mediacentrale : It's a former power plant which has been transformed into a centre for multimedia and other IT business. March 16th, it was stage for Amigro , a 1 day conference on ambient intelligence .(Google for...
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Friends of mine fried their Dell family box. The fan outlet had been blocked to long so the poor thing died. They carted in a new one; the new models seem to anticipate on overheating, as they have a very cool air inlet on the front side as well. Anyway...
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My company (which is just me ) has a web site which really needs a big refresh. At the moment it is a static bunch of html on a Unix box. I want a lot more and taking a look at the wish-list there is only one way to get that all done without spending...
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Everything is going digital over the last couple of years. Which revolutionizes the way we work with information. But digital is not a substitute for everything. Take digital photography. The number of mega-pixels of the camera (in your phone) is rising...
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Today was the final of the RoboChallenge where robots compete on the ability to find and catch differnent colored balls. Amongst others the event is sponsored by Microsoft: .NET was used amongst the platforms used for the robot software. Amongst others...
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For quite some time I am a very content user of an external Maxtor USB drive . This week it was joined a Maxtor " shared storage drive ". With a price of an euro a gigabyte I couldn't leave it on the shelf. The maxtor site, the documentation and the utilities...
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Going to the Cebit ICT trade fair was a day well spent. Visited the show on a trip organized by Groniningen ICT with ICT people from my part of the country. Hannover is a 4 hour bus ride which flies away with good company. The fair itself is an ocean...
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A computer can be noisy, most of the average desktops are not that far from a vacuum cleaner sitting on your desk. The main reason for the noise are the fans to get away all the heat generated. As Trubadour demonstrated this heat is enough to fry an egg...
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Recently I had been playing with a small external Wacom Volito tablet . I wasn't too pleased with it, mainly because its build was too sloppy. As it's rubber feet were slipping away all the time it wasn't possible to use it with any accuracy. On the Windows...
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As a response to a post by Kimberly Trip Sahil questioned the usablity of a widescreen monitor. Darell suggest working with a dual monitor is a better alternative. Untill recently I did the latter, untill I got myself a 1920*1200 screen. First I still...
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On the Windows Anywhere conference I met a guy who had a Sony U750 on which he had installed XP tablet pc edition 2005. A machine which makes all other tablets huge bulky beasts. Officially Sony does not support this, they are far more in proprietary...
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