Author Archives: joachim

Lost In Translation

Posted on January 12, 2004 by joachim

I’ll keep up with my good habits and write just one quote of the movie that is mentioned in the subject: “For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.” By the way, it was a great movie, but unfortunately, I was … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 2, 2004 by joachim

I wish everyone a happy new year! On new year’s eve, I went to watch the fireworks and caught a big cold. It is one more time I am sick during holidays, I hate that.

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Posted on December 26, 2003 by joachim

As I wrote before, my semester thesis involves some work regarding .NET, so I managed to get a PC. It’s a Pentium 3 at 800 MHz only, but it seems pretty fast. I should do some speed tests to compare … Continue reading →

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Look-alike contest

Posted on December 14, 2003 by joachim

In the beginning there were a lot of different web browsers for Mac OS X. In fact, there were 6 or 7 browsers using 5 different rendering engines. Then, in january 2003 came Apple’s Safari Browser. Up to now, 2 … Continue reading →

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Anything else

Posted on December 9, 2003 by joachim

I’ll just say that … Even a broken watch is right twice a day 🙂

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Microsoft QA

Posted on December 7, 2003 by joachim

Two weeks ago, I installed Windows 2000 on my iBook using Virtual PC. Everything went fine until I wanted to use Windows update. There were plenty of updates ready to install when a dialog with the license agreement appeared and … Continue reading →

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Mono on OS X?

Posted on December 5, 2003 by joachim

Why did I install DotGNU instead of Mono? Well, I took a quick glimpse at the Mono project website and didn’t find any information of Mono running on Mac OS X. But it turned out it does run on OS … Continue reading →

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DotGNU

Posted on December 4, 2003 by joachim

Some days ago I installed DotGNU on my PowerMac G4. There was no binary installer, but all the packages complied without any problems! DotGNU is a free implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework. It’s not complete yet, but some of the … Continue reading →

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How to crash Safari 1.1.1

Posted on December 4, 2003 by joachim

You can make Safari 1.1.1 crash by doing the following: Open texturizer.net/firebird Scroll down and click on ‘Classic’ That’s it. I hope this bug will be fixed soon.

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iBook G4

Posted on November 20, 2003 by joachim

I sold my old 600 MHz G3 iBook and bought a new G4 powered one. The speed difference is huge. Finally, I have a Mac capable of using Quarz Extreme. Especially when using Exposé, you realize which kind of power … Continue reading →

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