Why should you blog? Read this article, and you never have to be in doubt again. Don’t stop blogging, don’t write what others like to read, just express yourselves!
Thanks Perry, for the link.
Jun 162004
Jun 152004
Tonight is football night. We play in the EC against Germany. Personally I don’t give a f-word, but like Suredeath blogs (in Dutch) says, it seems that non-football-lovers/football-haters are left in the cold. You can talk to nobody if you want to avoid the subject of football, you can’t watch tv since either the schedules have been modified to give you football, or the commercial surrounding the regular schedules are about football. And going to the pub is a big no-no as well, since most of them have installed big TV-screens so you can all watch “the game”. Hey, what about a beer and some nice chit-chatting about the wheather or about that ugly person just walking by?
I was going to do some gardening this evening, but the wheather is changing at the moment. An hour ago it was reasonably sunny with some clouds, now its half-dark, overcast and I can already see some rain falling. I guess I’m confined to being behind the computer this evening. What a punishment.
Jun 102004
As you can read in this BDN article, the bug in the Delphi 7.1 update has been fixed.
Jun 092004
There is a way to run D8 generated applications within the Mono platform. Andreas Hausladen made a solution, and Dan Miser blogs about it.
Jun 082004
The Microsoft .NET magazine for Developers #5 (what a great title for a Dutch magazine!) has an article about Delphi 8 for .NET, written by Bob Swart. As one can expect from Bob, the article is clean, without prejudice and after reading it you can only think: why don’t I have a copy yet?! 😉
No link to the article, since the magazine is not an e-zine, but an old-fashioned paperstyle magazine.
Jun 082004
Pfffff….back to “normal” operation again. In trying to get back to the right combination of settings, I only made things worse: Windows did not start at all anymore. Jikes! I started from the Windows XP disk, went for “Logon to exisiting installation” and saw that Windows reversed the drive letters of the IDE partitions: I was F and F was I. So….back to the BIOS, enable one of the two drives, and yes, there she blows was again. Reboot and enabled the other drive again, and now things are back to normal. WITH the annoying S.M.A.R.T. error message.
I must tell you: seeing messages like “NTLDR not found”, “Invalid system disk”, “Press any key to reboot” or just a blank screen when you expect the Windows XP login screen is as scary as it gets.
Jun 082004
Because one of my drive reports via S.M.A.R.T. that a failure is imminent, I decided to turn of SMART. But, this Asus bios is not tricked easy: even with SMART off, it reports the error. So, I decided to switch of the IDE channel in the BIOS because my boot-device is a SCSI disk (IDE only used for storage). Windows booted fine, without the error.
But…you guessed it, Windows talked to the drive in PIO mode, no DMA at all. WTF? Back to the bios, let’s get the error and the speed back. Hey, there’s the error, but where’s Windows?
After several tries, reboots, settings, I can now only use my system with the IDE controller switched of in the BIOS, therefore the speed of this machine dramatically drops when I use the IDE disk.
Can someone explain this to me?
Jun 072004
This weekend was a weekend of gardening. Or should I say “creating the garden”? The garden behind our house was nothing more than a lot of sand and some tiles in front of the door to clean your shoes before entering the house…
Friday we basically paved the garden and we layed the electricity cables for the garden lighting. Saturday we bought some plants and some enhanced ground and some wooden poles for a pergola(?). Yesterday we planted the herbs and the other stuff and I finished the electricity. Just to test it, I hooked up one of the lights we bought, and it looks great.
I gotta tell you, this is hard work. Typing on a computer, or using a mouse is a little different from lifting 30kg tiles, walking around with wheelbarrow filled to the brim and being on your knees for the greater part of the day. My respect for people that do this kind of work for a living!
Jun 022004
Wow. Mono beta 2 has been released yesterday. The release notes describe what has changed since beta 1 and on the download page you can get the software.
