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My PC acted really strange just a couple of minutes ago. It could not find a disk which I’m sure was mounted, it did not start Thunderbird, and some moments later did not start anything anymore. The CD drive was blinking and suddenly the screen went black and the system turned itself off. Not sure what happened, I just flipped the switch. The system started with the BIOS-setup screen, saying there was something wrong and I needed to check the powersettings. In that screen, I can also see my system’s health. When looking at the red figures, I could hardly believe my eyes. CPU temp was 78 degrees Celsius! To hot to handle!
Immediately I powered off the system, opened the casing to let the VERY hot air out. Now it’s running steadily again, but for the moment with an open casing. The fans are really dirty. They look grey and fluffy from the dust that’s on it. They should be black and shiny!

To be continued….

Not exactly what you call a scoop-posting, but today I discovered Last.fm. Great. Even better than an MP3-player: no matter how big the storage, I always want to listen to something not on it. Now I can just skip to another channel. Fabulous. Anybody has headphone recommendations? It should fit in a laptop-backpack.

Here’s my page.

Last Friday the final work was done in the kitchen. So we thought beforehand. We are still missing several wall-sockets, but the best part: no hood. The company delivered a hood, but when the guys wanted to install it, they noticed it was the wrong type. We ordered a recirculation-type, but this one does not have any holes to recirculate the air since it expects the air to be blown into some pipes that transport the air outside. So for the moment we need to open a window when we are cooking, until they install the new hood. Fortunately we did not have the kitchen installed in wintertime!

Apart from the above, we are very happy with the kitchen. It’s big, but very comfortable and it really feels like “our” kitchen. I will update this post when I have uploaded new pictures to the gallery.

We have sold our “old” kitchen and the new kitchen is being build. You can follow the progress on this gallery. The work consists of three stages or parts, whatever you like to call it. The long side of the kitchen, the island, and the removal of the marks the old kitchen left. Part one is half done now, as you can see. It still lacks the ovens, the dishwasher and the sink. The wooden frame around the left side will be painted. Shiny, probably Chinese Red, or something along that line.

In case you are interested, the kitchen is made by the Italian design brand Schiffini. We have the Cinqueterre type, the standard aluminum version (since this year they also have a black-coated aluminum version).

Some companies call it “early access”, others “pre-release”, or even “milestones”, but Oracle likes to call it Technology Preview. Not a beta yet, but very usable.

Oracle released JDeveloper 11g – Technology Preview. So it’s not the real thing yet.

It’s JEE 5 compatible, has a ton of new features, and is also faster to boot.

Personally I don’t like what they did to the property inspector, or the introduction of harmonicas in toolbars for that matter. Apart from some fancy try-outs, the GUI did not change.

The rest of it I still got to try. There is still on visual aid when designing Swing like the Matisse designer has.

More info about JDeveloper 11g here.