Category Archives: Computers

Emulation as something new

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Anders K. Madsen

Politiken has an article about how the EU wants to develop an emulator — KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable — in order to preserve video game history. (Original article in danish; Google translation.) According to the project description it should … Continue reading →

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“Is this also the internet?”

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Steffen

Just overheard this. And I must admit, I adore such blankness. P1 and P2 is two people talking in front of a computer. P1: It this also the internet? P2: Yes. P1: I always go down there (pointing to some … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3 (on OS X) — Special Characters Bug

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Anders K. Madsen

During my recent contact with an English company, I’ve had to use the pound sign (£) a lot, which has uncovered a bug in Firefox 3 — at least I think it is… Using the danish keyboard layout the pound … Continue reading →

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MSN Messenger Sucks Even More

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Anders K. Madsen

It’s around 9 months since it was discovered that MSN had implemented some pretty retarded keyword blocking rules on messages sent through MSN Messenger (aka. Live Messenger; not the client, the protocol). Now — according to Slashdot — they’ve added … Continue reading →

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iconv — change text encoding of a file

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Steffen

I just saw this on the DK-TUG mail list. I seam to be the tool I’ve been wanting for years but been to slack to find. “Slack” since i couldn’t imagine that such tool should not exist. It’s ‘iconv‘ [0] … Continue reading →

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