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Financial markets
Lately I’ve been reading about financial markets in general and equity markets specifically. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve certainly picked up some things. What surprised me is how “distant” some elements of these markets are from reality. For example: stock is easy to understand – you get part of the ownership of…
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A cuddly little penguin
Most probably a Fiordland Penguin:
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Clearly labelling your products
We’ve just bought a small digital camera and it came with two AA batteries. I was wandering if they were rechargeable. The text on them wasn’t really that clear, it said something like “may explode if recharged inserted improperly”, which left me wondering: do they mean “inserted improperly in the charger” or is a comma…
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Mixed links
Seen on Ars Technica: Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows?. This is an other reason for using software where the complete source is available to you. It is incredible that something which is rather straight forward from a technical point of view should create such legal problems. Via the GSD blog: Flash Player 10: Dazzling…
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“Updated” UAC
Via the Grand Stream Dreams blog: Symantec seems to came out with an “updated” version of UAC. My opinion? In the short term solutions like this are effective for at least two reasons: (a) they are to particular for “bad guys” to care about (why should they but effort into something which is used by…
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Great comics
From XKCD (so true :-)): From Fifth Wave (I know a couple of people like this ;-)):
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Changing the NTP server under Windows
Disclaimer: I’m not a Sysadmin and I’m especially not a Windows/Active Directory sysadmin. From what I’ve know, there is some overlap between this and the AD stuff (in the sense that the DC also provides time info AFAIK, so please also check that possibility if it applies). As always, feedback is welcome. Setting up NTP…
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Solving the “DLL failed to initialize” problem with Wine
Recently Wine was refusing to start any Windows program. When I dropped down to a (gnome-)terminal and tried to launch executables the “manual” way (by typing wine [executable name]), an error message similar to this was presented: fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION err:module:LdrInitializeThunk “RPCRT4.dll” failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”…” failed, status c0000005…
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The cost of freeware
I saw this link on the anti-virus rants blog: Catalyst Conversation Starter: The High Cost of “Freeware”. Given that I’ve just posted two tutorials on how to install and configure free (for home use), I wanted to share my experience: One of the products the paper specifically mentions is AVG. I’ve been recommending, installing an…
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Gone Fishing
See you soon.