matt’s

I have moved my blog to a new place; the new address is http://www.digitalbreed.com. Please update your bookmarks. All requests to the old URL should be forwarded over here. I have also added all book reviews I wrote so far, installed a gallery which is yet to be filled, and added a tutorials section which [...]

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Na, das nenne ich mal ein nettes Geburtstagsgeschenk. Die Pokes haben Hurrican released. Aber seht selbst:
http://www.hurrican-game.de/
Danke auch für den freundlichen Seitenhieb auf poke53280.de — wir geben Martin noch den Vorzug und releasen dann 2012 als letzte! So, und jetzt geh ich es mal anspielen.
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Did you ever think about why your mouse pointer becomes a hand if you hover a link but not if you hover a
? I don’t get the difference.
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Fellow #gamedev.ger channel resident Tim-Oliver “The_Fallen” Husser is currently residing in Cape Town, South Africa and has started a blog. I’m feeling the desperate need of a holiday when I look at the pictures…
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I just read a forum thread where someone complained that some MSDN pages don’t work with Firefox anymore. I checked this with FF 2.0 and can confirm that I cannot get the subsections e.g. on this page to open up by clicking on the cross symbol. This is really unfortunate, as I use Firefox as [...]

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Today, I found two things amazing. And the best is, you can watch the first thing while you download the second thing.
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I’m going to order new hardware soon (I can’t wait because the old board has occasional dropouts…). This is my current list:

AMD Athlon X2 4000+ processor
Seasonic S12 430 power supply unit
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe AM2 mainboard
Crucial 2GB DDR2-800 Kit
250GB Samsung SP2405C SATAII harddisk
Asus EN7600GT Silent 256MB graphics card

I’ll take the rest (like more harddisks, case etc.) [...]

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I’ve just decided to publish the link to this (rarely used) blog in my developia.de forum signature, so I need to write something, right? Great news this time! Our sechsta sinn Easter meeting is about to happen! We didn’t manage to get together on time this year, but we will catch up on Thursday 4th [...]

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After years on a 60Hz CRT at 1600×1200, I decided to get a 20″ TFT. It’s a Samsung SyncMaster 204B which is one of the cheaper models on the market, but it turned out to be a real bargain and I am really satisfied with it.

I like the pivot function. Although it is unfamiliar for [...]

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GDR, the German Democratic Republic, or DDR, as we said in German, is back!

Seen on Redhat.com.
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Microsoft now requires its Windows users to prove their right to download updates by verifying the serial number and the activation status. Within 24 hours, this check was passed over, as BoingBoing reports. But it looks to me like this one is very easy to fix for MS, maybe it’s even a debug flag which [...]

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The Register posted an update on the mysterious Apple disappearance. Apple is there! ;-)
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Via Wonderland: Watch Me Change. Go and dress her/him up and see what’s happening!
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Now that Microsofts Map service MSN Virtual Earth turned into a public beta, mattin pointed out something funny. Compare Apples company address on Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth - seems like MS wiped out Apple! ;-)
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NetCologne, my local ISP, did it again and doubled the DSL rate from 2 MBit to 4 MBit for no fee! Ain’t that great? Okay, I don’t bother about the downstream, but it’s nice to have some more upstream available now. Mainly, because I need to upload our DVW test versions from time to time, [...]

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I’m sure it’s an old hat for the most of you, but I read about this for the first time and found it unacceptable (and I can’t believe I really overlooked this when I agreed to the terms of service).
From the ICQ Terms Of Service:
You agree that by posting any material or information anywhere on [...]

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I am currently working on a review of Diomidis Spinellis’ book “Code Reading - The Open Source Perspective”. I found a nice quote at the beginning of chapter five, “Advanced Control Flow”:
“It is necessary for technical reasons that these warheads be stored upside down, that is, with the top at the bottom and the bottom [...]

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Microsoft has declared Mozilla Firefox a “very high risk threat”. So, that’s how they deal with competitors. I must admit that I cannot rate the reliability of the image source, but I’m quite sure that this is real. If it’s not, it’s good for a laugh anyway.

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MTBF is “Mean Time Between Failures”, and a recent article will lead to a slight increase of the C64’s MTBF. It states that on old C64 was responsible for the electronic displays on the main station of Dortmund, and it lately quit its service after 20 years. The funny thing is that they need to [...]

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Someone on IRC postet this link. Although the 3rd Reich is a tragic chapter of our German history, I found it funny that IMDB has included Hitler in their database. I wish he would just have played act …
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