Happy 2010

Get to know your brand new year a little bit better:

• also known as MMX,
• or MMDCCLXIII (2763) if we were still using the Julian calendar,
• 5770 in the Jewish calendar,
• 1431 in the Islamic calendar,
• 4706 in the Chinese calendar,
• 2010 is an even number,
• Can be represented as 2¹¹ – 38,
• 2010 divides 29⁶-1,
• 11111011010₂ in binary,
• 2 x 3 x 5 x 67 = 2010,
• finally, 2010 is not a leap year.

Windows 7

It’s only got a 8600 GTS (I hate fans), hence 6.5 WEI

Consistent Confusion

 

Why is it that Citrix changes the name of their client, each time they up the version number?

v 11 - Citrix Online Plugin

v 10 – Xenapp Client

v 9 - Presentation Server Client

It’s better than the old one

Third time’s a charm

The UI guys though this up by accident

This is a Microsoft Ad?

Sort you photos fast!

Google just added Face Recognition to Picasa Desktop.

download away…

20 July 1969

Yet South Africa is not on the list?

New facebook URL

Check out my facebook page at www.facebook.com/jan.rademan

This is the biggest joke of the year!

The European commission is forcing Microsoft to ship Windows without a browser.

While OEMs will have access to a free "IE8 pack" that allows them to add the browser back in, consumers who purchase retail copies will not have a browser that they can use to download a browser. Therefore, Microsoft will offer IE8 via CD, FTP, and retail channels. It looks like Mozilla, Opera, Google, and Apple will have to do the same if they want European Windows 7 adopters to have access to their browsers.

This is the stupidest thing ever. You had to install a browser in Windows from a CD more than 15 years ago.

Ridiculous.

some math today

2⁵ = 32

thirty two

XXXII

100000₂

When Worlds Collide

only underlines the fact I saw both Magnum P.I. and MacGuyver before I ever set eyes on Star Wars…

Incidentally, there’s a new Star Wars tv series in the works for next year.

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In case you don’t care about Soccer

This is just wrong

Public Shared Function ApplyPhoneNumberFormatting(ByVal phoneNumber As String) As String
        Dim cleanPhoneNumber As String
        Dim formattedPhoneNumber As New System.Text.StringBuilder
        Dim i As Integer

                If phoneNumber Is Nothing Then
                        Return String.Empty
                End If

        cleanPhoneNumber = StripNonNumericCharacters(phoneNumber)

        If cleanPhoneNumber.Length = 0 Then
            Return String.Empty
        Else

            For i = 0 To 12

                Select Case i
                    Case 0
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append("(")
                    Case 1
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(0))
                    Case 2
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(1))
                    Case 3
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(2))
                    Case 4
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(") ")
                    Case 5
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(3))
                    Case 6
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(4))
                    Case 7
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(5))
                    Case 8
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append("-")
                    Case 9
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(6))
                    Case 10
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(7))
                    Case 11
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(8))
                    Case 12
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(9))

                End Select

            Next

            Return formattedPhoneNumber.ToString

        End If

    End Function

more here.

Since we are in Star Trek mood

What would have happened if Seattle was the Federation HQ instead?

Attack of the Kingons (sic)

Please pity the webserver

 

On Tuesday, May 5 (PST), the RC will be available to everyone via our Customer Preview Program. As with the Beta, the Windows 7 RC Customer Preview Program is a broad public program that offers the RC free to anyone who wants to download it. It will be available at least through June 30, 2009, with no limits on the number of downloads or product keys available.

So you don’t need rush to make sure you get your copy. When you’re ready to download the RC, it’ll be waiting for you.

translation:

Please don’t kill our webservers! We know you want it, but take pity on our hosting staff. Please.

Speed investigation

 

Openweb, with 768 kbps down, 416 kbps up

Openweb, with 2400 kbps down, 512 kbps up

M-Web. with 768 kbps down, 416kbps up

M-Web. with 2400 kbps down, 512 kbps up

Vista SP2 on the way

Crap, just when i figured out how to slipstream SP1, SP2 is released…

 

Luckily i haven’t burned the ISO yet.

Windows Live Photo Gallery Now supports face recognition

Just found out that the latest version of Windows Live Photo Gallery now also supports face recognition. No need to buy a Mac now for iPhoto….

YubiKey

Just got my two Yubikey’s*.

 

Time for some authentication experimentation…

*"The coolest authentication hardware device ever."
Steve Gibson, Security Now!

OK, Change of plan

The public Windows 7 Beta will be available until 10 February 2009

2 days left

Only two days left so get your Windows 7 product key.

Hurry up.

PS, Windows Vista SP2 may be slightly delayed.