March 26, 2008
Input remapper
Alright, in the journey towards a life living with both OSX and XP operating systems on a MacBook Pro, I will post my findings here.
The first one is that the keyboard layout of the Mac doesnt have all the PC functions, and is set towards a OSX use, and one of Mac's coolest features is the backlight of the keyboard, and the backlight of the apple logo on the back.
The input remapper ive found does both of the above for your XP install.
This tool lets you configure input bindings to add some PC functions to your Mac layout, plus it ads the backlight to come up when its getting darker around you :)
(could only find pic of black macbook showing backlight)
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January 6, 2008
DRM dead
Yay, lets start the new year with death, the one from the "good riddance" kind! Sony BMG plans to drop DRM, to be the last major company that was still holding on to the technology to protect.. yeah.. to protect what!?..lol prolly to protect the high profit margin, thats all it was doing.. pff killing every other opportunity for the artist I still believe. Finally they understand, "The customer is always right!"
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February 19, 2007
Fantom goes TopShots
Good move from the Bosley's! YAY
http://www.iseekgolf.com/news/11221
Well done guys!
I probably wont be able to reach you this week on the phone, having your cell # exposed to millions of golf fanatics :)
Good luck mate!
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January 22, 2007
Bush fire
Its high summer in Australia, and today it was around 39 - 41 degrees, a very hot day.
These days trigger bush fires, and normally you see it on the news and sometimes you can see the glow in the far distance, or you have the smoke and smell from far.
|- taken from our backyard
Today we have a bush fire just opposite of our valley, and thats a little bit to close for me if I may say so.
|- fire chopper flying over backyard
The last daylight hours of today was a noisy one with fire trucks coming past and choppers flying over. Dunne if the famous Elvis was involved but our local park was host for all choppers and trucks, and when I passed I could see the big fire chopper that was flying over our house during daylight parked.
|- elvis?? - nearby park - FYI on the far left is a full size truck, just to show how big that chopper is
So far there was no need to worry, according to the news.. and I dont see to many people panic, so thats ok.. i think.
Ally went with Justin (Nephew) out to have a little look closer today, and took this picture:
|- taken as close as Ally could come to the fire
Still from the backyard you can see the glow on the other side, and they hope its under control by the morning as then they expect the wind to change.
|- taken from our backyard
Any way again, the way its in the news and the way people around are taking it, it should be ok! :)
****UDATE**** (23-01-07)
They had to close the freeway one more time due to too much smoke and too close to the fire, and after that they got it complete under control.
It has been a constant chopper flying over and you can smell the burning almost everywhere.
The wind was the biggest problem, but the good thing was they expected rain on Wednesday and like al weather predictions go wrong, it came luckily early.
So finally it’s cooling down and some extra aid for all the fire fighters.
Amazingly how everything took place so calmly.. very good stuff!
A cheer for the fire fighters! HOOYAH !!
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September 8, 2006
DM vs Paris Hilton
Now this is a gr8 joke..
Danger Mouse (Producer of Gorillaz and Gnarls Barkley ao).
replaced 500 copies of Paris Hiltons "Horrible" CD with his remixes and on her cover created offensive artwork and text
:P
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Gaslog
They’ve got a couple of ways to retrieve the data, by radio transmitter that is hooked up to another device on the phone line, and today I've attended a meeting that showed a great new and flexible technologie to send the data across.
They've developed everything themselves and the products are used all over the world.
My dear friend Wayne (Vision golf balls) told one of our basketball team members what I've done for logoballs.com.au (tnx buddy), and so "Tony" who i've been playing basketball with now for the second season, invited me to his company to see if I can do some work for them.
They have made a program (gaslog) that harvests all the data, and pushes all the info and options forward onto the screen.
And now they are developing a web based version of some services they have for the costumers.
The last couple of days I’ve worked hard to give theirs in asp.net written web application some fresh new looks.
Today I did my presentation on my work, and its an all a "go forward deal".
They are going to use my User Interface (UI) idea for the application. YEAH!
I'm am first off all, most proud to work with these people as they are very knowledgeable and interesting people (all engineers), and also that my work is going to be published onto a great program that will be distributed all over the world.
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September 5, 2006
Steve Irwin
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August 20, 2006
40 nothing
After saving my ass more then 10 times (all-in), and out playing around 450 people, in 5.5 hours of playing poker... I had to give in.. havent picked up a good hand after first table, playing only on the blinds to survive (pokertalk for hangin in there).. I met my end result, top 40.. no price no nothing..
Gr8 tournament tho, to bad couldnt play a decent hand when i needed to and also going down to a 60 to 40 % hand fav..
Thats poker...next season another chance!
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July 10, 2006
Per Bday
Everyone who reads this.. have a beer/drink on me!
Its my 34th Bday today.. July 10th !
I'm not doing much today with it, as I said in the post before I'll go to my poker night this evening..
we got a family picknic this sunday to celebrate my and justin's and Lisa's bday.. and I know Ally has booked a trip to a secret destination in a few weekends! So thats enough fuzz..
Cheers everyone!
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Fonebiz shit
Guess what after almost 2 months I finally have my w800i replaced, and now I can use my MMR-60! Just to give u a little side story how Fonebiz (shit) repair centre in Brookvale handled this case.. ahum.
My problem was that the w800i worked fine, but just didn’t connect with the MMR-60 radio transmitter.
First everything was possible at fonebiz and the phone would be fixed within a day.
They forgot to look at it, when I came back that day and “Aaron”, the guy that served me said “I put my best engineer on it and he will work on it straight away!”. Those lines always give me the creeps.. anyway, the engineer couldn’t fix the problem by switching some components in the phone and at the very end of the next day fonebiz told me they had to order a new phone for me.. meanwhile they have given me a temporary phone type Brick from year 1963 .. grr.. This was just before Easter, and I thought “ no way” .. Im not going to run around with this piece or crap as temp phone, I want atleast some of my functionality back of my w800i.
The hour before driving off to the mountains for Easter, I went over and decided to pull my phone out of the repair scheme so I could use it for the long weekend, as fonebiz first said they needed my phone in order to get the new one, thought that was silly but hey.. whoami. I asked again if they could launch the request without my phone present, and willing enough fonebiz said “ yea..” sure lets try.
2 Weeks have passed, and I called in again, they said no problems, we are still waiting for your phone, call in later.. 1 week later, I called in again.. same story.
Then a week after that I got a call from “Aaron”, if I could tell them what my provider was so they could order the correct phone!.
”WHUT” !, euhh.. take deep breath, count till 10.. breath out…
“Aaron” I said… in my best forgiving way, you suppost to order the phone way before that, and besides that you know I am provider in depended as I’ve pulled my card out now 4 times before your nose.. also to put it in that “BRICK™” of a lone phone!
“ Yea yea.. sorry sorry.. mix-up here.. we will order the correct phone.. thank you!
At least 2 weeks later,.. I called up again, and asked the status of my phone. Euh… yea.. sorry we need your phone in order to get the new one ! “ *Sigh* “ !
I had almost a book full of lines that I wanted to yell out to him.. but kept my kewl, and did some grumpy huffing and puffin.. told him that he could have figured that one out almost 2 months ago.
Any way.. luckily my buddy Wayne had bought the same phone but hadn’t used it yet.. so he said you can have my phone in the mean time until you new phone arrives, As I was afraid that now I would be out of a decent phone for a while.. and wouldn’t like to walk around with that “BRICK™” from the stone age.
I switched my card to Wayne’s phone, brought the phone in and went home.
Guess what… next day early morning I get a text message saying your phone is ready to be picked up! Grrrrrr….within half a day.. Amazing.. I mean after all that before, I felt like “ could you please give my efforts for replacement etc.. a bit more credit.. and wait a couple of days.. lol.
Any ways I can now listen to my 2gb of MP3’s from my phone on the radio! And got a brand new phone.. (I did gave the brand brand new one to Wayne tho).
The MMR-60 is a very kewl device, the reception to the radio is alright.. I’ve got my antenna in the back of the car and have to put the phone in the middle console to have a clear pick-up.
The sound quality is a bit less but acceptable! The coolest future is that the MMR-60 glows on and off during play.. very nice.
Sorry for being quiet for a little while, being unemployed really is a very busy and time consuming occupation.
And I’v got some more stories like this that I’m gonna write of my chest here.. so beware !
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June 27, 2006
Stuff History
> As campaign from nikefootball here for the socceroos, the old Joga Bonito comes out to taunt the socceroos! Funny TV clips, and as Holland is out for the race.. im more then happy to cheer for the Socceroos, with Guus as coach!
Any way .. like the ad.. Stuff History !
(have a look at the tv ads)
**UPDATE**
Hmmkay.. now talk about a shame, I really start to wonder wat qualifications these refs have... Grrr.. Bring on the video referee.. and let them decide!
What a way togo for the socceroos, they had a very good opportunity to beat Italy here! Unlucky..
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June 26, 2006
tnx NL
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Socceroos
Gosh he's doing it again.. now bringing the Australian Soccerroos through to the next round! Well done.. and must say, the guys really start playing football here, exept the last 10 minutes of the last game was a mess.. i'm guessing that most referee's we wont see again in international matches!
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June 13, 2006
Soccerwho's ?
I do think if you keep playing like this you wont have a squad left for the next round with the way the socceroos play and the cards it accumelates.
Well done,.. I'll keep cheering for u guys too.. till u meet the dutch squad again! :)
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June 9, 2006
Back on track
Pff, it took me a little while to get completely up and running.. but finally scored all the programs I needed, and was using before but now the new versions hey.. lol.
In the mean time did a bit of gardning, well.... I did the easy part, completely remove all tiles and pavers and dig some holes.. plus I managed to get a game of golf in almost every day, so that is progressing very nicely! :)
Allright, next plans.. Im working on a site at the moment that probably will be ready by the end of next week.. its about golf, and will let u know when its finished, im pretty happy with the design I created, and i'm now in the process of filling in the content, pictures etc... I'll show u when its online.
After that, I'm gonna make a site for a golfball brand here in Australia called Vision! Its a new ball and its a very very very kewl thing.. cant wait to start on that one also!
There are more plans going around, but let u know as time comes.
I'm also not very happy that my site doesnt work properly in firefox, I know its a margin thing.. but my tables are so outdated and completely unorganised... and it aint a thing anymore to make style with tables.
The new sites im making are more CSS driven so hopefully I find some time to update and refresh DUIJNUNDER.com, but I want the old style still available for archive purposes and portfolio.
Any way.. back to work! :)
Hup holland hup!
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May 6, 2006
Poker
Yes... I play poker ! and I play Texas Hold'm for a little while now.. and wow.. if I have a little break or I want one, this is the way to do so.. almost half the world is playing this game now, and its so fast.. and its so kewl ...YEAH!
It doesnt have to cost u a dime... really, click on my banner above, and become my affiliate with this, ive got tons of fun money to share with u and from all the poker rooms out there, I must say PokerChamps.com is the best. They have got the best tours at the moment, and they also have almost every hour a freeroll, that makes u play without paying, but if u come close to winning you can win real US $ !!
Ive almost racked up around 55 US $ in just one night of playing... so there are stacks of other tournaments I can join now... and my most fun ones are the Sit 'n Go's, u pay for example one time 2.75 $ and 9 ppl join.. u can rake up around 18 bucks to be #1 or if u land behing 3rd u rake up enough to try agian!
The free rolls are the best way to learn and also the funmoney games ofcourse... pls take this tip from me.. with the free rolls, if u are just starting only play if u have a top 10 hand.. like A-A or A-K or A what ever.,.. till A-Jack..
K-Queen or K-Jack will also work a little bit but be carefull... If u got double KK for instance hit a little bit bigger, to make the contesters amount smaller!
The tours are No Limit games.. which are the most fun game.... but to learn the game, just go for the Pot Limit games so you can learn what hands win in what situations.. just a little example, a straight doesnt often win in a 10 persons game... as most of those games will have a flush..
Just get your poker hands a bit organised here.. POKER LESSONS and learn just to fold often, and bid high when your playing the highest card.. boom your an instant winner like me ! :)
If u play funmoney on pokerchamps, you can recharge 3 x 1000 $ in an hour, which is far more than any other poker site!
Pls enjoy the game and be my affiliate, so we can play together, and I can supply u with some big fun $ !!!
Ive got a nice document if you are interested, which helped me going into the top of most freerolls! Its a blue print how to handle tournaments and it works!!!
Just let me know!
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May 4, 2006
phonebiz
Got a call today from phonebiz, as they are suppost to order me a new w800i so i can use my fm transmitter. The guy from phonebiz asked me what kind of provider I'm using... I said what !@?? Yea so we can order the right phone! I said "Mate (trying to sound aussie here), u already knew I have an provider free phone, as I told you in the beginning.. and after 2 weeks of doing nothing you call me up to say u still have to order the phone! Grrr... This is PhoneBiz Brookvale NSW may I add!
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May 2, 2006
CeBIT
Ally got e-tickets to the Australian CeBIT 2006, thats hosted here in Sydney from
the 9-11th of May!
Looking forward to have a browse...
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April 29, 2006
Koninginnedag
Now that is one of those days I think - *Sigh* I wish ....
Holland will celebrate her queens birthday, altho it aint the official birthday of this queen (Beatrix)... it was the one before that!.. anyway The Netherlands goes completely Orange and totally bezerk!
Even your most descent neighbour dresses up in orange and gets pissed !
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January 23, 2006
ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO DOLLARS
Visiting local RSL with Family..
- Shout couple of drinks ---> 20$
- Having grilled steak menu with chips ---> 12$
- Going on the Pokey's ---> 10 $
- Win Jackpot.. 2X in a row ! ---> PRICELESS !!
Not bad for 10 minutes work hey.. dont worry I won't be a full time Pokey's player!, those machines here in Australia really dont appeal to me..
The fun part was after putting 10$ in to c how it works, I raised the stakes as I was bored and wanted to go.. so spin the wheel.. BANG 60$, so thought hmm.. lets c again.. so did again 20x25 lines and voila 2 x Jackpot.. after each other.. w000t !
Its good to have a cameraphone now hey..Just ordered a 2GB memorycard for my new w800i phone! :)
ps. pretty kewl that Hornsby RSL doesnt pay you out, but writes you a check for everything above $1,000.-, and its interesting standing there waiting for 3 ppl to sign it before they can give it to you.
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November 11, 2005
Sony DRM spyware part 3
Tadaa... it doesn't take long!
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November 10, 2005
Sony DRM spyware part 2
The Italy version of EFF called ALCEI is already preparing a lawsuit against Sony's DRM rootkit scheme.
But now it goes a little step further as the patent holder is filing a lawsuit to all online music stores like Apple, Sony Connect, Real Networks, Napster etc.. who are using the DRM technology, as Ho Keung Tse of Hong Kong strongly believes they are violating his patent.
"The intent of the suit is not to control DRM" or "try and obtain untold riches," said Joseph Zito, a patent attorney for ZITO tlp, the Damascus, Md.-based law firm handling Tse's case. Instead, he says, "Mr. Tse and his company would like a reasonable royalty for what he's come up with and innovated."
Now who's the bad guy now.. lol !
But don't let this all throw sand in your eyes, as previously noted rootkits are bad, very bad.. even more then the crappy coding Sony used, what is an extra open door to abuse.
What can we expect when even more criminal people use the "rootkit" style to infect your machine, or even worse.. when Sony picked this technology up, it must have been floating around for a little while in the dark deep corners of the digital world.. :(
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November 2, 2005
Sony DRM spyware
Whenever you buy and play a Sony BMG's produced copyright protected CD, and you play it with your PC, Sony will freely install a bad coded as in poorly written program on your PC in a commonly used spyware masked way! The unasked and unannounced breach of privacy is recently exposed by Mark Russinovic and widely explained on his blog!
The thing that worries me the most is that normal spyware protection can't pick this up, and any other protection can't detect this.. it was only detected because this programmer, was testing a rootkit revealer! Hmm... this bad, very bad.. in many ways!
Pls read his broad explanation:
Mark Russinovic - Sysinternals:WebLog
Update:
NL - Hier is de nederlandse uitleg
According to F-Secure virus protection it is possible to detect the rootkit! But it would be unwise to delete it as it will cause problems to the system.. yeah right!
People with problems can report them directly to Sony BMG here.
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November 1, 2005
4 Jaar relatie!
Vandaag zijn we 4 jaar bij elkaar! Whoa,.. 2 x de wereld rond geweest en hier in Aussie neergestreken, waar de omgeving van onze ontmoetingsplek geteisterd wordt door aanslagen, Bali - Indonesië.. hou je taai, je bent en blijft een paradijs waar Ally en ik mekaar hebben mogen ontmoeten.. daarvoor onze dank!
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September 9, 2005
Oppassen..
Deze week zijn we aan het oppassen op 2 katten, genaamd Thaj en Benny.. We zijn dus tijdelijk verhuisd, en uiteraard is er geen internet.. Grr!
De katten zijn tof, en er is FOX pay-tv! Dus kan eindelijk wat sport LIVE bekijken enzo. Helaas geen Nederlands elftal voetbal, alleen de uitslagen.
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August 2, 2005
Jos The Boss - Racing For Holland
Zoals eerder op LANtasy.nl forum gepost, ook hier even wat vreugde delen:
HOOYAH!
Al vele weken was ik zeer blij dat Jan Lammers zich vooruit had geschoven om voor Nederland deel te nemen, in deze naar mijn mening super goede F1 clone.
Een F1 clone in zo verre, buiten dat het iet wat lichtere auto's zijn.. maar dat het verlost is van teams met veel geld en teveel politieke en komkommerciële belangen.. ALLE auto's zijn GELIJK !! en een clone in zo verre dat de teams een land vertegenwoordigen en niet een merk.
Dat Jan Lammers dus zich had opgeworpen om voor Nederland te strijden, was dan niet zo verrassend.. aangezien hij al zijn eigen team had genaamd "Racing For Holland". Niet verrassend maar natuurlijk wel super goed! Een man van zijn kaliber is ook echt de aangewezen persoon.
Al weken loop ik af en toe de diverse media af te speuren wie er gaat rijden, stiekum hoopte ik dat Jos Verstappen nog een kansje zou kunnen krijgen om te bewijzen dat hij gewoon echt een hele goede rijder is..
(mocht dit niet zo zijn... dan wordt dit natuurlijk ook hier duidelijk zichtbaar)
Nu is het dan zo ver.. nadat er echt bijzonder weinig geschreven wordt over deze nieuwe top klasse in de autosport.. (bang?) waar ik echt heel veel potentie in zie, en denk dat dit ook heel veel genot gaat geven.. Zie ik vandaag op verstappen.nl dat Jos de Boss dan ook echt uit gaat komen in het team van Jan Lammers, en dus dat Nederland iig vertegenwoordigd gaat worden met nog een zeer ervaren coureur!
F1 heeft nogsteeds mijn interesse, maar keer op keer is het toch irritant om te zien, dat bijvoorbeeld 4 van de auto's gewoon simpelweg niet mee doen omdat hun team gewoon te weinig geld heeft. Dat een ferrari gewoon zich niet aan de afspraken houd qua testen, en dat gewoon gedoogd wordt.. en zo zijn er meer van dit soort onsmakelijke onregelmatigheden.
Ondanks de constant wijzigende regels om het F1 spelletje wat dichter bij elkaar te brengen.. terwijl ze dat gewoon meer met het verschil in materiaal moeten doen dan met vormen van qualificeren etc.
Hoop echt dat A1 GP gaat worden wat het beloofd, en dat ook daadwerkelijk de rijder/team combinatie de winst kan bewerkstelligen.. en niet andersom. En vooral ook dat je nu ook echt voor je land uitkomt. Dan kan wat mij betreft de F1 lekker door keutelen.. en zal volgens mij gewoon een langzame dood sterven.
Bron:
http://www.verstappen.nl
Het leuke is dat ze ook in Australië rijden, en danwel ook nog in Sydney op Eastern Creek waar ik al een keer de V8 supercars heb mogen aanschouwen (40min rijden van mijn locatie).
Jos, dit is een zo veel eerlijker kans voor je dan waar dan ook.. je verdiend het om als eerste te mogen aftrappen in dezer!
Dit gaat smullen worden,... w00t!
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July 1, 2005
Red Bull racing vs France
Dit mot even tussendoor..
Tis al een paar dagen oud, maar mot ut ffies kwijt:
Als je al vleugels heb dan moet je ze natuurlijk ook gebruiken, en dat doet Red Bull Racing, zeker als je product gebanned is van de Franse markt. Om even het stijve Formule 1 gebeuren qua uitlatingen wat fleur te geven heeft RBR een persbericht uit gegeven om even duidelijk te maken hoe ze over Frankrijk denken aangaande de aankomende F1 race op Magny Course.
Het kopstukje begint al met:
According to American writer Mark Twain, "France has usually been governed by prostitutes," which is a bit unfair, when everyone knows France has been governed by Asterix the Gaul, his son Charles De Gaulle, Sacha Distel, Brigitte Bardot, that actor with a big nose and singer Johnny Halliday. Ah! La Belle France.
Lees het gehele stukje op:
http://www.eurosport.co.uk
Denk dat laatste wanvertoning van Michelin natuurlijk hier ook een steentje aan bijgedragen heeft.
Sorry.. dit moest ik natuurlijk even kwijt.. lol ;)
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