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Entries from September 2004

Sony Ericsson p900 to p910

September 30th, 2004 · 6 Comments

I needed a new mobile phone so I bought a Sony Ericsson p900. I knew that they where about to release the p910 model, but I needed the phone right away. Some of the new things in p910 that I miss in the p900 is HTML email and the ability to use MemoryStick Duo pro [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff

Strange predicament

September 29th, 2004 · No Comments

If I don’t have enough work, I can’t sleep. If I have too much work, I get stressed and my stomach goes up the fritz. And when the stomach acts up, I get reflux on my vocal cords, and consequently get laryngospasm. And when i get that, I’m afraid to sleep because there’s nothing like [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Time to redesign

September 28th, 2004 · 2 Comments

It’s about time to redesign this blog. I’m not a designer, but I know I can do better than this. One of my recent idea is to give my blog a weathered look, like an old wall or something. Here is an example of what I mean. This is not the final version, just a [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

For posterity

September 27th, 2004 · No Comments

Every manufacturer of Digital Cameras use different formats for storing RAW images. This will get you in trouble in years to come, when you are not able to open your pictures any more. So Adobe stepped up to the plate and has introduced a new image format based on Tiff, called Digital Negative (DNG) What [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff

Canon, make a smart move

September 22nd, 2004 · No Comments

When Canon introduced the Canon 300d, it was a revolution in that it was the first affordable digital system SLR camera. But because they had a more expensive camera, the 10d, they nurtured the 300d by not including a lot of functions. Stuff like no AI Focus except in the sports-program, no mirror lockup and [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff

Midlife crisis meeting

September 20th, 2004 · 2 Comments

I talked to my old friend Kalle today. First time we had a talk in about six years. This is a little strange considering that we have been the best of friends for a long time. And done some really funny, crazy, dangerous things together. But the family thing came between us. And it [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Weekend of Amavis, spamassassin and clamav

September 20th, 2004 · 1 Comment

My main linux webserver that hosts my company is about to be replaced. I have been thinking of it a lot, because it crashes about every four months. And when running linux you know it’s a hardware problem when you get horrible uptime. So I thought it was the right time to move over to [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff

Beatles

September 17th, 2004 · No Comments

In the news lately there’s been reports on Beatles choosing to distribute their music on MSN’s Online music store instead of Apples iTunes. What I don’t get is why this is a problem. Beatles sold about a gazillion records, so by my calculations, everyone who likes Beatles already have their songs.

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Tags: Technical stuff

MSN, the eager beaver

September 17th, 2004 · No Comments

It looks like Microsoft is kicking up their effort to compete with Google, at least in site visits. This is something that’s been going on for the last couple of months.

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Tags: Technical stuff

Bye bye Quark

September 13th, 2004 · No Comments

So it’s finally happening. The last couple of months a lot of customers have abandoned Quark Xpress for Adobe InDesign CS. They’re fed up with insane online registration, where you need old serial number, new serialnumber, old activation code and new activation code. And all this adds up to is that all the customers that [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff