Jacken’s Blog

My friend Henke had his thirty fifth birthday friday. So a couple of old friends met up and had dinner together. Usually in Sweden, people get paid once a month, on the 25th, so the following weekend is the worst for going out to dinner or drinking. We ended up at a Mongolian restaurant, a [...]

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Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF 17-40/4L. 1/80 sec, 13f Went for a walk with the family today. We ended up in Nynäshamn.

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A while a go I updated my test server with the Apple Security Update 2005-001 and after that my MMCache stopped working. PHP has been updated and that requires a recompilation of MMCache.

Update: You can download a pre-compiled version of Turck MMCache for PHP 4.3.10 here. Copy mmcache.so to the directory /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429

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Typical Swedish milk cow. Species: Arla

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I upgraded to iPhoto 5 on two of my machines yesterday and on my stationary machine, all the albums and pictures disappeared. I should have done a backup, but I didn’t. All the pictures are in the iPhoto Library folder naturally, but all the albums and tags are lost. That’s if for me and iPhoto. [...]

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The term Stockholm syndrome is used to describe a situation where a hostage starts to agree with the oppressor. It comes from a well known Swedish bank robbery turned hostage situation called Norrmalmstorgsdramat that took place in the 70’s. There the hostage was more friends with the hostagetakers than with the police. But I [...]

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When the dentist finished drilling my tooth, it looked like a house in Berlin in 1945. My dentist had a mirror mounted in the lamp so I could follow the whole procedure, something I’ve never seen before. She had to drill all the way down to the root of the tooth. Not too comfy. This [...]

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There’s a new product, the FoxBlocker (402) that blocks the the neo-nazi right wing news channel Fox News, from viewing. Does not work here in Sweden, where the channel TV8 is rebroadcasting the crap. But I wouldn’t want to block it anyway. It’s great to stop by that channel sometimes just to get a good [...]

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There’s a lot of discussion the similarities of the Mac mini (5251) and the old slow selling mac Cube. One thing that separates them is the price. The cube did cost around $1700, the Mac mini costs $499. But there’s another thing that will make a big difference in sales. I don’t know anyone who [...]

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Yesterday I watched the last of two episodes of The Office Christmas Special. I totally loved the first season of that show. It must be one of the best written and played comedy series ever. But I did not like the second series as much. Why? Because I always have problems with laughing at someone [...]

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