Jacken’s Blog

I found this interesting post about the Cocoa framework and how it empowers small developer to produce great software with a small team.

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IBM is spending $100 million to beef up it’s linux commitment. After doing the economical blunder of the century, effectively giving the software market to Microsoft, It must feel great to be able to get back at them now with the help of linux.

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Today I got a new domain, www.jackenhack.com (jacken.com is taken unfortunately)

Have been struggling with mod_rewrite so redirect works with a 301 code. Hopefully I’ll still keep my ranking at google this way without loosing it all.

so if you link to my blog, please update them as soon as possible. Don’t forget to update my RSS [...]

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There’s only one software package that crashes at my customers are Microsoft Office. After having problem with Word that would crash on a regular basis, I upgraded Office X with the latest patch from Microsoft, Upgrade 10.1.6. This made Microsoft Word become a bit more stabile but now PowerPoint can’t open older versions of documents, [...]

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I usually use Nik Sharpener before I print photographs on my Epson printer because it really makes the pictures snap sharp. But after upgrading my camera body to a Canon 20d something is wrong. Nik Sharpener has a great feature where it checks your settings to ensure that your picture and print size has resolution [...]

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Second time today I read an article on Gates and his ways. First, he used extortion methods to force the Danish government to do it the Microsoft way, or 800 persons in Denmark would lose their jobs. Then I read this article on how he used to dislike software patents when Microsoft was small, because [...]

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Searching the net, I found this great photography site. If you want to check out some wonderful pictures, go here.

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After checking out the winners of the World Press Photo of the Year 2004, I realized that the best pictures are in the sports category. And I hate sports. Weird.

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Jack Valenti, the former head of MPAA once compared the BetaMax video recorder with the Boston Strangler. Back in the day they where totally scared that the video cassette recorder would make illegal copying possible, thus ruining the movie business. They took it to court and lost, making it possible for you to buy a [...]

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I got fed up with the fan that’s running constantly on my Powerbook 12″ rev b 867mhz after installing the 10.3.8 Update. So here’s how you do it:

Download Update 10.2.8 and use Pacifist to extract /System/Library/ExtensionsAppleADM103x.kext from MacOSXUpdate10.2.8.pkg to the desktop. Do a backup of AppleADM103x.kext from [...]

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