Uit het maandarchief: april 2005
“Turn it into a server“, I responded. Sven thought about it. “My old Powerbook? Why would I turn that into a server?” I didn’t know. Everybody seems to turn old computers into servers these days. But why, and how? We considered an e-mail server, a file-server and even a distiller server. Having a server at [...]
Lees verder →I discovered command-line browsing. This is just too geeky. For the lot of you: imagine that black DOS screen you learned to hate over the years, with those white blinking letters? You can surf in there on a Mac. You type the address of a site you want to see, and you get the code [...]
Lees verder →3 years at research center IMEC in Leuven had me believing the future is in low-power wearable electronics. Jokingly, I sometimes said: why don’t we just make the batteries charge faster? Toshiba seems to agree with me.
Lees verder →There it is: my wireless dream. It lies on the floor defaced before it ever had a chance to blossom. Let’s have a moment of silence (…). OK, that’s enough. Now we can shout at the disgustingly high-priced GPRS service of former state company Proximus. How do they expect us to go wireless charging half [...]
Lees verder →Don’t laugh. It’s a mistake anyone could have made. “Billy”, that’s a boy’s name, right? How could I know Billie Holiday was with “ie”? Still prefer Nina Simone of all the Ancient Music Makers I’m discovering. Who’s that police-guy called “String” anyway?
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