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Archive for December, 2009

My brother just got a new Playstation 3 for Christmas and since he is away to London right now I thought I would also have some fun with it Anyway, I wanted to watch a movie and that’s no problem when we got a NAS at home but the DLNA server of the device is [...]

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Microsoft back in the day release a small paper on how to minimize the effect from the antivirus software on the operating system’s performance. Let me point out that the paper was released in July 2007. But despite the fact of this almost (in computer and internet terms) prehistoric release date TrendLabs’s writer David Sancho [...]

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Having fun with chaos

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

So right now I’m writing a rather huge project in school about “mathematical chaos theory in conjunction with traditional statistics in relation with a chemical experiment”. It’s REALLY exciting and fun (in a very geeky way). When working with numeric chaotic datasets it’s really handy to show the dataset in a graphical way. I of [...]

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Joomla hacks that makes your day easier

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

So If you read my previous post about the fact that Joomla sucks and why Joomla makes me so frustrated you properly thought I would be nice with some solutions on the problems stated. So I created some hacks as answers, here goes: A custom menu-maker operating in only one sub-level because that is what [...]

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Why Joomla sucks!

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

So I got this job from a customer: setup a design from a sliced PSD file into some CSS formatted XHTML. Fair enough, that couldn’t be that hard – and it wasn’t. The real pain the in ass is NOW: I have to set the darn thing up so it can run in Joomla! I’ve [...]

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