Many years ago, I bought an iBead Jens of Sweden MP-100. At the time I was a Windows/Linux user and everything was fine. Now that I'm a Mac user, syncing tracks to my trusty USB mp3 player is a bit harder. I had to copy tracks by hand, and when two tracks had the same title the copy would fail. THis was all very …

Yesterday a collegue of mine discovered a very ugly problem when storing BigDecimals from a Java 1.5 program into an Oracle 10g database. Not by experience, but by reading the article at http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t88158.html. We had not encountered the problem ourselves, but when passing the dredded 12500000 …

Today the Mac OS Software update popped up, and warned that these updates would require a reboot (about 80% of the updates do not require a reboot). I have gotten so used to not having reboot and hangup troubles that I almost was surprised to see that I needed to reboot. I use my Mac mini for editting foto's, video, …

Today I found an article about Norway suing Apple because music bought in the iTunes store could not be played on a non-iPod music player. If Apple looses this legal attack, it would result in an even stranger digital rights management situation than we already have. First, let me tell you why I think the whole legal …

If your administration is as good as anybodies, you are bound to loose the not-so-frequently used password for the SYS and SYSTEM users of oracle. Here are a few ways I found to re-set those passwords: Method 1: SQLPLUS (Tested on AIX Oracle 9.2.0.1.0) Log into the database server as a user belonging to 'dba' [unix ] …

I just checked out the new Dutch CC CD/DVD released under the Creative Commons license. While I was there I found a great piece of music done by Monokai. It's kind of old C64 game like music, you like it or hate it. I went to check out Monokai's website and I've spent a good 30 minutes playing with it. The website is …

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I have been watching the Macworld 2007 keynote address for the last 2 hours and all I can say is:... Jup, nothing. I am absolutely amazed by the way Apple has not only reinvented the phone (look ma, no keys!) but also the ipod (look ma, coverflow!), and maybe the most overlooked, but they reinvented the mouse!!! A …

In het laatste verslag van de Dakar rally op RTL7 was in de uitslag van de motoren Miriam Pol (warning audio ahead) van de lijst gevallen. Er werd ook geen woord aan gewijd in het verslag. Voor de mensen die bang zijn dat ze uit de race is: Nee dat is ze niet, Miriam staat 97e op dit moment en heeft zo te zien ook een …

Hi, I just discovered oypo.nl, an online service for photographers to sell prints of their photographs. It's a simple concept, where a photographer uploads images, and the website sells prints of these images to anybody who orders them. Part of the commision is going back to the photographer, and to some extent the …