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Click me Time for a little round-up from my CeBIT 2006 visit. Even thought the CeBIT 2006 had 6,262 exhibitors, including over 3,300 from abroad and around 450,000 visitors, I did not see anything really ‘new and exiting’. In fact it was a bit of a dissapointment for me. I had expected that there would be more new gadgets and cool new inventions, but as it turned out it was rather dull. Sure, there were enough new and exiting HD-TV LCD screens, but that is just evolution, not revolution.I did see a few kewl things though and I like to […]

About 1 minute after I published my story about XP in the Dual Core iMac, I checked the official website that was hosting the contest, and now it says it has been confirmed: Latest Update Contest has been won – updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution. So probably Narf2006 did it! Now: I can’t wait to read HOW he did it (and with me probably thousands of others).

iMac Core Duo The minute the new Intel based iMac Core Duo came out the race was on: who would be the first to be able to circumvent the EFI-bios and boot Windows XP on a Mac. There is even a contest with some prize money for this. So now this guy (I’m sure it’s a guy: I haven’t seen any women hackers capable of doing stuff like this) called Narf2006 and his companion Blaka have now posted a movie showing how they boot XP on an iMac. If they are not frauds – and there is no way of […]

Gadget Walhalla Tomorrow will be a day of travel. A day of walking till we drop. In others words: it’s CeBIT time! The US always boasts that it’s Comdex is the biggest electronics fair, but everyone knows that CeBIT is way bigger. Even if you would go every day the event lasts, you would not be able to see everything. It’s just huge. Back in the good old days (before 2001 that is) when I still worked for Netcast (Lost Boys Business Solutions) we would travel in style: we would just grab the private Lost Boys jet or the plane […]

Weekly news It has been a busy week. Both at my work but also when it comes to the news. If I would have had more time, I would have wrote a bit more about it. But for now I will just have to do with some highlights. Starting with the most recent news: yesterday Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Serbia died in his prison in The Hague. He was there waiting for his trial for his warcrimes during the Yugoslav wars. There are some parallels there with the trial against Saddam Hussein. The fact that Hussein is in […]

Asus UM-PC Microsoft has revealed it’s ‘Origami’ project at the CeBIT electronics show this week. After trying to get the same kind of hyped attention that defines Apple, it is now revealed that Origami is just nothing more than the platform that is going to fill the gap between PDA’s and TabletPC’s. Or, as Microsoft calls it: Ultra-Mobile PC’s. Off course the first video’s are popping up so here is one that has been made at the CeBIT (I hope to be able to visit it next Tuesday: so there might be a big CeBIT Bloggers@large editions). As can be […]

Hmm, I think my girlfriend probably knows what this tastes like.

After experiencing a power outage last week, it was now time for the ADSL line to go down. Last night around 22:15 I wanted to look something up on the Internet, only to discover I had no connection whatsoever. My first reaction was to reboot my router, but that did not work. Next, I checked the statuspage on the router. It showed I did not get an external IP-address from my ADSL router. So I went over to the closet where my modem is situated and discovered the DSL light was not on. Resetting it didn’t work either. Bollocks! Since […]

I’m probably number 2.387.681 to blog this, but I can’ resist it, because it is really funny for those people who have a love-hate (or hate-hate) relationship with Microsoft and the way they market their stuff. So just click on play and see the video 😉 Microsoft designs the iPod package:

It’s dead, Jim! 11:30 am. Suddenly the music stops. "Hmm, that’s weird. Oh, my remote desktop connection is gone too. Hmm. What was that? Let’s reconnect." 15 minutes later: "Ok, what happened? Where is my NAS and why can’t I connect to my other PC’s? Oops, now the connection is gone altoghether". This is what happened this morning at my work. I turned on my iLounge 24×7 radio there and suddenly it was gone. I could log-in at my server (just once) and after that it was dead. Help! Man Server down! Call 911! All day long I could not […]