Month: January 2008

Thinkpad X300

The not yet released Lenovo Thinkpad X300 seems to be a worthy competitor to the Apple Macbook Air, but with more features than the Air and with Solid State Drive (SSD) as the only storage option makes it smell even more expensive. It has been a bit too little about software development in this blog… Continue reading Thinkpad X300

Using F-Secure Health Check to save hard disk space

After my struggle to install Flash I finally managed to run F-Secure Health Check on the only computer running Windows in the house, my gaming computer with with 512 megabytes of RAM and only 40 gigabytes hard disk drive. It is almost ancient by today’s standards and I had old versions of numerous softwares. At… Continue reading Using F-Secure Health Check to save hard disk space

XSLT hacker

So far, this week has been a week of XSLT hacking. My favorite is probably the XSLT script that generates another XSLT script! 🙂 At one point I wanted to copy the default namespace (xmlns=…) from the source document to the destination document. I did like this to retrieve the URI for the default namespace.… Continue reading XSLT hacker

A “proxy” that converts a Real Player audio stream to MP3?

While working on creating an Atom feed from a web page I got the idea to create a proxy that takes an audio stream in Real Player format over RTSP/RTP/RDP and converts it to MP3 over HTTP. It should actually not be harder than to use mplayer to “play” the stream to lame and then… Continue reading A “proxy” that converts a Real Player audio stream to MP3?

Installing Adobe Flash Player on Windows XP: Problems and solution

Yesterday I wanted to run the excellent F-Secure Health Check web application on my gaming computer. The health check only runs in Internet Explorer, but I don’t use IE if I can avoid it and apparently I had no Flash Player working with Internet Explorer 7. When I tried to install the Flash Player from… Continue reading Installing Adobe Flash Player on Windows XP: Problems and solution