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Sound in TuxGuitar
I just accidentally uninstalled TuxGuitar (it uses Java, which I have a habit of deleting from my system :). Unfortunately, that meant I not only had to reinstall it, but also had to re-find-out how to...
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Dosbox won’t get Ctrl-Break…
As you do not know, during my recent bike holidays, I ran into Arnout and had another go at Sokoban. Of course, I couldn’t just let it be and I’ve been having some fun ever since tinkering with the...
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Capdanse Swing rocks!
I’ve picked up Lindy Hop dancing again. It’s fun (even though class is a lot further from home than before :), and so I figured to attend one of the training weekends. I had one last year (Swinging in...
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Sloppy focus (focus follows mouse) in Ubuntu 11.10
Had to upgrade my ubuntu when they ended support for Ubuntu 11.04. Of course, now I no longer have the nice window manager… But this one can be tweaked too. Install “MyUnity” to set # desktops, and...
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SVN “generic failure”
Talk about weird errors: $ svn up svn: generic failure Le what?! Apparently, this can have multiple causes: Hostname of your local machine not being resolved (try adding to hosts file of the SVN...
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Thunderbird’s context menu disappears
I like cleaning up my inbox. Right-click a message, “move to” and select a folder. Except that sometimes, I right-click a message, but before I can select “move to”, the context menu is gone again....
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SokoBan 2012 released!
Arnout de Mooij and I are proud to announce the first official release of SokoBan 2012! This is a classic version of the game Sokoban, completely programmed by Arnout and myself. We started programming...
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SokoDroid
Thanks to Filipe Ferreira, we have tested Soko2012 on an Android system. You can see the result below. It works!!!
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Unity crashes on Alt-Tab (Ubuntu 11.10)
So, there’s a bug, where Unity (Ubuntu’s window manager) crashes on Alt-Tab. It’s been fixed for a year now in the newer Ubuntu’s, but those of us running the old stuff… we’re stuck. Unless, of course,...
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here’s what did work for me. (sorry for the short post, in a hurry!)
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Swing Dancing is becoming “A Thing”
There has been a lot of Lindy Hop dancing lately in my life. I’ve been enjoying the dance right here in Luxembourg since roughly 2010. Sjouke dragged me to the first classes by Ieva and Einar, and I’ve...
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Running from Rock to Swing
Last weekend, Wichard was over and we went to the Rock A Field festival. Volbeat was as good as I remembered from last time they were at RAF, but other than that, there wasn’t much rock happening. On...
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Sweden, part 1: top-heavy galleon
I got back from Sweden a week ago, and Herräng totally rocked! I’ve learned more about swing that I’ve ever forgotten about dancing – some of it might even stick :) However, first things first: I spent...
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Herräng, or how I learned to dance a bit
I just got back from Herräng, and it was totally awesome! The official overview of Herräng 2013 week 2: However, that misses out on all sorts of really cool things. First of all: auditions. Auditions...
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Adding tabs to your website
Sjouke and I have been actively updating and improving the Swing Dance Luxembourg website. Informally, we’ve reached a division of tasks: Sjouke is focused more on content, and I focus more on tweaking...
View ArticleGuess who’s back?!
Wow, that were some holidays! First I went hiking with Aga in Norway in Jotunheimen. It took forever to get there (2.5hrs to Brussels Charleroi, fly to Oslo Rygge, 1hr bus to Oslo, 5hr bus to Fagernes,...
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Crystal ball gazing
I was chatting with Matt. Fantastic discussion on all sorts of things, including… “The Future”! I’m sharing some of the things we touched upon below. The future of 3D printing The discussion meandered...
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Firefox tiny tip
I recently had occasion to reset my Firefox install – meaning all settings reverted to default. One annoying thing is that if you have a few tabs (a few > 6), Firefox does not show a close button on...
View ArticleNew laptop (MS, wherefore art thou so fat?)
I bought a new laptop (cool thingy, it’s a Toshiba Z930 with mem upgraded to 10 Gb, ghi ghi). The specs are really cool: it’s the lightest ultrabook out there (at the time of writing), and while it...
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Sherlock Aga and the Case of the Foul Fragrance
Sherlock was seated on the couch, deeply engrossed in her latest experiment. I went to the kitchen, and noticed a rather particular smell. “Do you smell that, Aga?” “Hmmms what?” “That smell — not...
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