Spam with comments and how to protect yourself

How can you avoid spam comments in your blog. I would say it is very important to do it because when Google (and I think this is also valid for Bing) finds it and notices that the links in it point to a spam-site, also your post (and site) go down in the rating.
So, in […]

Customer with only Windows logins (and you are NOT in their domain)

Have you been at a customer where ONLY Windows logins are allowed?
 
So launching NAV (or SQL Server Management Studio) to connect to their database is impossible.
 
Can you connect to their database if you don’t have a remote terminal or citrix to some computer in their domain?
 
Yes, you can!
 
Microsoft has a little (sysinternals) tool (shellrunas.exe) that […]

How to become an MVP?

I receive quite often this question. Now someone answered it really well: Goals, obsessions, and aspirations: becoming an MVP

Convergence 2009 New Orleans

Well, it is not my idea to point you to this, but Microsofts. But they have a point (and more than one) in doing it.
·        Early Registration discount date has been extended to January 21, 2009.  Save $300 by registering early, secure your favorite hotels while they are still available […]

Boinc (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)

What is this?
Well, here is some detailed info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing or http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
But in short : it all started with SETI@home (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home). To detect signs of extraterrestrial intelligent life in radiosignals. This asked for a lot of processing power that only supercomputers have (at a very high cost). So they invented this system to use the […]

A new desktop PC

A week ago, we (my wife and me) decided to buy a new desktop. What was to be just buying and re-installing turned out to be quite an adventure (… well not really, but it sounds good …)
 
First thing I noticed is that even the lowest priced computers are quite powerful! Maybe it looks to […]

I found a bug!

Well, we all find (a lot of) bugs in programs.
So why talk about them?
Well, this bug is REALLY different. This bug is a very ancient one. One that came from the era of the first computers!
What it is the story?
Well, I was at a customer when suddenly someone told me to have a look on […]

Theme dinner

Well, it started quite good: RAIN RAIN RAIN!
Luckily the hotel provided some coats to protect us:

Luc (at the right) and me (at the left).

Recreation of Blog

We found out that my blog had some problems with RSS-feed.
The RSS feed on the main page didn’t work. After several retries to fix it (and creating/deleting a new blog) I found out what messed up the RSS-feed.
In Options=>Permalinks=>Common options I changed the radiobutton from customized to numeric. This messed it all up. I tried […]

Benford’s Law

Ever wondered if a company is cheating with their G/L entries (and thus taxes)?
Now you can check it very easily.
Benford’s law defines how the first digit of the amounts are divided.
As you can see in the picture, the CRONUS International Ltd. company is cheating!
The numbers in read are quite diverse from the ones it […]

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