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Eetlijst.nl vanaf de cli 
In ons studentenhuis gebruiken we de website eetlijst.nl om de administratie rondom het eten bij te houden. Op een dood moment besloot ik mijn python-vaardigheden wat op te vijzelen en heb een script gebouwd om vanaf de cli dit overzicht op te vragen.
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Oh lovely, a RRoD (update)
This is just great. Yesterday, in a weekend I need the thing the most, my Xbox 360 decided to show the Red Ring of Death. I do not know how Microsoft's Customer Support has evolved since last year, but I have found reports posted in summer 2007 of Xboxes being in repair for several weeks. So, apart from not having my favourite distraction for this weekend, I risk missing out on Fallout 3's launch day.
I guess that the only thing I can do is call Customer Support and get myself a box or sticker or whatever is needed to ship my game console back for repair. Well... at least it is free. A few months later and I would have had to pay for a brand new one.
Update: Hurray, the device is back. In fact, it has been back for almost a week now. And guess what? I got it right on Fallout 3's launch date
. In total, the console was away for about ten days (give or take), and all expenses were paid by Microsoft. I even got a Xbox Live Gold membership for a month.
I guess that the only thing I can do is call Customer Support and get myself a box or sticker or whatever is needed to ship my game console back for repair. Well... at least it is free. A few months later and I would have had to pay for a brand new one.
Update: Hurray, the device is back. In fact, it has been back for almost a week now. And guess what? I got it right on Fallout 3's launch date
. In total, the console was away for about ten days (give or take), and all expenses were paid by Microsoft. I even got a Xbox Live Gold membership for a month.Quick and dirty wallpaper concatenation
It took me a while, but I finally bit the bullet and bought myself a larger, 22-inch screen. Although my brother still beats me in screen estate, I feel confident I can settle for an additional 22" for the next four or five years.
I want to use both my monitors together and to do that, I have used Nvidia's TwinView setting. This setting merges the screen estate of both monitors into one large virtual desktop with a resolution of 2960x1050. This is a problem for some wallpapers, though, especially the ones that are designed for one specific resolution. The best way to use these is by combining them in one large image using an image manipulation tool.
Of course I could use the GIMP for such an occasion, but it is way too much work aligning both wallpapers by hand. And why should I when tools like ImageMagick are at my disposal?
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I want to use both my monitors together and to do that, I have used Nvidia's TwinView setting. This setting merges the screen estate of both monitors into one large virtual desktop with a resolution of 2960x1050. This is a problem for some wallpapers, though, especially the ones that are designed for one specific resolution. The best way to use these is by combining them in one large image using an image manipulation tool.
Of course I could use the GIMP for such an occasion, but it is way too much work aligning both wallpapers by hand. And why should I when tools like ImageMagick are at my disposal?
montage wallpaper_1280.jpg wallpaper_1680.jpg \
-tile 2x1 -geometry "1680x1050+0+0" \
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Fallout 3 trailer pondering
During my biweekly stroll through the new trailers present on gaming website Gametrailers, I noticed that Bethesda Softworks had released a play-through of two of the first quests an exploring Vault dweller encounters in Fallout 3. I decided to test my reservations about this new title and loaded the clips.
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Per contact custom SMS sounds in Symbian
A little over two months ago, I thought it was time to enter the era of the smartphones. After careful consideration I eventually decided to get myself a Nokia N95, which has not let me down since... as long as it was charged. The pim functionality is adequate, gps works as long as you manage to get a lock and it plays my music and podcasts perfectly. It even came with a snazzy headset - yeah, I know, I have low standards in that regard.
However, there was one thing bothering me: although Symbian, the OS running on my phone, is perfectly capable to select different ringtones per contact, it cannot do the same for incoming sms messages. For me, reading sms messages in general has quite a low priority and when busy, I am often not inclined make a run for my mobile whenever I hear an incoming message. I am, though, very interested in sms messages from certain contacts (for example from my girlfriend or my parents). It would be excellent if I could distinguish these high priority messages from the general, less pressing ones. Time to go to the proverbial drawing board.
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However, there was one thing bothering me: although Symbian, the OS running on my phone, is perfectly capable to select different ringtones per contact, it cannot do the same for incoming sms messages. For me, reading sms messages in general has quite a low priority and when busy, I am often not inclined make a run for my mobile whenever I hear an incoming message. I am, though, very interested in sms messages from certain contacts (for example from my girlfriend or my parents). It would be excellent if I could distinguish these high priority messages from the general, less pressing ones. Time to go to the proverbial drawing board.
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