Tuesday, October 14, 2003
EDC reklamen

This one's for the Danes ;-)

I EDC-reklamen der for tiden kører på TV2, er der en gut som skal forestille at være en almindelig dansk EDC-kunde, der lige er flyttet sammen med sin kæreste. I reklamen siger han følgende: "Da min kæreste og jeg besluttede os for at flytte sammen, kontaktede vi EDC for at sælge VORES lejlighed" Citat slut! Bemærk at "lejlighed er i ental

Hmm...altså hvis de har besluttet sig for at flytte sammen, så er der vel ikke nogen "vores" lejlighed at sælge!?

Bare en tanke....

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What ever happend to...



...Radar O'Reilly. Well you can find out by visiting this site. Hmm... I wonder what Eddie the Eagle is doing nowadays...check it out :-)

This is "Radar" 2003...





thanks to David Blangstrup for telling me about this site

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Thursday, October 09, 2003
White House Knew Saddam was No Threat



US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice confirmed in early 2001 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been disarmed and was no threat.

Quote (Colin Powell):"He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

The quote is taken from the official transcript released by the US Office of Foreign Affairs. The statement came at a meeting between Powell and the Saudi Foreign minister. See this link for the full transcript.

I'm glad Saddam is gone but..
Pro war or not,- it's pretty clear that the US goverment has some explaining to do.

Just my 2 cents


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What are the odds of you being attacked by a shark



Well, it does look a little bit frightning, doesn't it. But what are the odds of you actually ending up in the belly of this fella'? Not very good! In fact you have a greater chance of being killed by a coconut falling on your head. In 2002, there were 60 confirmed "unprovoked" shark attacks in the world, resulting in 3 deaths! That means that you are 15 times more likely to be killed by falling coconuts than by a shark. Isn't three people, three too many and do we really need sharks anyway? Well, shark attacks are more a result of human patterns rather than shark patterns. Besides, sharks play an important role in the world's oceans. As top predators, sharks keep other species from overpopulating. Sharks also have a high resistance to many diseases and have value in biological research. Researchers are, for example, looking at sharks to find a cure for cancer, among other things.
Here's a few tips to avoid encounters with sharks:

Avoid splashing.
Don't go into the water while bleeding.
Don't wear shiny jewelry while swimming in the ocean.
Swim with other people.
Avoid murky waters where sharks seek out smaller fish for prey.
Don't swim at dusk, when sharks are more likely to be feeding.
Avoid looking like a tasty sealion :-)



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Siegfried: Tiger wanted to help Roy



Last Wednesday Roy from the Las Vegas duo Sigfried & Roy, almost got killed by one of his tigers. The tiger momentarily lashed out at his trainer (Roy), mauling him and then dragging him offstage. According to Sigfried the tiger was only trying to protect Roy from danger. Well I doubt it,- maybe that'll teach him not mess with tigers and not to keep them in captivity. Just my 2 cents....
CNN has a report on this....


They're a nice couple though Sigfried & Roy ,- aren't they....Don't know what James is doing there...


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Orange Gun

FIRST OF ALL: I take absolutely no responsibility for the content of the following link. If you decide to follow the instructions on THIS page, and build yourself a Orange Gun, you do so at your own risk.




Although the tutorial is in danish, it's so loaded with pics on how to construct the gun, I belive it's pretty easy to follow the instructions.
This is what you need to build the gun:

1. Chamber:55 cm 110*3,0 mm PVC-U downpipe.
2: Pipe: 75 cm 75*2,8 mm downpipe
3: Plug.
4: 110 mm -> 75 mm reduction ring.
5: 110 mm Socket.

- Siliconespray.
- Longnecked lighter.
- Thick gloves (fireproof)
- Hairspray
- Lightergas.

Check-out the picture section on how to discharge the orange gun!! Do not discharge the gun in urban areas,- shooting distance: 200 meters!!

AND DON'T FORGET: I take absolutely no responsibility for the content of the following link. If you decide to follow the instructions on THIS page, and build yourself a Orange Gun, you do so at your own risk.

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How to install OpenOffice 1.0.3 on your Mac



OpenOffice is suite of programs quite similar to the well-known Microsoft Office. But there's one big difference,- OpenOffice is free!

OpenOffice is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Working in OpenOffice is easy, but installing the program is not as easy as we're used to. OpenOffice does run on the OS X Unix kernal, but it requires a "window server" called X11 to do so. X11 isn't an integrated part of OS X and you must therefore install it before you'll be able to use OpenOffice.

Getting OpenOffice to run on your Mac therefore requires to steps:
1. Installing X11
2. Installing OpenOffice

Before we start out I have to inform you that you're installing and running X11 and OpenOffice at your own risk!

Let's get to it!

1. Installing X11

First we need to download and install X11. There's a number of X11 versions for the Mac OS, but recently Apple released their own version of X11 and since it's fast, stable and easy to install we'll use Apple's version. X11 can be found at the Apple website. This link will take you right to the X11 download site.
Installing X11 is easy. When your download is done just doubleclick the installer icon. It's probably somewhere on your desktop! When the installation is done you'll find a X11 icon in your Applications folder. You've now installed a window server. Try and start the program by doubleclicking the X11 icon. If you see a terminal-window looking something like this:



then everything was installed as it should.

Now, that was the easy part! Let's go to step.

2. Installing OpenOffice

OpenOffice comes as an 164 mb diskimage and you can download it here: OpenOffice

You start the installation by doubleclicking the installer icon as you normally would, but as opposed to most program installations you're actually installing 4 programs: OpenOffice and 3 small programs all needed for OpenOffice to run. Because of this quardruble (whoa!) installation, you'll need to type in your administrator password several time.

3.Running OpenOffice

After you've installed OpenOffice, you'll notice that a new folder has been added to your Applications folder: OpenOffice 1.0 (or OpenOffice 1.0.3). If you open it you'll find an AppleScript with which you can launch OpenOffice. If you use this script OpenOffice will start really slow and additionally, the script might not even be able to launch X11 (Notice: X11 must run before you launch OpenOffice). Luckily there's another nifty way to startup OpenOffice: Add OpenOffice to the X11 "Applications" menu.

Here's how it's done:

-launch X11 and go to the menu "Applications"->"Customize"
- press the "Add item" button and type in "OpenOffice" in the "Name"-field (Note: it doesn't really matter what you type)
- in the command field you type in: "sh/Applications/OpenOffice.org.1.0/program/soffice" (without the exclamation marks). This is under the assumption that your OpenOffice folder is named OpenOffice.org.1.0 and that it is located in the Applications folder!!
- press "Done".

Now try to launch OpenOffice by accessing the Applications menu and select "OpenOffice"

Please notice that OpenOffice takes a while to start and your mac might seem to be unresponsive,- but eventually you'll see the "OpenOffice Splash screen". If nothing happends within the first couple of minutes , you might have to check the settings in the "Applications/Customize" menu. (Sorting out the settings can be a little tricky and even the smallest misspelling in the "Command"-part can mean
that the program won't start.)

You should now be able to run OpenOffice on your Mac

From now on all you have to do to run OpenOffice is:
1. Launch X11
2. Go to the "Applications" menu in X11 and choose "OpenOffice"

All credits to Martin Bredthauer

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Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Hurtigere OS X på din G3'er

Sidder du ved en G3'er og synes du at OS X kører lidt langsomt, ja så er der hjælp at hente. Specielt G3'ere med et grafikkort der ikke understøtter QuartzExtreme, dvs. de maskiner der har et grafikkort med under 16 mb ram, kan med få enkle midler speedes op. En af måderne at gøre det på, er ved at disable skygger på vinduer og "menu-rullegardinerne". Det betyder at din mac ikke længere skal bruge kræfter på at generere skyggerne, og brugerfladen vil derfor forekomme mærkbart hurtigere. De manglende skygger kan i begyndelsen betyde, at det er lidt svært at se, hvorvidt et vinduer ligger i forgrunden eller baggrunden, men det er dog noget man hurtigt vænner sig til. Hastighedsforøgelsen ligger på omkring 20%, så det er altså noget der kan mærkes. For at fjerne skyggerne skal du bruge det lille haxie fra Unsanity der hedder ShadowKiller. Istedet for at skulle aktivere det manuelt hver gang du ønsker at fjerne skyggerne, kan du føje det til dine login emner. Download ShadowKiller. Placér det i din programmappe, gå ind i systempræferencerne (den ligger sikkert i din dock), klik på Login emner, klik på "Tilføj", lokaliser ShadowKiller (du lagde den i programmappen tror jeg) og klik så "Tilføj". Nu er ShadowKiller aktiv hver gang du logger ind eller starter din mac. Enjoy :-)


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Hvordan fungerer hjernen?

Hvordan fungerer den egenlig,- den der 1,2 kg tunge fedtklump du har mellem ørerne. 100 milliarder nerveceller forbundet med hinanden i et sindrigt netværk. Hvordan formår den på én gang at styre kropstemperaturen, blodtrykket, hjerterytme, åndedræt, behandle og fortolke sanseindtryk, styre motorikken, drømme, tænke, huske og føle? Hvordan klarer vores hjerne egenlig alt det. På HowStuffWorks kan du læse hvordan det går til.



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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Fleetwood Mac kommer til Kiel

Fleetwood Mac kommer til Kiel den 16. november, i noget er ligner originalbesætningen. Vigtigst af alt så er Lindsey Buckingham med igen. Ærgelig at der ikke er nogen danske koncertarrangører, der hvad gidet ulejlige sig med at få dem til Danmark!!

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