Monthly Archives: July 2006

New Camera

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Thomas

I finally bought a camera, the Canon SD700 IS (AKA IXUS 800 IS). I am very satisfied with the camera, it has an excellent build quality and good image quality. The camera even worked out of the box with GPhoto … Continue reading →

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Disc Golf

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Thomas

I’m leaving the office for today to go play disc golf, should be fun (and varm). I guess I should have played some more freesbie before I left Denmark – I am sure I will lose big time :)

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Kazaa And The Record Industry

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Thomas

I have heard rumors that some of the packets containting an “illegal” sequence of zeros and ones that has been sent between kazaa peers have been routed through routers and switches made by Cisco, D-Link, HP and many others and … Continue reading →

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Eno River State Park

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Thomas

The day before yesterday Andy took me hiking at the Eno River. We saw a bunch of different animals, including a large snake, fireflies and numerous frogs and toads. In total we spent about two hours walking the narrow trails … Continue reading →

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Remote Backup Of A Subversion (svn) Repository

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Thomas

Yesterday I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to take a complete backup of a subversion repository containing some code that I am currently working on. The generic way to do this is svnadmin dump path-to-repos … Continue reading →

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Hooligans

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Thomas

Today Lars got me a Duke CS t-shirt, I wonder if I dare wear at at Turing-0. In other news I am going to see some baseball this evening. The game is supposedly very boring, I know it will be … Continue reading →

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Americana

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Thomas

Today was my first day at Duke University, Lars took me eating – american style. For breakfast we went out and had scrambled eggs and sausages/bacon, for dinner I had some weird fish thingies with rice and we just returned … Continue reading →

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Yaarrh

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Thomas

Tonight I am joing Mikoline, Mette and David for dinner somewhere downtown, afterwards we will go see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. I am not sure what to expect from this movie, I hope to get pleasantly surprised. … Continue reading →

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Back In Denmark

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Thomas

So I am back from SWAT now. We had a nice time and a lot of beers :). Pictures might follow if I can persuade GRUB to boot my old Windows XP installation. (Samsung only releases windows software for their … Continue reading →

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Going to Riga

Posted on July 4, 2006 by Thomas

In a few hours I will leave for the Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2006) with Allan. We will take the bus to Aarhus Airport and fly via Copenhagen to Riga. It figures that we are leaving Denmark just … Continue reading →

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