Archive: March 2009

3 posts

Webstock Trading Card Game - final wrap-up

by kai on 23/03/2009

This blogpost was sitting in a text file on my hard drive for quite a while now and I finally finished it last night. It's going to be the final wrap-up of the Webstock 09 trading card game, Minty and I've run at the conference. Besides pushing out the complete results table, I also want to go over a few statistics. The bandwith of the scores achieved by the players was 287 to 672.5. The median…

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Accessing the console session on Windows Terminal Services from OS X

by kai on 23/03/2009

This is a sort of note-for-myself post. Just today I needed to use Remote Desktop to jump onto a Windows 2003 Server of a client. Only problem - all the client licenses were blocked and I couldn't get in. Out of office hours. Grrr. Solution: use the console session (session 0). By the way - can ANYONE explain me why it's called console session? I mean - where's the console? It's still a UI with…

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Installing OS X on a Dell Mini 9

by kai on 10/03/2009

People who follow me on Twitter might have noticed that I was eagerly awaiting the delivery of a black Dell Mini 9 during the last 2 weeks. Finally I got it the other day and right away converted it into an OS X machine - who wants Windows XP on such a beautiful little netbook anyway? My configuration is: Black Dell Mini 9, 1 GB of RAM and the 16 GB solid state drive. Dell NZ just offers the…

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