I am by no means a gamer (don’t play, never did a lot (except for Tetris (the original one), The Incredible Machine, and maybe something else) but was fascinated by Crayon Physics Deluxe. I’ve been setting up my father’s and my sister’s computer (they’ve bought themselves an MSI multi-touch all-in-one PC AE2220M) and found an interesting application in the Windows 7 Touch Pack: Blackboard. It reminded me of The Incredible Machine, a DOS-based game in the early nineties. Refreshing the fond memories of TIM, I read the Wikipedia article about it, where I saw the game Crayon Physics Deluxe mentioned. When I saw the demo (the video recording), I downloaded a trial and bought the game. I do own a tablet, and I’m testing it on my kids tomorrow (they are not allowed to work computer otherwise).
Continued…
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By miha
– 16. 1. 2010
Presenečen sem danes ugotovil, da je na bolha.com le nekaj rubrik brezplačnih. Za precej rubrik pa zahtevajo plačilo. Prodajam (po zelo ugodni ceni!) PVC okna in vrata, ki sem jih odstranil ob adaptaciji hiše… Očitno bom dal pač oglas na Pod svojo streho. Sicer, če koga zanima, ali pozna koga ki bi to rabil, gre za kvaliteten PVC profil (jaz drugod po hiši še vedno imam ostala okna) in termopan (k=1.1) stekla. Dimenzije: balkonska vrata (višina: 224cm, širina 100cm) in dve okni (višina: 140cm, širina 210cm).
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By miha
– 13. 1. 2010
I’ve had this problem for the second time yesterday. I’ve had this problem once before, but I could not remember how I solved it then. The situation: Application developed and tested on a local Windows Server 2008, MS SQL Server 2008. I deployed the application on a hosted server with SQL Server 2008 Express. The OS is WS2008 R2. I noticed, that I was missing slovene characters, but just one of them. A letter č (c with caret). I tested the local installation, and everything was fine. I opened SQL Server Management studio, and tried to enter slovene characters there. I typed čšž, submitted the query, and what got insterted was cšž. (notice that č was being converted on the fly to c). What is weird is, that this is happening on a hosted machine, and not on my local machine — although both machines use English as a default language.
Since I’ve had this problem before, and I discussed it with Dejan, I started digging through all of my email correspondence with Dejan, but could not find anything. I checked and changed the collation of a database, still nothing. My best friend, Google, was of no help either. It then struck me. Varchar. It is non-unicode data type. nvarchar is of course, what was needed to fix the problem. It is intriguing though, that all of the other Slovene characters work, but c with caret (č) does not get corrupt as one would expect, but gets converted to c.
A lesson learned, is a lesson earned, I guess. This post is here to remind of this situation next time.
Posted in software.
By miha
– 20. 11. 2009
Hvala vsem ki ste se udeležili predavanj. Menim da smo odprli nekaj zanimivih vprašanj, ki jih velja dobro razmisliti pri naslednjih projektih. Prezentacija predavanja z naslovom “Kako z velikimi” je na voljo za “dolvleko”.
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By miha
– 1. 10. 2009
