Monthly Archives: November 2017

fighting the last war – playing Blu-ray movies on Linux

Posted on November 25, 2017 by DocDock

How exactly did the product meeting go. We never had a graphical desktop and so lets just continue on with a 25 x 80 character green text only screen, the customer always loved those. Today a personal computer or even … Continue reading →

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The perception of power (of 9 volts)

Posted on November 13, 2017 by DocDock

When travelling I want to arrive at my destination ontime and unhurt.  I do appreciate that the world’s governments are just as interested and do take steps to ensure that dangerous people don’t hijack the plane or even worse. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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coding like it is 1996

Posted on November 8, 2017 by DocDock

It is a sad fact but I don’t always get to pick the tools I use at work.  Just today I felt like my colleague and I woke up in 1996 – back when java 1.6 was released. The client … Continue reading →

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windows batch processing

Posted on November 1, 2017 by DocDock

I really didn’t want to fool around with that little windows task that has been laying on my boss’s desk. It was planned that Robert would do it after the new year started but then he decided to quit. Now … Continue reading →

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