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Alphatronic P2 plays Silent Night
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
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alphatronic
retro
This more than 30 years old Triumph-Adler Alphatronic P2 is still working. It can also play music. Here
is a video how it plays the song Silent Night. This song is this year
200 years old.
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Getting to run some delphi program with wine under linux
Saturday, May 26, 2018
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wine
delphi
linux
Maybe you have an Windows program, but you don’t want to start your Windows virtual machine (or boot into Windows)
everytime to use it. There is wine which provides a compatibility layer for Windows
programs so that they can run on Linux and other operating systems.
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Easter date calculations
Sunday, February 18, 2018
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calendar
algorithm
When you create a calendar, like OOoCalendar, it’s nice, if
the calendar already calculates holidays. One of the holidays, that is every year on a somewhat
different date is Easter. There are many other Christian holidays that depend on the Easter day like
40 days after Easter is Ascension Day.
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Timezones
Sunday, December 3, 2017
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java
timezone
olson
Do you know the “Olson database”? It’s the database in which all the timezones of the world
are described. The timezones of the present - and also of the past.
See the wikipedia article tz database for more information.
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Big or Little
Saturday, October 7, 2017
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embedded
protocol
Every number has an ending. Sometimes it’s big, sometimes it’s little.
When you are dealing with a number, that’s greater than what fits into 1 byte, you’ll need
more space to store the number. Then the order of the bytes matters. This
post is about the endianess, whether it’s big-endian or little-endian.
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