Monthly Archives: February 2007

Installing base4 on windows vista with UAC turned on

Windows vista introduces the wonderful concept of User Account Control, which also exists on linux and should make your computer more safe.

Anyway I decided to let the UAC turned on and want to work through the extra clicks etc.

Today I needed Base4 again and when I tried to install the program it would go until it was almost complete and then it would come up with error 2869

the easy way around this was to create a .cmd file in the with the following line : msiexec /i “C:\Users\ivan\Downloads\SourceSetup-2.2.0.91.msi”

and execute that cmd file by right clicking it and chosing run as administrator

Bring on the quantum please

I got this link sent to me recently. I’ve recently become interested in quantum physics but haven’t had the time to start digging deeper into the subject, yet. Anyway if you have some time on your hands you can read the article. I found it quite interesting.

Some interesting passages would be :

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail.

According to a recent Scientific American article, “a 40-bit quantum computer could re-create in little more than, say, 100 steps, a quantum system that would take a classical computer, having a trillion bits, years to simulate.”

I can’t wait until these things become a closer reallity :)

Congratulations to Alex

Alex James became a father again. :D

Intentional programming

This is a great read. It’s a really long article but i found it really interesting and continued it to the end (which is very very rare in my case)

It’s about Charles Simonyi and what he has been up to in his carreer plus his plans for the future.

Charles Simonyi–Microsoft’s former chief architect, the tutelary genius behind its most famous applications, the inventor of the method of writing code that the company’s programmers have used for 25 years, and now the proponent of an ambitious project to reprogram software

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18047