Archive 6/2006

Last monday I bought the new DSlite (in black) as a replacement for my not all that old Nintendo DS. I decided to do that primary because of the new screen which I hoped would make playing dark games like Metroid Prime: Hunters easier.

So here a small review after the first day with my new DS lite

• Really great screen. Much brighter than the old one and also the contrast looks better now.
• Good thing, that the status LEDs are now actually on a place where you can see them.
• It still takes some time getting used to the new position of the stylus (now on the right) and also that it still takes some force to get it out of the DS.
• Somehow the dpad feels different. Esp. the diagonal directions are quite hard but this might be just a problem between me and ACWW since I don't have this problem for example with "New Super Mario Bros."
• Why had Nintendo to invent yet another power adaptor?!

Don't have a messenger bag yet and want to show the world that you're a

Yesterday Digg v3 launched and the web is slowly but steady filling with

Ever felt the need to batch-rename quite a few tables in a MySQL database? Sadly phpMyAdmin doesn't offer renaming of all the tables in a specific database. So I first started renaming them manually using the commandline interface but got soon quite tired of the whole process.

A quite ugly but IMO pragmatic workaround for this limitation is to build a small query file holding all the RENAME TABLE statements you want. To generate this query listing first of all get a list of all the tables you want to rename.

For people who prefer using their own feed readers instead of the one bundled with Opera9 here a small hint that should get this going:

The idea is quite simple: Change the protocol of all the feeds linked in a HTML page from "http" to "feed". Then you need some way to show you the links to the feeds. Then simply bind your application to the "feed://" protocol in Opera using Preferences » Extended » Programs.

Today I wanted to install the evd library for R but somehow failed with such an error message:

Today Opera Software released version 9 of their webbrowser. This version comes with an integrated Bittorrent client, ad blocker and site specific preferences (et al.). The browser has a new rendering engine that also passes the ACID2 test.

Giles Turnbull forwarded on O'Reilly's Mac DevCenter Blog a request by Kiwi's developer Matt Ronge for some features people want in their e-mail client.

Yesterday short downtime of claimID was announced, making people curious with

Just a small pattern is use all the time for writing HTTP requests that work