Archive for January 2009

Free Sportsradar SR3600 Software

Jan 25th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Geek's Home, Software Engineering

See the software in action
Download instructions and hardware requirements

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Power Factor and Compact Fluorescent Bulbs (CFL)

Jan 21st, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Environment, Geek's Home

What is the power factor?
What is the power factor of compact fluorecent bulbs?
Do manufacturers of compact fluorecent bulbs cheat with their promised energy savings?
Continue reading for answers to these questions.

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The HTML <IMG> tag and “Onload” event bugs in IE

Jan 18th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Software Engineering, Web

The problem: a blog post is supposed to show a temperature chart. The chart is served by a remote server, running SQL Reporting Services. The table with the temperature data contains 100,000s of rows and the server that hosts the SQL database and Reporting Services is an older Athlon box. Serving that image can take [...]

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