Author Archives: Tsukasa

About Tsukasa

The fool's herald.

More touching things

If you know me for a while then you probably recall one thing: I simply love touchscreens. I like the idea of interacting with applications by flinging my greasy fingers on a display. One thing I really really loved was … Continue reading

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Mandatory profiles w/XP

Mandatory profiles are an ideal way of keeping a complete set of workstations in sync in regard of their visual appearance and settings. One thing I was stuck at: Whenever I copied a profile and renamed the NTUSER.DAT to NTUSER.MAN the profile simply wouldn’t load the preferences from it, resulting in ugly window decorations, empty start menus etc. Why is that? The reason lies in the permissions on HKCU. To circumvent this undesired effects you can use Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> User Profiles -> Copy To… … Continue reading

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It’s all his fault

Fossel wanted me to demonstrate my dormant, probably nonexistent abilities. So here we go… [audio://tsukasa.jidder.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/londonbridge.mp3] It actually isn’t that bad… well… if you know what I mean by bad… like… me playing… like yesterday… like… aww…

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My new favorite toy

…hardware-wise is probably the M-Audio KeyRig 49 MIDI Controller. What, you might ask, Tsukasa and music? Yeah, that’s quite a shock. But I really enjoy venturing into new stuff and doing application development all the time is wearing me out … Continue reading

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Winforms in Mono

I hope I don’t have to emphatize how much of a Mono fanboy I am at this point 🙂 . Today I had one of these “Wow” moments Microsoft wanted me to give with Vista (they failed miserably, btw) when … Continue reading

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del.icio.us Firefox Extension for FF3

An alpha version has been posted to the tech group, so if you want to give it a try, join the group and download the file 🙂 .

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Now that’s what I call true!

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? – Ernest Hemingway

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Workaround for nVidia Linux driver TV-out scaling problem

If you’re using a GeForce 8×00 graphics card and the binary blob from nVidia you’ll may notice that the picture on your TV is slightly larger than the area the TV can display; a part of your desktop will be … Continue reading

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Adobe Air for Linux

A test version of Adobe’s Air for Linux is available for public consumption now. Tweet-r as well as the Pownce client work fine, there are some visual problems with alpha channels, though. It is great to see that Adobe does … Continue reading

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Fruitless?

Composing music can be a very fruitless and hard thing to do. Especially so when all your music talent lies in being able to play the pianica a bit, but that’s about it then. Thankfully there are several programs out … Continue reading

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Cell-phones

You should use cell-phones to make or receive calls, not for listening to tasteless music on public transportation. Nobody else shares your awful taste of music.

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Monodevelop no longer broken

Yeah, I don’t really know what’s different now. A fresh checkout from trunk, a quick compile and Monodevelop is back in action. It is actually the first version I’m using in a long time, I’ll try to get a little … Continue reading

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Moe~ !!

More nice game-related (and unrelated) pictures on the artist’s website 🙂 .

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Quick hint: Use SharpDevelop more often

There are quite a number of things that were stripped from Microsoft’s proud Visual Studio Express series. One of them being the resource editor in C++, another one being a buttload of templates for your project type. Like… let’s say… … Continue reading

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Keepin’ it TLD

Jahahaha, diese wunderschöne (?) Seite ist nun auch über eine TLD zu erreichen: tsukasa.eu grüßt! Bisher ist das Ganze im Prinzip nur eine Weiterleitung, aber mal schauen, wenn ich Jidder mit Pizza und Cola bestechen kann, gibts evtl. die passenden … Continue reading

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