Concert des groupes Belges Nô et Lantez

Les photos du concert de Nô et Lantez sont dispos sur mon site...

Changez vos ampoules !

On entend régulièrement qu'il existe des ampoules plus économiques et respectueuses de l'environnement que les vieilles ampoules à filament que nous utilisons depuis des dizaines d'années. Mais que faire si on s'éclaire principalement à l'halogène ?

Hé bien, il existe une solution: les lampes LED qui peuvent remplacer les ampoules de ce type, ayant un soquet de type GU10 par exemple (l'éclairage des plafonds et luminaires usuels) ou MR16 (connecteur plus petit). Pas encore donné, entre 6 et 10€ pièce, mais leur durée de vie est généralement située entre 20.000 et 100.000 heures... Pour une consommation de 1 à 7 Watts... En plus, elles ne chauffent pas.

A bon entendeur ;-)

Quelques exemples:
http://www.dotlight.de/shop/product_info.php/cPath/203_212_329/products_id/1115
http://www.spotled.be/Spot-LED-5W-Edison-3-E27-GU10-FR.php
http://www.mbtronics.com/ledmr16.asp

Vous ne voulez plus d'annuaire téléphonique ?

Saviez-vous qu'en Belgique, 2 250 000 paquets contenant deux annuaires (pages blanches et pages jaunes) sont distribués chaque année dans les foyers ? Et que chaque paquet pèse environ 2,5 kg ? En gros, cela représente, tenez-vous bien, 5 625 000 kg de papier. N'oubliez pas que chaque tonne de papier produite dégage environ 500 kg de CO2.


Vous n'avez pas l'usage de ces deux briques de papier ? Ou vous voulez poser un geste en faveur de la planète ? C'est très simple, signalez à l'éditeur que vous ne voulez plus recevoir les annuaires, en surfant sur son site web, c'est réglé en 1 min.


http://www.1307.be/fr/jsp/1x07be_opt_out.jsp


où vous pouvez d'ailleurs aussi trouver les numéros de téléphone que vous recherchez.

Corvette ZR-1

Nissan GT-R

Wow, first tests of the Nissan GT-R start appearing. Not in Europe before 2009 though...

"Grass Gas" Shows Promise as Superefficient, Clean Fuel

Nice article from National Geographic about a better source than corn for producing ethanol:

Ethanol made from a prairie grass shows promise as a viable fuel that could be much more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient than corn ethanol, a new study says.

HighPoint RaidRocket 454 problem and solution

The other day, I got awaken by the dreaded beep of the RAID controler on my home server. One of the disk had failed. Not a problem I thought, RAID5 is supposed to cope with such issues. I launched the RAID management interface to know more about the problem, and clicked on Rescan. The computer seemed frozen for a minute or so, and the beep stopped. Afterwards, the failed disk got recognized again... until I clicked on rescan a second time. Big mistake. Two disks got flagged as failed and the array got disabled... After a reboot, the array was split in 2 identical arrays (same size, same name) but one with the first 6 disks, the other with the failed 2, both disabled. Only option presented by the RAID BIOS (hpt374): delete array. Not en option, as I didn't have any backup of that storage...
So, I stopped the computer and emailed the support, without much hope. To my great pleasure, I got a reply back, with a tool that would allow me to reconfigure the array as one entity, and access it again. And it worked :-)
So, I must say I'm very happy with Highpoint support, their answer was fast, precise and to the point. I already had issues with a Promise item and received nothing valuable from their support (asked to reboot and closed the call)...
Two thumbs up to Highpoint support!

The WWF has a cool tool to help you measure how many resources you consume, and gives you tips on how to reduce your impact on climate change.

Try it out!

Concert for WWF - January 12, 2007

Come in flocks to this concert, the benefits will be given to WWF.

 

Location: Salle 1180, 14 rue Robert Scott, 1180 Uccle

Starts at 20:00.

 

More info about Lantez: http://www.myspace.com/lantez

 

I don't know anything about the other group ;-)

Access a WinDev/HyperFile DB from ASP.Net

I spent some time figuring this out, so this might be useful to someone else...

Mission: access a WinDev DB through ODBC from a C# Web Service

Steps:

• download the ODBC drivers from windev: http://www.pcsoft.fr/st/telec/modules-communs-11/wx11_54b.htm;
• decompress the ZIP-encoded installer (twice) like this: http://www.vbfrance.com/infomsg_WINDEV-VB_34754.aspx;
• copy the DLL files to "%winroot%\system";
• manually create the ODBC driver in the registry like this: http://www.developer.com/db/print.php/3712461. Don't forget to also create an entry in the "CustomDriver" key under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC Drivers". The DLL to use in the registry is "WD110hfo.dll";
• create a DSN in the ODBC control panel using the newly created driver;
• in your code, use the traditional OdbcConnection object to use the DSN created above;

This should be it ;-)

Thanks WinDev for making our work so complicated...