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Hi, I'm Iljitsch van Beijnum. Here on iljitsch.com I publish articles and post links about a range of topics.

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DAB: mijn eerste digitale radio

Alles in het leven is tegenwoordig digitaal, maar de radio is eigenlijk niet veranderd sinds de invoering van FM in de jaren '50. Maar als we dit promotiefilmpje van een jaar geleden mogen geloven is de radio nu ook hard op weg om digitaal te worden! Dat wilde ik zelf wel eens horen, dus gister heb ik mijn eerste digitale radio gekocht.

Volledig artikel / permalink - geplaatst 2015-06-04

Oude windmolen

Image link - posted 2015-06-03 in

→ User agents of change

Allen Pike, "crafter of fine software", writes about how insane browser user agent strings have gotten. Case in point, the mobile version of Edge, Microsoft's new cutting-edge browser:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 10.0; Android 4.2.1; DEVICE INFO) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0

That is to say, Microsoft Edge claims to be every computing platform ever conceived - except for Internet Explorer.

The nasty thing with all this useless nonsense that the browser sends to the server for every request is that it takes up often precious upstream bandwidth. On a slow DSL or 3G link this can really slow things down.

Permalink - posted 2015-05-31

The hell that is Disk Utility

A while back, I gave my sister a 1 TB 2.5" USB HDD for backing up her Mac using Time Machine. But somehow she couldn't perform backups anymore lately. The drive contained two volumes: a regular one and an encrypted one. The regular one wouldn't mount and Disk Utility wouldn't repair it.

No big deal, just wipe the drive and start from scratch, I thought—assuming it's not a hardware problem. That was easier said than done. I ended up spending half the day yesterday just trying to repartition that stupid USB drive.

Full article / permalink - posted 2015-05-31

→ I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

I felt a queazy mixture of pride and disgust as our lure zinged out into the world.

It is way too easy to get bad research published and covered in the media, especially about nutrition.

Permalink - posted 2015-05-29

Review: the Braun Oral-B PRO 6000 electric toothbrush—with bluetooth!

I'll spare you the details, but I recently needed to up my game in the toothbrushing department. I've been brushing my teeth with an entry-level Oral-B electric toothbrush for almost a decade, but I thought I could do better with a more advanced one that provides a warning when you brush too hard. (This can damage your gums.) Turns out there's now a model that has bluetooth. After all, everything is better with bluetooth.

Full article / permalink - posted 2015-05-29

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