Niklas Saers
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$362 and nothing to show for it: inside the SeeAir Kickstarter scam

In March 2023, I backed the SeeAir Tankless Dive System on Kickstarter. Compact, battery-powered underwater breathing gadget. Polished renders, a slick video, spec sheets that looked legit. $362 for the dive unit and a couple accessories. Seemed fair.

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February 13, 2008 • Technology

Templates in Sharepoint

I was installing a set of templates on a sharepoint server I'm setting up for work, and I came accross these great instruction on how to install them, since I had the same problem as Matthew in the comments. I even learned that the command line has for-loops. I always assumed this shell had absolutely nothing. Now I just believe it's very limited. :-) zsh for Windows? (without Cygwin?)

February 7, 2008 • Music

Esbjerg Tidlig Ensemble in Jyske Vestkysten

ETE had a little note in Jyske Vestkysten today

February 1, 2008 • Work

Questions Dashboard Users ask

Reading more in The Dashboard Spy I found this great table of questions users ask and how you should answer them when it comes to designing dashboard:

February 1, 2008 • Technology

Pentaho

While Googling I found Pentaho, an open source BI suite that uses the same stack that I used for my last job: MySQL/JBoss/Tomcat/Eclipse. Great seeing there are more out there, and if you're starting up with BI and prefer OSS, check them out!

February 1, 2008 • Technology

No CoverFlow for shared iTunes libraries

I'm not a frequent user of CoverFlow, but now that I wanted to use it on my shared iTunes library in my living room from the Windows iTunes client I noticed that I cannot select neither CoverFlow nor in an album list. I'm stunned and looking forward to trying it out on my MBP

February 1, 2008 • Technology

Named Calculation expressions

Just a quick note on Name Calculations in SSAS, they need to be written in whatever SQL dialect the underlying DB engine (probably MS-SQL) understands. I wanted to make a Sales Margin calculation, and to avoid a Divide by Zero where sale price was zero, my code for this was:
<br /> CASE<br /> WHEN Sale<>0 THEN (Sale-Cost)/Sale<br /> ELSE 0<br /> END<br />
Never before have I needed four lines to do a simple IF. ;-)

January 31, 2008 • Technology

iTunes@work

These instructions are a great 5 minute guide to using iTunes at work. My mini at home already has SSH access enabled, so fire up Putty, make a tunnel, install the helper app and Boom! You've got music at work

January 28, 2008 • General

Mobile phone and smoke detector

This is just the weirdest. Not three minutes ago my Norwegian mobile phone that I haven't had turned on since christmas suddenly turned itself on, and just a second thereafter my smoke alarm went bananas. I can smell no smoke, no smoke outside, no smoke in the entrance, not anywhere. What's going on? Normally I would just assume it malfunctioned, but my mobile phone turned itself on! It shouldn't be able to do that??

January 26, 2008 • Technology

FrontRow updates

One of my pet project has been FrontRow and using my mini with an Elgato Hybrid and EyeTV as a media centre. At the moment its very quirky since there isn't much info on making FrontRow plugins, or so I thought. Yesterday I read about PyeTV, an EyeTV integration for FrontRow written in Python using FrontPython. Jay! I love Python! And all this while I had been betting to read about it at Alan's blog. But he got a girl, so jay for him as well. :-) I'm looking forward to having some time on my hands to use FrontPython and see if I can put together a SNES launcher from FrontRow, integrated with DarwiinRemote. :-) Check out Plugin101 for FrontPython on how to get started. Now, is anyone working on making a clone of the YouTube support that AppleTV has for FrontRow? BTW, check out Sapphire Browser that seems to have started it all

January 26, 2008 • Music

Big hands