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Dag's home page
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I am a Doctoral Student in economics (since August 2001) at the Norwegian Building Research Institute ("Byggforsk"). My plan is to develop theoretical methods for measuring productivity and efficiency, and apply these on the building industry. Key terms are DEA and the Malmquist index. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
Hopefully these pages will reflect both my research and my two hobbies: Computer programming and Politics.
The pictures from the conference I attended in Oviedo (Spain) is here. Mail me if you want me to send you a higher resolution version of the pictures. The ones on these pages are downsampled to save space and download time.
Computer programs I have created (Freeware for Win32):
HardLinkNew (August 2002). For Windows2000/Xp with NTSF only. It allows you to select a file and create a hard link (alias/shadow) to this file. A hard link is not the same as a shortcut. It is more like a creating another file name for the same file, without creating a pointer to a specific location on the hard drive. Two big limitations: The hard link must be created on the same drive as the original file, and the drive has to be a local drive. Notice that NTSF does reference counting with hard links, so if you want to delete a file physically from your hard drive you must delete both the original file and all hard links. Graphical interface, but if you provide both original file name and hard link file name (with full paths) as command line parameters, hardlink.exe does as ordered and then closes.
BringNew version (August 2002) This program has one single function: Start it, click "Bring!", and it will fetch the websites on its (user definable) list. This is very useful if you periodically want to keep up with whats new on a series of web sites. Bring does this by remote controlling MS Internet Explorer.
PowerMagnifier This program is a electronic magnifying glass. I use PowerMagnifier and MS Powerpoint when I do presentations with a LCD projector. PowerMagnifier is not only a useful tool to make small details visible, but also magnify the parts of the current slide I want my audience to focus on.
Update: This program was reviewed and accepted September 20th, 2001 on the Tucows site, and the early version (with the premature version number 1.0) got 4 cows (out of 5 possible). Not bad for the version they looked at. The first 70 days 875 people downloaded it from Tucows! See this link for more.
PowerMagnifier was September 24th, 2001 chosen as "Tool of the Week" by Memory Lane Computers.
PowerMagnifier was November 19th, 2001 chosen as "Download of the day" by World Village (See this link).
DView This small program is useful as an external viewer for e.g. Windows Commander. It shows the following formats: Jpeg, Gif (inc. animated Gif), Bmp and Ico. It needs image name (with path and extension) as a parameter. The only user interfase is that [ESC] exits, and the arrow keys move the program form in the direction indicated.
DagsPageNumbers (User Interface in Norwegian). This is a PDF file with a twist. If you open it in Acrobat Creator (not reader!) it lets you add page numbers to precreated PDF files. This can be useful if you are compiling many smaller pdf files into on big pdf file, and some of the files lack page numbers. It ask you for which pdf file to add page numbers to, what page number it should start with, and whether the page number should be on the left, centre or right part of the page.Embedded JavaScript in the pdf file downloadable from here implements this. Notice that the pdf files remain 100% pure native Acrobat format, no JavaScript gets transferred (unless it is included in your original pdf files).
NameAndUptime v2New Version! This program uses the windows API to find out how long the system has been up (and shows the network name of the computer in the title of its form). Notice that the information provided does not depend on installing or running this program before you start the system, it gets the information hot from Windows. It is always exiting to see how long you can get windows to run without crashing. My new personal record is 13 days and 7 hours with Windows 2000 workstation ... but I always install a zillion tools and applications on my systems.
Update: NameAndUptime v1 was September 18th, 2001 selected by the Norwegian netbased computer magazine "Digi.no" as software pick of the day ("Dagens Nettjuvel" in Norwegian). See this link (Norwegian text) for details.
1000EyeBalls This program benchmarks your systems 2D performance (pure Blitting) under DirextX. On my home computer (933 Mhz PIII with Geforce2Mx) and with 16bit colordepth I get 85 frames per second (=Vsync). On my work computer (16 bit color) I get 24 frames per second. Find out if your computer can keep up in 2D!!
This program was reviewed and accepted September 20th, 2001 on the Tucows site, and the early version (with the premature version number 1.0) got 4 cows (out of 5 possible). Not bad for the version they looked at. The first 70 days 875 people downloaded it from Tucows! See this link for more.
NameAndUptime v1 was September 18th, 2001 selected by the Norwegian netbased computer magazine "Digi.no" as software pick of the day ("Dagens Nettjuvel" in Norwegian). See this link (Norwegian text) for details.