tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192377182011-04-22T00:36:19.677+01:00Kevannoreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1146741301307924952006-05-04T11:55:00.000+01:002006-05-04T12:15:01.326+01:00

I have just found the "The Daily WTF" via this post: Outsourced Property ValueAs a programmer I see this type of code every so often and it really does make me wonder what was going through the programmers mind.

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It looks like Amazon have come up with the first sensibly priced remote storage service. They have called it S3. It is 15 cents per gig. per month, and a 20 cent per gig charge for transfer into or out of the storage. The nice thing about this is that you charged for exactly the amount of storage you are using and not in preset big chunks that other services have. Also other services are only

Kevannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1141984805014872182006-03-10T09:54:00.000Z2006-03-10T10:00:05.033Z

I have just stumbled across these early maps of ARPANET. On the December 1969 map there are just four nodes; SRI, UTAH, UCSB & UCLA. It is quite fascinating to see the early growth.

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We recently retired our old kitchen computer which was acting as a print server for our HP LaserJet 3300. The 3300 was attached to the network via a JetDirect box. On the, now retired, PC I had installed all the software that came with the printer and print server and then shared out the printer so that other PCs on the network could print to it. When it came to setting up my wifes iBook to use

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A great little video on how caffeine works, and why you want another cup every two hours.

Kevannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1140686201444709432006-02-23T09:14:00.000Z2006-02-23T09:24:05.886Z

I got chance to have a longish play with an I-Tech Bluetooth virtual keyboard recently and I am quite suprised on just how useable it is. The only issue is that even though it can talk to your PDA/phone wirelessly, you still need to be able to see the PDA/phone display so you can't leave them in your pocket.But then I came across Light Blue Optics and their matchbox sized projector. Combine the

Kevannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1140453955926881702006-02-20T16:40:00.000Z2006-02-20T16:45:55.926Z

I find that wearing gloves makes it difficult to use my 3rd generation iPod as quite often my dry gloves would not register with iPod touch sensitive buttons. So on these cold winter mornings I have taken to using my tongue to operate the skip to next track button. I tried using my nose but I found it more difficult to select the button!

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Combining two functions into a single device can be usefull. But I feel that the joining of a mouse and voip phone into a single device is not combination that would prove usefull. The Sony VN-CX1 does this very thing, and I am left wondering what you do if you need to use your mouse while on the phone.

Kevannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1139851922558519882006-02-13T17:23:00.000Z2006-03-10T23:52:31.220Z

It would seem that with the current build (5270) of Windows Vista just about every operation you do (think basic things like starting the Task Manager) result in a Permit / Deny dialog asking you if you want to preceed. As a local administrator on the machine these prompts are just a pain in the behind. The solution is to change a setting in the Local Security Policy.More details are here: http:/

Kevannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1137420227908786142006-01-16T13:59:00.000Z2006-02-08T11:04:53.776Z

At the weekend I purchased a new Freeview STB, it was the highly rated Sony VTX-D800U. I did my usual trick of taking everything, except the manual, out of the box and plugging in all the cables into their approriate sockets.Everything just worked and I never needed to refer to the manual. The only thing that didn't work was the volume control on the remote. My previous Freeview STB's have had a

Kevannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1132844384443232812005-06-24T14:57:00.000+01:002005-11-24T15:03:28.760Z

I finally found the magic combination of words for google to lead me to this rewrite engine for IIS. For a while now I have wanted to have an equivalent to the Apache configuration line: Alias /wibble /scripts/wibble.php which allows me to hide php scripts inside URL’s that look like directory structures. The isapi_rewrite version is: RewriteRule /wibble(.*) /scripts/wibble.php$1 The

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I have just setup a server that needs to forward all mail to a relay host. This sort of setup should be easy using the default sendmail configuration files on FreeBSD, but after battling for a while with .mc files I decided to see if there was anything else out there. I found some relay only MTA’s and after trying out FreeBSD ports of nullmailer and esmtp, I found ssmtp which does everything I

Kevannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19237718.post-1139394911076590772005-03-12T17:33:00.000Z2006-02-08T10:35:32.600Z

After finishing the first mow of the garden this year, I decided that the mower engine needed a service. So with model numbers in hand it was off to the Briggs & Stratton web site to find service guides. It couldn’t have been easier and a couple of minutes later I had PDF’s to print out.Isn’t it great when companies get it, because I can’t remember the number of company web sites I have been to

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