Over some tasty lasagne with some friends last week, the conversation somehow prompted me to bring up Telstra’s new corporate blogs by a few of their employees as part of their attempts at friendly openness on nowwearetalking.com.au. My enthusiasm was dampened when the response was something like “what, so a bunch of employees have online [...]
Whooo! iinet recently upgraded their DSLAMs to allow full ADSL2+ connection (ergh, PDF) for those on the enabled exchanges. Which I gleefully happen to be. Modem Status Connected DownStream Connection Speed 17153 kbps UpStream Connection Speed 1023 kbps That’s right, 17.1 megabits per second. They have this little utility in the iiNet Toolbox, the online [...]
So it’s a month later and I still don’t have a new phone. I’ve gone through all my options at least three times since my last post on the subject, and haven’t done anything yet. I guess I just don’t like spending money. No, that’s wrong. I prefer wasting all my money by spending it [...]
There’s a heap of things I want to get done, but choosing to sit in front of the computer is really hard on days like today. The weather is perfect, and it seems like such a waste to sit inside working on my programmer’s tan when I have a convertible and the weather is amazing. [...]
I recently discovered dia, a little program for drawing diagrams of a bunch of different types. I found it while trying out Ubuntu linux, but it also works on Windows. I really like Dia, it doesn’t do as much as Visio or even SmartDraw, but I don’t even want or need the features they have. [...]
Hooray, books: Greetings from Amazon.com, We thought you’d like to know that we shipped your items, and that this completes your order. …etc… The following items were included in this shipment: Qty Item Price 1 Code Complete, Second Edition $31.78 1 Peopleware : Productive Proje $33.95 1 Rapid Development $23.10 1 The Best Software Writing [...]
The Cisco VPN Client Broke TCP/IP! We have some clients who use Cisco PIX firewalls, and to access their systems we need to logon using the Cisco VPN Client. Normally this is no problem — you just install the client, configure the VPN you’re connecting to and you’re outta there. But for some reason on [...]
I don’t know what the situation is like in turbo-consumer USA, but here in Australia lots of people, especially old-school IT people and smaller businesses, still like to build their own PCs from commodity parts when they need a new desktop or server box. That’s all fine and good fun when you’re building a box [...]
Google has released a web-based RSS reader and aggregator that is pretty nice. You can read all posts from all the feeds you subscribe to in a chronological order, or you can just read from a specific feed. It has lots of AJAX and a pretty smooth interface with shortcut keys that really speed up [...]
I use VBScript all the time unfortunately. It’s pretty handy, and it’s easy for beginners to get into. But it’s getting old and is really slow for doing web stuff, and really isn’t as flexible as C-style languages (like JScript and the newer C# and stuff). I can forgive it things like ReDim for arrays [...]