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 [...]
Fading curtains be damned, let’s save the daylight! The cows won’t know what’s hit ‘em and we’ll crash our cars but hell, let’s throw caution to the wind and git ourselves some extra sunshine lovin’ in the evenin’ time. All you have to do is sign the Queensland Parliament petition. It’s not [...]
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 [...]
Last week I finally actually bought some speakers for my computer/TV/anything with a headphone jack. I’ve had intentions of buying speakers for about two years now but just never got around to buying some. I didn’t want expensive ones, I wanted to spend under $50, and I didn’t care about 5.1 or anything. [...]
Well I haven’t seen too many spiders at our house since February, but the weather’s been getting warmer so I have been keeping my window open. Which is obviously a big mistake, since it’s so close to the ground and there’s leafy ground cover all over the place outside. Spider territory.
First I saw [...]
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 [...]
I’ve got an old Toshiba Portege 3110. Unfortunately the screen got broken, so now it’s a 40×25 display in text mode, or 400×600 in graphics mode. But I couldn’t help thinking that it would be a nice quiet, compact, low-power headless server at the least, and I haven’t seen GNOME or KDE [...]