Year: 2004
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If I Were An STD…
If I were an STD, I would be...
Which STD would you be? -
Ferreting Out Piracy
CNet News has a story on the BSA's attempts to educate children that copyright evasion and piracy is wrong, with the help of their new cartoon mascot - a ferret (shown).
And yes, I've used the picture of their new mascot without their permission. <wink>
Is a ferret really the best mascot they could think of...? -
Thrashing
Thrashing is a computer science term referring to an undesirable occurrence in multiprocessing systems.
When a processor is given multiple jobs to do, it services them a little each in a round-robin fashion (assuming that no priority system is in effect), until each is done. This is, of course, actually significantly less efficient than doing each … -
How To Keep Up With The Latest Happings On Scatmania (or What Are All Those Pretty Buttons?)
If you're looking for a way to keep up-do-date with the latest Scatmania happenings, it's now really really easy. I've enhanced my weblog with a heap of useful syndication tools that make keeping track of my latest activities a doddle, even for those of you who are unenlightened and can still be caught using an …
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1984 Revisited: What If Apple Took The ‘Microsoft Route’
Daring Fireball has an article about "Apple vs. Microsoft" with a difference. Contrary to many, he argues that if Apple had taken the 'Microsoft route' in 1984, with their hardware and software (significantly superior to IBM-PC platforms running Microsoft software), by licensing the platform, they wouldn't necessarily be the market leader today. It's a well-written …
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Weather Situation Unclear For Weekend’s Parachuting
As you may know, I'll be doing a crash course in parachuting - hopefully climaxing in a solo freefall - next weekend, to celebrate my (finally) getting a degree, courtesy of my dad. The weather reports don't look too favourable, though - potentially stormy at the end of this week. Hmmph. We'll see. It'll take …
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Windows Security
Just recieved the following error message from Windows, while trying to connect to a shared directory elsewhere on the network... have never seen one like it before, so I thought I'd share it with you:
Oh, so now I'm a hacker? Thanks, Windows. -
Dan Breaks The Internet… Again
Whoops. You'd have thought I'd have learnt my lesson when I fucked around with BIND last year, and 'broke' a small portion of the internet, but no. I managed to 'break the internet' again while playing with the Domain Name System settings on big. That's why Scatmania was inaccessible for the last day or so …
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Bushism Of The Day
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people - and neither do we."
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Painful Work Patterns
This is actually getting quite painful. I've now been at work for 13 hours straight, and for a total of 40 hours so far this week. Still; next week should be marginally better.
The knackeredness I can deal with. What's nasty is that I'm not seeing as much of Claire as I'd like. -
I’m Surrounded By Idiots
Conversation with a co-worker, who shall remain nameless:
Her: Is anybody any good at Fireworks?
Me: Yeh; you just light the blue touchpaper and run. But seriously, you ought'a be using Corel Photo-Paint.
(I wander over to her desk, and see that she's working with a bitmapped image of our logo - she's trying to remove some of … -
Computer Hardware For Sale: Bargain Prices
Overclockers Australia is running an article, collecting together advertisements for computer hardware and software over the last quarter of a century. I've pulled out a few of my favourites:
1989 Tandy 500 MC Professional - only $8499; VGA graphics, 386/20MHz, 2MB RAM - this computer's a real beast: and what a bargain! Late-80's Portable Computer … -
Doom 3 Screenshots
Mmm... There's some Doom 3 screenshots online...
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64-Bit Columbine
Toy... Phill from work has gotten himself a sweet new AMD64 processor; I went round to help him install it after he thought he'd broken it during assembly (turns out he'd missed a power lead and hadn't fully locked the processor into it's socket). Jeez; those 64-bit processors have a heap of pins (as one …
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Reb’s Back
Looks like I am making a regular reader out of Reb, my ex-. She posted another comment today. This time I'd improved the trace algorithm already (mostly out of curiosity). She's connecting from her Tiscali IP (80.40.255.212). There's no (meaningful) firewall running on the connection, and ports 439 (DASP), 445 (Microsoft-DS) [that could be interesting], …