Tag: geeky
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'Nena' - Christmas Comes Early For Dan
I thought I'd say a little bit about my new home desktop computer, because it occurs to me that I hadn't said anything about it yet.
Dualitoo, my PC of the last few years, kicked the bucket on Friday a few weeks back, at a most inopportune time - I was due to write heaps of … -
OMG Child Pr0n (or is it?)
What a mess this is turning into! I am of course referring to the UK-wide internet censorship of a Wikipedia page (the one about the Scorpions album, Virgin Killer - if that last link doesn't work, you're among those affected).
The thinking is, according to the Internet Watch Foundation, that the cover of the 1976 album … -
Environmental Awareness and Yes, I'm Still Busy
The Technium's just hosted a seminar on environmental awareness. Walking past the conference room a few minutes ago, I noticed that the folks running the event had managed to leave running the projector and all of the lights, despite the fact that it had ended some time ago. Ah, the irony.
Went to a céilidh at … -
Fibre Optics Are Cool
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This is how I like my downloads to look. -
Games I Have Been Playing Recently
There's a couple of computer games I've played recently that I thought I'd share with you so that you, too, can go play them and waste all your free time (hopefully you've got more free time than I do to be wasted!).
RUCKINGENUR II
Free (as in beer) to download and play - download it here. Windows … -
SSL Client Certificate Authentication In Ruby On Rails
I've been playing with using client-side SSL certificates (installed into your web browser) as a means to authenticate against a Ruby on Rails-powered application. This subject is geeky and of limited interest even to the people who read this blog (with the possible exception of Ruth, who may find herself doing exactly this as part …
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ICANN Invent A Whole Universe Of Mess
In case you hadn't heard/didn't care, ICANN have authorised the creation of arbitrary privately-controlled top-level domains. So what does this mean?
Well, the happy hippy theory fun about it all is that suddenly there's the capacity for pretty much anybody (well, anybody with a particularly deep wallet, and - for now - a demonstrable business plan) … -
Firefox 3 "Download Day"
Downloaded your copy of Mozilla Firefox 3 yet to help them make the world record? I've been using Firefox 3 since the early betas and I've got no qualms about recommending it wholeheartedly. The awsomebar is simply that: awesome, the speed and memory usage have become far better than the previous version, and the care … -
Abnib Quotes
It only occurred to me the other week that there are lots of people who would probably want to know about Abnib Quotes - people, even, that are quoted on it - that don't. And that's probably my fault for not blogging about it.
So yeah - there's an Abnib Quotes. It replaces the long-defunct RockMonkey … -
The Danville Public Service Announcement
I don't visit Facebook often. In fact, I usually only log on once or twice a month to clear out the billions of requests to install applications (and block those applications) that people don't seem to have noticed that I never accept, or to check up on a mis-placed phone number or e-mail address for …
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Well, That Was Quite A Night
I finally sobered up sometime this afternoon, right in the middle of some Perl programming. I spent some time staring at all of the symbols and regexen in the code. To be honest, I think I preferred it when I was drunk.
More if and when I can be bothered. For now... back to the pub … -
Fun With A Nintendo DS
This post starts very geeky, but becomes about computer games later on. Feel free to scroll down three paragraphs if you like computer games but don't like computer hardware hacking.
My M3 Perfect and some related hardware arrived today. Basically, it's a SD card reader that plugs into a Game Boy Advance slot (which are found … -
Windows XP Multiuser Remote Desktop
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Windows XP Multiuser Remote Desktop.
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What Is A Door And Why Do I Care
Geeky post with little value to most people: ignore if you don't want to learn a little about the history of the BBS, "Doors", and the subculture around them. This post is written for folks like Ruth, who seemed interested, and others, who seemed possibly-interested.
Before about 1994, even the few of us who had been … -
Firefox Finally Appeals
As you may all know, I'm a die-hard supporter of the Opera web browser, despite many of my friends now claiming that Firefox is superior. I've been following the Mozilla project for a long while (haven't we all), and on the many occasions I've tried Firefox (and it's grandparents) I've always been unimpressed. It's always …