Tag: technology
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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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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:
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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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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], …
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Making Progress
Claire's at work this Saturday morning, so I'm taking advantage of the oppertunity to finish the web site I'm developing for my dad - almost got a deployable version ready, which is nice, because I could do with getting his feedback on it and (assuming all's well with design and whatnot) deploying it "live" on …
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A Win For A Sensible Web Browser
I'm making progress with the people I work with. I've now got six of the eight folks in our office using Opera (they were formerly using Microsoft Internet Explorer, and some of them have tried Mozilla Firefox. Perhaps my recent spate of 'blog posts criticising Microsoft's browser - combined with the various hacks I've been …
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Dadadodo Poetry
Decided to have Dadadodo, which I used yesterday, to generate some poetry based on my vanity pages from the old version of AvAngel.com, my perpetually-under-redevelopment web site. Take a look at this:
My body, of the religion,
That of seeing myself in a moment,
Stares ahead.
Always been an existential touch,
And I banish this.
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Damn My Buggy Code!
Whoops! As a result of some buggy code I'd written, my recent 'blog entries didn't get cross-posted to LiveJournal, as they usually do - it turns out that the cross-posting code I wrote only works if I write my entire blog entry at once... and my recent entries have been quite long and so I've …
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Dadadodo: Exterminate All Rational Thought
Downloaded a copy of Dadadodo, a syntax-capable word disassociator. Simply put, word disassociation programs tend to work by taking a body of text and randomly shuffling chunks of it around. Dadadodo instead builds a probability tree based on the frequency at which words occur in sequencial relationships with one another, and uses this as it's …
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Something Cheery
I see that Slate, a magazine run by MSN (and owned entirely by Microsoft), recently published an article promoting the idea of not using Internet Explorer. Whoopsie, say Microsoft. Better yet, the article suggests using Mozilla Firefox, their main competitor in the browser market, instead.
Promised you something cheery. There it is. -
Software Projects In The Context Of Swings
Eons old, but I rediscovered it today while tidying up my hard drive, so I thought I'd share it with you all:
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God Violates Intel Trademark
It's all news, today! Lots of fascinating little stories and nothing about me. I mean, who's blog is it anyway?
According to The Register, the authoritive source on such matters, God may have infringed upon Intel's intellectual property. Only moderately funny, but nice and geeky.
In other news, I hear that AMD are planning to release a …