Archive for July, 2005

bit-tech.net | Real Wood iPod by ZapWizard

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

bit-tech.net | Real Wood iPod by ZapWizard
A seriously sweet modification to the ipod - replacement of the plastic cover with wood. Real genuine biological wood from a tree wood.
Simply amazing stuff.
M

A raw unbridled opinion on the up and coming XBox 360 and PS3’s

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

I found this raw and unbridled opinion on the up and coming XBox 360 and PS3’s on the wibbly wobbly web. It does not bode well for microsoft and sony who’se penny pinching in the design of their up and coming next gen consoles renders them somewhat neutered.

Yet another: Warning over unpatched IE bug | The Register

Monday, July 4th, 2005

Warning over unpatched IE bug | The Register
It looks like internet explorer has yet another bug. No fix available for it, so may I suggest that in the interim you switch to something like firefox or one of the other browsers that dont seem to have as many bugs (and when they are found they [...]

bit-tech.net | Bizarrely real buildings

Monday, July 4th, 2005

bit-tech.net | Bizarrely real buildings
It seems that the next Gotham Racing (3) will feature some awesome graphics that are already causing a stir in the media. It would seem that some journo’s have cried “fake” and in response more screenshots showing wireframe were released.
All I have to say is “Wooooooooooah” in true neo stylings :D.
M
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A scratchy ticket to test and tempt you

Monday, July 4th, 2005

It seems that the mob who what make money from scratchy tickets have released a new one - “Monopoly” based extended play scratchy.
Woah I expect that they will make a fortune in unclaimed prizes ;). It has 12 rolls of the dice to get you round the board and see what you do and [...]

Australia Post - The cheapest way to post stuff

Monday, July 4th, 2005

Well I had the misfortune of thinking that a package 67grams heavier than the maxium allowed by the 500gm sachel. I figured that it would be cheaper to post this package using a little tuff bag and posting it based on weight.
A 500g pre paid satchel costs $4.10
A 3kg pre paid satchel costs $8.90
Guess what [...]

Likely speed rates for DSL

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

Theoretical Speed Capabilities
Useful page to see what speeds you are likely to be able to achieve with ADSL2 and ADSL2+ based on both distance and line attenuation.
M

April Winchell: Multimedia

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

April Winchell: Multimedia
Some interesting stuff - check out the Paul Anka cover of Smells like teen spirit - its surreal.
M

EBAY: Stuff that sucks about it

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

You know what really sucks about ebay - the fact that there is no way for you to pay your sellers fee’s using the eBay owned PayPal, how uselessly stupid is that? I’d say about 9 parts useless per 10.
Grrr >

Unexpected Outage

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Many humble apologies for unexpected outage experienced today. It seems that someone decided that it would be fun to plug as many electrical appliances into the same circuit as my router and server, rendering the whole thing completly uncontactable for about 8 hours (when I valiantly returned power to everything that required after being very [...]