Archive for March, 2006

Google Mars – Holy waste of time Batman

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Google Mars Google have released the latest in productivity destruction – Google Mars. Millions of businesses worldwide will cry out in pain as T1/E1′s light up in bandwidth chewing goodness that does what Google Earth does to imagry of our planet to mars! Sweet!

java sucks – An interesting article covering why java sucks

Monday, March 13th, 2006

 java sucks It also makes an interesting assertation that presently Java is actually not that bad, when compared to other programming languages. M

Can’t download that video? Now you can.

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Can’t download that video? Now you can. An interesting digg article that links to several sites and methods of grabbing that streaming video you just watched. M

Australia – So Where The Bloody Hell Are You?

Friday, March 10th, 2006

Australia – So Where The Bloody Hell Are You? Bugga me if this ad has not caused as much trouble as any I have seen, all over the little word bloody. If you want to see the ad click the link above, i think its rather entertaining and will get the type of tourist down [...]

Companies who SPAM you

Friday, March 10th, 2006

I have a company to add to the list. Twodollar.com.au after following their removal instructions and recieveing a you have been successfully removed email I have continued to recieve their promotional material via email. Therefore this company (www.twodollar.com.au) has been added to my personal list of companies who spam you because their removal system does [...]

plastk:net “Thats a chunky screen”

Friday, March 10th, 2006

plastk:net Now I am no stranger to large screens, one of my mates uses an LCD projector to set up a car simulator game, but I dont think he has near the pixel pushing power shown here. Its almost too big to use individually. M

ldopa.net » archive » how to install front row 1.2.1 and not destroy your mac

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

ldopa.net » archive » how to install front row 1.2.1 and not destroy your mac How to get front row working without causing your machine to malfunction and bypass the unnecessary and artificial restricions imposed by apple on this product.

kill -HUP $pid and when to use it

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

kill -HUP $pid sends a SIGHUP to the process with the process id $pid. This is useful for telling programs that listen for a HUP to re-read their configuration files so that you can seamlessly implement changes transparent to end users. Not all programs will re-read their config files when they recieve a SIGHUP . [...]

New Car – MY06 Volkswagen Golf 2.0 TDI

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

On the 25th of February I got the keys to a new VW Golf 2.0 Turbo Diesel. I must really thank several people for helping making this all happen! Noel Wright from Stratton Finance for sorting out everything with finance and his tireless efforts and MASSIVE patience to help make this all happen. I must [...]

shortText.com – Post information. Share it.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

shortText.com – Post information. Share it. Make use of free “little” usb sticks from trade shows! Slaxify it.