Author: malliemcg
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Sony PSP – A quick play
Sony have released the PSP in Australia, and i have recently had opportunity to play with one recently, I thought I would post a quick summary of my thoughts on it here. Unit: Surprisingly larger than expected and quite a bit heavier also. Screen: Amazingly vibrant, detailed and so easy to view, it is the…
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Vista, Intel IDF and the Mac OS X Intel transition.
While reading my atomic magazine which arrived earlier in the week (which happens to have as its main feature set articles on Windows Vista/Longhorn there was a coverage of the Intel Developer Forum going into details about up and coming chipsets specifically the i945 express chipset which features onboard graphics compatible with the Vistas Windows…
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Opera is now free.
The nice folks over at opera have freed opera for everyone. No more adverts and the like. I must admit that its behaviour is somewhat odd and will probably take a while to get used to, but it is nice to have choice as to running lots of browsers, especially seeing as its very secure…
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PC is just getting out of hand
Transforming a molehill into a mountain Now I have respect for other people’s religions but seeing something where there is nothing to see (in a picture of an icecream no less) is just beyond silly. The guy who complained about this is just stupid. What next – being prevented from eating bacon because the franchise…
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WordPress – Thoughts
Well I have been using wordpress on this site for a little while and I thought I should make a comment or two about it when I got the chance. Having been required to upgrade from an older version due to some security fixes, I must say I am impressed. It did not break my…
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Setting up wordpress on OS X Tiger (10.4)
Oh what fun and joy it was, but the site has now been successfully migrated from the old G3-300 to a shiny Mac Mini (1.42 w/ 1GB RAM) running Mac OS X 10.4 Some things that may help people who follow me in setting something like this up: 1) Migrating databases is icky. But there…
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iPod infestation almost dooms New Zealand | The Register
iPod infestation almost dooms New Zealand | The Register That explains the iPod Ad’s :P. M
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Why can’t I write to /home (Solaris x86 10) Solaris 2 FAQ Question 3.4
Solaris 2 FAQ Question 3.4 Having not played with SunOS (Solaris) for a long time, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to once agian refresh my skills with it. But I had forgotten this little gem: SunOS 5.x is delivered with the “automounter” enabled. The automounter is designed for NFS sites, to simplify maintenance…
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Live at Viiv – Alpha – Blog.CNET.com – CNET.com
Live at Viiv – Alpha – Blog.CNET.com – CNET.com Exqueese me – but what the hell is the “Viiv” brand intel is now parading supposed to mean exactly? They dont employ stupid people at intel, perhaps they could have come up with something that looked or sounded better than Viiv. :boggle:
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 – Problems
It seems that Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is having some issues with mscorsvw taking up 100% cpu usage – none of the currently available fixes to the problem seem to work – in fact I have no idea why its having suck problems :(. If you have the same error as below, please sign…