Category: Info. Tech.
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Ubuntu Forums – HOWTO: Autostart Folding at Home at startup
Ubuntu Forums – HOWTO: Autostart Folding at Home at startup Useful page on getting Folding at Home (http://folding.stanford.edu) running on Ubuntu. It works for Hoary as well as Warthog. I really should get off my backside and make a package up.
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bit-tech.net | Real Wood iPod by ZapWizard
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
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A raw unbridled opinion on the up and coming XBox 360 and PS3’s
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.
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Yet another: Warning over unpatched IE bug | The Register
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…
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bit-tech.net | Bizarrely real buildings
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…
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Likely speed rates for DSL
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
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Sandisk 1GB miniSD card
Well the miniSD card arrived and is now living in the smartphone :D. This should hopefully make it good for transferring files around and mp3 playing. Now all I need do is move all the internal applications to live on the miniSD rather than the phones “ram/flash” so that it has more ram to run…
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WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) trouble completeing downloads using BITS
If you like me found that your WSUS server was not downloading all update files successfully and had some issues sorting it out. A google or three might return a result like below 1. ?%programfiles%\Update Services\tools\osql\osql.exe? -S servername\WSUS -E -b -n ?Q ?USE SUSDB update tbConfigurationC set BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1? (note: substitute your WSUS server name for…
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Apple Update their webstore.
Changes noticed as follows: No more normal iPods (grey scale) – Photo iPod’s reign supreme (photo dropped from name) $600 for 60G iPod Photo. iMac price cuts (yay) Things I noticed for the first time: Weird things that allow you to personalise and colourise your iPod Shuffle Things they didnt update: Powermac G5 macMini (boo…