Archive for October, 2004
Outsourcing – Is it such a bad thing ?
Saturday, October 16th, 2004making it a business
Interesting quote from John Clegs: “Well, this is the scenario, interest rates are still quite low, you have highly skilled workforce at your fingertips, a number of technologies are gaining momentum and the cost of technology is dropping. What better time to start a business ! With the right help you should [...]
replace a simple image with CSS formating
Friday, October 15th, 2004use XML to create images
Stolen / researched from comments in Antipixel –> Steal These Buttons.
You should see an “image” on the right hand side that points at the RSS / RDF / ATOM feed for this blog. Usually, this is an image, but I’ve replaced it with CSS coding. See here for examples [...]
Google Desktop
Friday, October 15th, 2004Google your Desktop
The download page is here. There’s some screenshots here.
The idea is that you can search your personal items as easily as you search the Internet using Google. Traditional computer search software uses indexes that are updated on a regular schedule (i.e. daily, hourly, etc). Google Desktop Search updates continually for most [...]
JWH – 4th term as PM of Australia
Sunday, October 10th, 2004Howard is not Hitler
To equate this fourth election victory with a loss of the concept of ‘fair go’ and traditional Australian values is emotive clap trap and exhibits the short term memory problems of those who despise Howard.
When Howard was elected in 96, he talked of a return to traditional Australian values including ‘mateship’ – [...]
Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
Thursday, October 7th, 2004a mainframe under your desk
Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecture. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
Has low hardware and software requirements..
From the FAQ:“A Pentium 200 with [...]
Politicians as co-workers
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004George Bush: project leader ??
From George Bush as programming project leader:“If there’s one thing that seasoned programmers know, it’s that projects never go as planned, and course correction is critical. Even worse, the programmers in the trenches know how the project is going, and aren’t inspired when things carry on as if nothing is wrong. [...]
