Archive for April, 2005
« Previous EntriesGetting Space Exploration Right
Friday, April 29th, 2005This article on Space Daily shows how NASA’s policy, before and after the manned lunar landings, has gone from brilliant to bumbling. The message is that the beaureaucrats need to return to the mission-oriented planning and direction of the Apollo era, if humanity is ever going to get back to the Moon, and then to [...]
Beginners guide to Firefox
Friday, April 29th, 2005A usefull Google Search for beginners. Specifically, look at www.bytecave.net/anders/guide/guide.htmlA little out of date; For example, there’s a reference to the extension IE View not being available for FF 1.03. I’m not too sure how, but version 0.87 (which I’m running now) loaded into my FF. I also use the BlogThis extension.www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ [...]
Colour picker color picker
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005wellstyled.comcolorschemer.comwww.triplecode.comRalf’s Color Wheel
Very old Review of Color Pickers
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Apple V Choice
Monday, April 18th, 2005” Choice just isn’t in my Mac vocabulary.”
mac enthusiast Brian D Foy buys aPC, enters a world of choice and gets all confused…
“Dell lets me pick a CPU too. You mean there is more than one? [....] I don’t even think I know what I have in my, um, G4 except that it’s a G4 [...]
Successfully Stream a PDF through HTTPS
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005The ability to send binary output from any URL, even when text is expected based on the page name is a very valuable tool for architectures that try to prevent messy temporary files. Images, archives and binary documents are all resources that are easily calculated on the fly based on user input and need to [...]
Cleaning keyboards
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005real computers, real bugs
Researchers have found that hospital keyboards harbor bacteria and super-germs. There is a lot of computer use in hospitals and they’re finding it really difficult to sterilize them.Now, I’m sure the A+ Cerification exam textbooks actually suggest that you can put your keyboard in the dish washer. I was skeptical at first, [...]
Rover plays dead, is dead
Monday, April 11th, 2005like watching a car crash in progress
Great Britain once had the second-largest automotive industry in the world. After five decades of clueless management, militant unions, poor workmanship, government meddling and square (sorry, ‘Quartic’, steering wheels, only one British-owned “volume” car manufacturer, MG Rover, was left – and it looks like it’s all over [...]
Johnny Cash
Monday, April 11th, 2005Tex, over at Whackingday.com, likes his motorbikes, so I know he’s a decent bloke. As well, he’s confessed an interest in one of country music’s icons. So I sent him the following note (I’ve tidied up some of the worst of the spelling mistakes):
What I liked about Johnny Cash even when I was [...]
Categories in blogger III
Thursday, April 7th, 2005part I here, and part II here. When I publish too many times to my main blog via email, blogger is either ignoring me or sending me rude messages – it appears to be having some problems with receiving too many mails, either from me or to my blog or both.
I’ve sent them a [...]
Linksys wifi router
Thursday, April 7th, 2005When 54 is not really 54
When someone is trying to sell you 802.11g equipment, they’ll tell you that it works at “up to 54 Mbps”. The truth is, you will never get anything like 54 Mbps. If you’re getting 20 Mbps, you’re doing well.The same with 802.11b… Even when you’re not sharing bandwidth with other [...]
offline listening aka podcast
Thursday, April 7th, 2005Receive Podcasts Using Your PCRequires XP, Windows Media Player 10 (or similar) and an MP3 player. Just in case you aren’t familiar with podcasting, quite simply it’s a process for distributing audio files using RSS 2.0. A podcaster creates an audio recording, posts it to a server somewhere, and references the audio file as [...]
Cheaper versions of MS-OFFICE
Thursday, April 7th, 2005In Australia, Microft offers major discounts on MS Office products if you qualify for an academic discount.According to the eligibility criteria, the discount is available for full or part-time students, home-schooled students and full or part-time faculty or staff of an accredited educational institution. That’s for a full packaged product, the so-called Academic Version of [...]
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