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I never realised how much I hated floppy disks until today. They’re slow, clunky and unreliable. It should be a simple matter to transfer a 1.1Mb RAID card firmware update to a machine with no O/S but no.. first the floppy drive in my PC doesn’t have the power …
Bought a small paddling pool for the kids today - 6ft diameter, 25 inches high. Got it home from B&Q and found that it was more the kind of thing you fill up and leave out for the summer than a 10 minute fill and empty when you’re done sort of pool. It takes a long time …
We popped over to North Wales (Llandudno) last weekend with barely 18 hours warning. Note to new visitors - we’ve been there before.. see 26 July 2003 for more. It was Friday evening and we just figured we’d get away from the mess of a gutted bathroom in the early …
Windows Update says there’s a critical update for Windows. Critical to me implies that it’s absolutely vital to the smooth running of your PC. The description of the update left me wondering so I took a couple of screenshots of character map before and after the …
When attempting to make a slave disk into a master disk (and remove the previous master), it always helps to look at the documentation for the correct manufacturer and model of disk.
Ok, so they’re not ant people as such.. just your average run-of-the-mill black ants. Unfortunately they were all over the dining room and downstairs toilet - not just normal ants but winged ones as well. After trying Nippon bait, B&Q ant spray (on the ones outside) and …
Managed to drop my powerbook (and bag) today and although the padding in the bag prevented any major damage, there’s now a bit of a dent in one corner where the bag landed upside-down on the one part that had virtually no padding. :( I really must invest in some kind of …
Just happened to walk past our oven at midnight and it said “24:00”. A minute later it was back to “0:01”. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a digital clock say 24:00 before, usually they run from 00:00 to 23:59.
We went for a daytrip to Gateshead yesterday with the main purpose of visiting an art gallery. On the way there, we passed the “Angel of the North” sculpture and stopped to take some pictures. There was also plenty to take pictures of down by the river near the art …
Updated my network programming tutorial to answer a question that someone emailed me about it. Tried to compile the library on my mac last night and found that half the makefile was wrong, some of the includes didn’t exist on OSX and that you have to use ranlib on the .a …