Posts from the blog archive.
Found this link in the http://thisweekintech.com/ show notes (and heard about it on the podcast episode 24). http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050921-5337.html Although I don’t play World of Warcraft, I think that’s just a fantastic twist to the game.
Ok, it’s not quite as bad as the title makes out.. well actually, yes, I guess it is. Just had the NTL bill through for this month and it’s about 50% more than normal - the reason for this is that they’ve decided to go from billing 1 month in arrears for …
I’ve been playing around with a few voice over IP products for my powerbook just recently and it has to be said that some of them are pretty good. I tried iChat AV as that seemed like the obvious choice because it comes free with Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4) and since I tried it a …
It seems the south east coast of America is getting a bit of a hammering from storms at the moment. We had Hurricane Katrina at the end of August which devastated New Orleans and now it seems that Hurricane Rita is about to hit Texas around the Houston area within the next few …
This assumes the following conditions: the Linux gateway is forwards all outgoing traffic after rewriting the source address as the external IP (i.e NAT) the incoming policy is to drop all packets unless they’re related to an existing connection. Both clients are running …
Just found a link to http://sxc.hu/ - stock.xchng - whilst trying to find some stuff on CSS and layouts. Also another site that I’ll be looking into is http://www.sitepoint.com/ which has a fair bit about CSS layout. Not sure I’ll buy the book that’s on there, …
Looking for a new house? Check out On One Map - very clever. Thanks to Andy for the link.
The primary drive failed in one of my servers - luckily since it was using mirrored drives the system carried on running until I could get PoundHost to replace it. However, since it was the primary drive when it was replaced the system wouldn’t boot and they had to use a …
Found Graeme’s nerd test score in the Planet NottsLUG archive from back at the start of September. Took it (click the button below for your chance) and sorry Graeme, you’re not as big a geek as me (but is that something to be proud of?)
Sitting here in front of the laptop the last couple of nights I’ve noticed that for no apparent reason my iPod wakes up and the screen goes bright for a few seconds before going back to sleep again. At first I thought there was something on the clickwheel but it’s …