Many of you out there will have already been subjected to my furious advocating, but for those who missed it: This coming Saturday the newly formed Ballarat Linux Users Group (BLUG), in conjunction with Linux Users Victoria (LUV) will be holding an install-fest and full day mini-conference. The day will be held at the University of Ballarat and […]
Gamer conspiracy theory
On a recent stumbling through the web, an article got me thinking again about first person shooters (FPS) and consoles. The article had said that, despite ‘elitist’ propaganda on the contrary, console controllers were no worse that a keyboard+mouse for FPS’ers. Now in the interests of being open, i should state straight up that I cannot, in any […]
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ASX RSS feed
Well I finally got around to ‘finishing’ another of the little projects I’d been playing with. This one is probably extremely boring to nearly everyone but me, but franklin I don’t really care, it was useful for me 🙂 Basically I whipped up a little site where you can pull Australian Stock (ASX) quotes, for any group of […]
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The Myth Monster
Well my all encompassing MythTV box is finally nearing completion! It still needs a little bit of new hardware (BIG HDD and new vid card) to go in, but its bascially done. It’ll show and record digital TV, has a pretty Web interface for when I forget to tape something before I leave the house, play normal video […]
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Superceded
Well, I knew it was going to happen, but Google finally released their own ‘official’ version of the Desktop Calendar plugin with the features I’d added, thus making my version obsolete and destined to fall slowly in Gadget ranking. They based their new version off my code but have also edited it to their own desires (Eg They […]
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Retrotastic
Tonight I was in a very retro mood. I was also bored. In the end I set OSX to black and white then browsed the net for an hour or so. Its very refreshing actually. If there was some filter to apply small amounts of static/graininess or dramatically reduce exposure that’d be cool too. Kind of like what […]
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I see you
One of the funky new features on the MacBook is the built in iSight. OK, let’s not beat around the bush, its a webcam that is built into the screen, which is a pretty useful gadget in some cases. Currently though, I’m yet to find it anything more than a toy. As its the only webcam that I […]
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No surprises here
Just to set the scene…. The MacBook is running like a charm. Its been on basicaly since it arrived with only 1 or 2 reboots due to OS updates, but certainly no crashes. So just another day at the office for a Mac really. I goto install Windows on it1… Within 4 minutes I have received a bluescreen […]
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MacBook
Well it finally arrived. OK finally is probably a bit unfair as it was a week before Apple’s original arrival date, but it seemed like a damn long while. That’s right, the MacBook. What can I say that anybody reading this probably hasn’t seen 10 times before? I’ve yet to really notice any flaws with the unit, its […]
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My OS beats your OS
I was flicking through my websites logs this morning, just checking out how things were going. When I noticed something strange. The stats package I’m using (awstats) apart from being the hands down best one I’ve come accross, provides a listing of the most common OS’s that are used to browse my domain. Normally for noisymime.org this is […]
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