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Cortina Fuel Injection – Part 1 The Electronics

Besides being your run of the mill computer geek, I’ve always been a bit of a car geek as well. This often solicits down-the-nose looks from others who associate such people with V8 Supercar lovin’ petrolheads, which has always surprised me little because the most fun parts of working on a car are all just testing physics theories […]

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Boxee iView back online

Just a quick post to say the ABC iView Boxee app has been updated to version 0.7 and should now be fully functional once again. I apologise to anyone who has been using the app for how long this update has taken and I wish I could say I’ve been off solving world hunger or something, but in […]

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License quibbles (aka Hiro & linux pt 2)

Since my last post regarding the conversion of media from Channel 9’s Catch Up service, I have been in discussion with the company behind this technology, Hiro-Media. My concerns were primarily around their use of the open source xvid media codec and whilst I am not a contributor to xvid (and hence do not have any ownership under […]

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Potential Project

I’m considering the merits of setting up a local (ie Ballarat) portal  system, very much in line with the famous Craig’s List. It would be a little bit of work technically, but really not that much. Something like http://www.everything-ballarat.com.au It’d be both an interesting project, as well as a potential source of advertising revenue, at least enough I […]

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Public Property

An article on /. this evening got me thinking, again, about open source. Specifically today it was open source in government. The article was about how the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has release their latest version o e-tax, their electronic tax submission program and, surprise, surprise, its Windows only. Whilst it being a Windows program isn’t too frustrating […]

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