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 […]
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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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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Laptop painting
I’ve been meaning to write up the paint job I gave my laptop for a while now but just have never got a round to it. The idea was to dress up the old girl and hopefully distract some people from how shamefully old it is (PIII 1ghz). Its a linux only laptop so the obvious choice was […]
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OSS comes to life and its cute!
I don’t normally post things like this, let alone on my ‘technical’ blog, but its kinda relevant. Its possibly the cutest thing you will ever actually see thats geek related: Yes, that’s right its a baby firefox. Someone grab a little globe and wrap this thing around it please.
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Word games
Yesterday I was reading the Wikipedia article entitled “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” which is a fantastic example of why our language is so utterly confusing and if nothing, a rather amusing read. The problem was though, that I think my brain somehow couldn’t shake the idea of these ‘homophonous phrases’ (See Wikipeadia) and I […]
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Beep’s not good
Its been coming for a while but today I decided that I’d upgrade the memory in the trusty MacMini. The 512mb it had in it was fine but open a few applications, or start playing Wow, and it really starts to chug. Put your ear up to it (I love how quiet the little thing is!) and very […]
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