Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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I'm an eternal optimist. I went to the UK a few weeks ago for a party with some old friends in Lancaster, but stayed first with my parents on Canvey Island. Canvey Island has its detractors, but I grew up there and ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
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slamd64 is Fred Emmott's 64bit Slackware project. I installed it on a couple of servers that provide the bulk of the processing power behind spider.my recently. Just like installing Slackware, installing slamd64 on a server is a matter of downloading the first CD ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you're not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an 'online banking buddy' to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered ...
Posted in Breaktime, Broken, Fixed, Google, hardware, Search, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Well, that didn't take long. From 1pm today (0400 GMT), our phones are dead. I walked around to the neighbours - their phones were dead. I popped into the local Internet cafes, their phones are dead too. At the 3rd Internet cafe, the staff looked surprised to find that their ...
Posted in Broadband, Broken, hardware, Spider.my | 3 Comments »
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
My brother-in-law had the worst Acer TravelMate laptop (a 528TE) in the world. It wasn't a bad set of hardware, it was just that the plastic case had so completely degraded that he had to carry the laptop around in a cardboard box to keep all the pieces together. The ...
Posted in Breaktime, Broken, Fixed, Google, hardware | 4 Comments »