Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category

Old parallel printer, new laptop. Linux + old PC to the rescue!

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 ...

No more home hosting

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Apparently we just need to give a few day's notice to our local TM Point to terminate our Streamyx service. We've had it more than 2 years, and upgraded to 1Mbit/s last year. I was hosting a few sites of my own, just little ideas I wanted to work on, ...

Search suggestions with MYSQL Levenshtein distance

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Up until a couple of days ago, the Spider.my search page applied only minimal formatting to hits, and no extra page decoration. The 'blank screen of death' appeared for a search miss: no results, no page content. Just to reassure the user the empty page was 'normal', I'd put a lame ...

Like Cuil. But with no funding, no style and no data.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignright" width="160" caption=" - Mandelbrot"][/caption] I've been working so late recently, I've been early. It's silly, working late. I've been sitting here working at a glacial pace, thinking "I must go to sleep", until I can hear birds singing, the window starts to get bright again, and ...

What’s my IP address?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

While working on the ZoneEdit update script, I did a survey of IP address checking techniques, 4 of them described below, and a fifth prototype which I think is the fastest and simplest IP address check on the Internet. I host several sites on servers in my home. I have ...