Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
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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 ...
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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 ...
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