Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category

IE8 javascript not running from script element in head

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

After staring at other people's solutions to this problem for a day or so, I finally realised what I was doing wrong and thought I'd better share it, just in case you also fail to see for several hours how you caused the problem. I have a page that works ...

Having your own printer is so last century: online printing services

Friday, July 15th, 2011

We needed to send a couple of small documents by post and realised - while we are in the 'No Fixed Abode' phase of our Keep-It-Simple-Stupid plan to move back to the UK - that another thing we don't have in our luggage is a printer. We're currently using a ...

Trying out JBullet: IntBuffer is not direct

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1271" align="alignright" width="150" caption="JBullet Basic Demo"][/caption] I've been simulating the movement of a line-following robot in plain old Java recently, but wanted to try a few problems that need physics, so I downloaded JBullet - a Java port of the Bullet  Physics Library. It needs LWJGL - the Lightweight Java ...

BrickOS on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I've been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I'm currently installing the source ...

OpenSearch – the best search feature with no browser support

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

[caption id="attachment_1000" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Suggestions in Firefox from the spider.my OpenSearch facility"][/caption] I've been working on spider.my for too long with no updates, so I've moved a recent version of the site online. I don't have enough spare resources for a separate development system, so it may occasionally appear to be ...