Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Among the old computers that end up on my desk is a Pentium MMX 233MHz PC from ... I don't know, the dawn of time, probably. It can't have been made any later than late 1990s. I use it for testing code behaviour on low-resource systems. It did have Slackware ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
There are plenty of webpages where you can get foreign exchange rate information, like XE.com and OANDA, but those are heavyweight pages intended for human use. Those same sites offer real-time exchange rate data, but for fairly hefty charges. What I wanted was a simple feed with just the bare ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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It required a bit more work than I was expecting, but wossis.com now has a shiny new Atom feed for updated cardsets. Atom is a format and protocol for providing news (the 'feed') about a website. You may have seen the little ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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I was so excited when I heard about there was going to be a partial solar eclipse visible in Malaysia today. It was an annular eclipse in some places, such as this photograph taken from The Malaysian Insider ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
The complaints from the kids were finally overwhelming. Their VCDs and DVDs kept 'sticking' and restarting, but seemed to play OK in our PCs. I couldn't bear the thought of replacing the DVD player, I can't help thinking it's next week's antique. We have an old LG TV for the ...
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