Archive for the ‘FOSS’ Category
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The standard 'zones' facility of osCommerce has an attribute 'zone_code' which at first glance looks as though it might support a standardised shipping quotation system, but osCommerce comes with a database populated with zone codes that are not at all standard. The kinds of codes that are present in the ...
Posted in FOSS, Spider.my, Useful | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 14th, 2010
There's plenty of 'information' available in Malaysia, and just a few people publicly questioning its quality. The Ministry of Tourism is conducting a poll on its website to see whether people want to keep the arches being built at the Penang Botanical gardens (Warning: abysmal Flash site). Anil Netto (who ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Breaktime, FOSS, Life, Philosophy | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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Just a quick note to say I've found one of those surprisingly useful features of a graphical desktop that really does make sense. I was thinking about calculating the positions of some elements on a web page and ...
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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, 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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