Archive for the ‘FOSS’ Category
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Tremulous is my favourite waste of time. I must have lost months of productivity (if you can call the hours after midnight productive) to this game. It's an online, 3D team First Person Shooter (FPS). That means when you start up the game program, it shows you a list of ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
I saw a request for help with English grammar from a member of a forum I often visit, so had a quick peep at his website. It looked great, nice copyright message and all. He seemed to be suggesting that it was all his own work, so I had a ...
Posted in Breaktime, FOSS, Life, Philosophy, software | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
This problem was making me go blind! I'm testing Spinneret with ab at the moment, trying to make sure there's no disastrous behaviour under load. I found that ab just stopped after the first request if I used the -k switch. I'm not sure the problem is my fault, exactly, ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, FOSS, software, Spinneret | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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So you're happily upgrading from Jaunty Jackalope to Karmic Kipper and there's a network problem. A brief, normally completely recoverable network hiccup. Update-manager complains that it was interrupted, and quits. Thinking nothing of it, you ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
These old shipping modules no longer work since Pos Malaysia's last website change in January 2011. I've replaced them all with a single shipping module that should give your customers a faster response, be more reliable and more flexible. See Shipping widget module page at spider.my and the original (now ...
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