I was just reading up on the Atomic MPC forums (as I do), when one of the others posted a thread regarding the formation of the OpenDocument Format Alliance. This is a group of companies and organisations, who have decided to move away from proprietry formats such as Microsoft Office’s formats, and instead, use the [...]
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Yep, I’m guilty of doing this sort of thing… take a 13 year-old piece of kit like an SGI Indy, and chuck Linux 2.6 with KDE 3.5 on it. But how about this… A group of individuals, with seemingly too much time on their hands, have successfully managed to run Windows XP on as little [...]
Yep, I’m sure everybody knows what I’m on about… it’s those annoying people, that ring just as you’re about to take a bite of your hot dinner … or wake you up/disturb you in the middle of the day, to sell you something you’re not interested in. I’ve endured it for quite some time now. [...]
Yep… it’s that time again, the time when we’re going from one end of town, to the other, visiting numerous relatives and attending many christmas parties over the silly season. Stinking hot weather … time with the family… perfect waterfight weather actually. This also means I’ll be on a somewhat limited internet connection (last year, [...]
Hi All, It has been discovered that the latest 2005.1 stages appear to be missing critical /dev entries. To work around the issue… execute the following commands before exiting the chroot environment: # cd /dev # /sbin/MAKEDEV generic-mipsel This should create the necessary device nodes. I shall look at rectifying the issue ASAP. Stay tuned.
I’ve been using screen for a little while now. It’s a brilliant little package, but it does have some shortcomings. One being, you can only be viewing one app at a time… and it takes a little getting used to. Anyway, I happened to mention this in #humbug (irc.oz.org)… and how it’d be nice to [...]
After some tinkering today, I managed to figure out the wonderous black art that is IPv6. Now I get to discover the Internet that IPv4 user’s don’t see. How does one get hooked up to IPv6? Well, if your ISP doesn’t support it, then you have to establish an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel with an IPv6 broker. [...]
My god… never thought a spammer would be this stupid. Okay, we’ve all heard of phishing I’m sure… and unfortunately in this day & age, it’s nothing unusual. However, normally it involves clicking a link, which takes you to a website where you enter your precious details. Not this one. This one is the first [...]
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