PlanetJoel.com

Senator On-Line

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:37:05 -0700

An Australian party running for the senate which allows you to Vote Online on each issue they vote on.

I had a similar idea recently thinking about how referendums and so forth are only extreme because of the human cost of organising and counting them. With computers that cost can be very low.

Literally digg up this bill I love it.

I got defrauded for $5

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:04:19 -0700

I went to the train station because I was running late and foolishly thought it might be slightly faster than walking (in my case its not I've since found out). At the train station I saw I had two $10 notes and not wanting to get a fistful of change out of the machine headed over to one of the windows. I handed him the note and said where I was going, he took it and then gave me change for a $5. I told him I had given him a $10 and became slightly irate. He gave some bullshit story about how they always put the money on the side of the cash register, took a $5 note out and placed it on the side claiming it was mine.

I told the supervisor, he took down my details and gave me a call a few hours later. He informed me that they had balanced up the till and that it had balanced perfectly.

I'm 100% certain that I gave a $10 note so I'm left with this burning question as to why they would steal it. I can only think that with the prices of trains these days the average person would be unlikely to notice that they are short changed and they use this to supplement their wages. Is there supervisor in on this scam as well? How much would they skim in a typical day, $100 at most surely otherwise people would notice. Why not just give up the game when I caught him out? Maybe it really was a mistake and the guy got lucky and just overpaid someone else.

Shoe tossing

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:45:09 -0700

Wikipedia mentions that shoe tossing may indicate gang warfare, where to buy crack or heroin, or sites where people have been murdered.

Rage Against the Ebay

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:30:53 -0700

I think Rage Against the Machine promoters are performing some kind of DOS on eBay. Check out the prices on these tickets. In case the link is dead this is a ticket bid up by 5 bids to $100,000 and there are others for $16 million. A tad excessive perhaps.

Kanye West is outselling 50 Cent

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:31 -0700

Kanye West is outselling 50 Cent. 50 cent may have just bet the rest of his change.

Selling Laptop on Ebay

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:40:09 -0700

I'm selling my Sony Vaio SZ15GP on EBay, if you know anyone in the market for one send them the listing.

Bluetooth Proximity Locking of your Desktop

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:22:15 -0700

Guide for SUSE linux.

How not to jump a river

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:10:53 -0700

Youtube video of man trying to jump a river.

Windows : CD Burning seems to use an awful lot of CPU

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:00:10 -0700

Windows has two modes of talking to IDE devices, PIO mode and DMA mode. DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode is far faster and more CPU efficient, however it automatically gets disabled after a certain number of errors as a fallback position to take on a drive that can't do DMA or a bad cable. The problem is CD drives often encounter errors simply due to the nature of the medium, and if you are anything like me and buy packs of 150 DVD's for $25 off ebay then you will know probably have experienced this pain.

To find out what mode they are using go to Start->Control Panel->System->Device Manager. Look for IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and expand that then look at the Properties for Primary IDE Channel and Secondary IDE Channel. If any devices are listed as PIO mode then you are suffering from this problem.

To fix it download the script from this page which should fix you right up.

First they discovered oil

Joel joelh-website@planetjoelDOTcom — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:57:49 -0700

Then at some point they decided to build the world's tallest tower, and a tower that has turbines inbetween each level and can rotate.