Month: January 2006

Dean’s mini is finally ready. He’s called it BigBad. Have a look at this video and turn your speakers up all the way cause this little thing absolutely screams.

British photo ID actually ends up decreasing security abroad. British citizens are able to watch CCTV live from their lounge room – privacy has gone completely out the window. How do you know people won’t use this to track people and then rob them (in the places where the cameras don’t go – and they…

A realm has finally opened the gates to AQ I believe. This post sums up their experiences up to it.

Visualise Regular Expressions.

Is anyone else watching this? Its insane. Check it out on 6pm weekday’s on SBS, its a huge rally across Africa. Its got bikes, cars and these huge trucks like giant lorries that tip over all the time and have to get dug out of the sand. The teams help each other out and frequently…

Try and change the netmask of a computer overseas. It leads to much pain and waking up at 3am to ring the states.

That’s awesome.

I recently developed an application in django. Django is a full featured web framework for python, including ORM, automatic admin interface, URL mapper, template and caching systems. Basically if you want to write a blog, or a web forum, or an online poll you will find django to be an incredibly efficient and speedy way…

If your MBR is wiped out the easiest solution is to re-install grub. If you have a “rescue” disk this may be simple, but in my experience it almost never is. The solution is to install boot with knoppix, mount your root partition and mount the /dev/ and /proc/ directories inside the chroot. Depending on…

If you use Debian as much as I do you may have been searching for a utility or function with apt and dpkg that can tell you which package provides a particular file. The utility is called apt-file and it is an absolute life saver. It is not part of the apt system, it caches…