General items about technology, including hardware, software and miscellaneous gadgets not classified elsewhere.
Recently my LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini failed to switch off. A quick search around the Internet suggests that the power supply had to be replaced. Now the appliance requires a special power supply which costs about $50 to replace. This is too expensive, so I rather void the warranty and try to recover the data […]
As you may already know, the Apple Store in Sydney is opening soon, at 77 King Street. Just to keep you up to date, here is what it looks like earlier this week:
This is how Apple makes its money. It looks like the packaging actually costs more than the cable itself.
Given the well known lack of enthusiasm for Microsoft Windows Vista, typified by Dell’s optional downgrade, Apple produced the following rather cheeky and ungenerous ad:
Trawling through some of the old files on my hard drive, I have found some LaTeX style files and document classes which may be useful for actuarial students. These include: actuarial.sty, which provides for symbols and other notation for actuarial, financial and statistical uses; and fce-thesis.cls, which is a document class file which provides a […]
There is currently a newsgroup post about a serious calculation error in Excel 2007. The issue relates to certain formulae which should return 65535 when it doesn’t. That’s why most companies don’t upgrade software so quickly they have released. Imagine what would happen if critical financial computations were compromised by this bug.
[Apologies to anyone who does not understand this post.] I’ve released version 0.1 of SimpleID, a very simple OpenID provider written in PHP. I am running an earlier version of SimpleID as my OpenID identity at http://koinic.net/ Send me bug reports!
My friendly ISP, Quadra Hosting, moved this site from bsd1 to bsd13. This means that this web site now runs on PHP 5. It is timely because version 7 of Drupal will no longer be compatible with PHP 4. (I apologise for the lack of sense of the above post for non-geeks. Thank you for […]
There appears to be a problem with the physics in the following video, allegedly from Wii Bowling.
I have recently been exploring the world of social networking through Facebook, one of the larger social networking sites on the Internet. Apart from finding out that I know a lot more people than I originally envisaged, it was rather interesting to see how much information people reveal themselves on social networking sites. Often you […]