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Speed of photo transfers in Linux…
/ | Leave a CommentEver since I have started using KDE with Linux/FreeBSD as my desktop replacing Windows, there has been just one thing that has really annoyed me about both of these desktops, and that is using Kodak cameras. Yes – I know, such a simple device, but you will be amazed at how many headaches it used […]
Read more »MyBanco: FAQ
/ | 1 Comment on MyBanco: FAQEvery time I go to my Inbox every morning; I seem to have three or four questions waiting for me regarding MyBanco. Starting from the most asked question, and going down to questions I seem to get less often, I thought I might answer a few of those questions so that I will never have […]
Read more »All I do at work is…
/ | 2 Comments on All I do at work is…It’s amazing what I do in a week at work. Milko’s Everywhere Even more Milko’s They are in the bin as well Lot’s of screen with lots of text, too.
Read more »What is software?
/ | 2 Comments on What is software?Software is really a very different type of “product” – the only I know that is released not completely finished neither fail-proof.
Read more »St. George really needs to update their webpay client library for Linux
/ | Leave a CommentMy development environment is CentOS 5. Running a library that is two and a half years old really sucks on a new Linux box, especially because I had to install three compat libraries. The software is called “webpay”, and the actual library itself is distributed as a binary library; which would be alright apart from […]
Read more »Facebook photos
| Leave a Comment<Ashley> Kayla came up with something so funny… you know when you take photos from up above you, they’re ‘myspace’ photos? well, she reckons that when you take photos with the camera looking up at you, they’re ‘Facebook’ photos xD
Read more »Livin’ the life of a working boy
/ | Leave a CommentSo, I thought I might like to tell you all that I am working the life of the working man now. I recently (on Thursday) started work at my first real full-time job at Digital Pacific. It seems like a pretty good place, and even though it means moving from my current place in residence, […]
Read more »How the stock exchange works
/ | 3 Comments on How the stock exchange worksI have always wanted to be able to write my own software to run a stock exchange, but I have never been able to get a full grasp on how the whole stock exchange system worked. I always had been left with many questions. How exactly are the prices decided of the buying and selling […]
Read more »Feeling 18
| Leave a CommentOn the 12th of September, I turned 18. This would be one reason for me slacking off in terms of number of posts. Thanks to everyone who sent me a happy birthday email 🙂 Will post a little about what I did for my birthday as time goes on, I am somewhat disapointed that I […]
Read more »File sharing is not piracy
/ | 2 Comments on File sharing is not piracyI just hate it when terms get thrown around incorrectly. One of the two words that really annoy me when they are said incorrectly is piracy. Piracy is when you are on the sea, and steal things from other ships. Spread the word: Download the SVG file. Filesharing.svg
Read more »What ShareSource looked like back in the day…
/ | Leave a CommentWhat ShareSource looked like back in the day, when it had “only” 200 projects. This is back on the old origional ShareSource software that I wrote for me and webs. The new software is alot faster.
Read more »Adobe for Linux
/ | 2 Comments on Adobe for LinuxI am disappointed,as a user of both Linux *and* After Effects that After Effects refuses to run on Linux. Let’s face it; After Effects, and other applications in the Creative Suite are the most requested applications to be supported by Adobe on Linux. With a growing market share, and many companies putting in quite a […]
Read more »AegeanLinux, Looking back…
| Leave a CommentToday I was setting up a PmWiki install for a website (more about this in the coming days), and it reminded me about AegeanLinux’s old site. Anyways, I don’t think I have any backups of that site any more, but I did go to archive.org (one of the Internet’s best websites), and look to see […]
Read more »Usefull DNS advice
| Leave a Comment<Deepa> Hosting DNS content on a dynamic IP is like trying to have a baby with a dog. Even IF you succeed it’ll still be a freak (Deepa on #opennic, irc.freenode.net)
Read more »How much it costs to run a .tld
/ | 1 Comment on How much it costs to run a .tldIf we were to run a proper top level domain (eg, a .au or a .nz), I would need seven or eight computers located around the world. The proof is in the root. dig au NS @4.2.2.2 | grep ^au. | wc -l The command above returns “8“, which means that the Australian top level […]
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