Lately I have noticed that my broadband connection at home is just not as fast as I thought it should be considering that I am supposed to have a 2Mb line. So eventually I got around to running a speed test on my connection. I ran the test initially in Firefox and then for morbid… Read More »Browsing Slowly
From a little known research group called the TSSG has emerged a little known company called Zinadoo. Zinadoo are offering people and businesses the ability to create mobile websites with the greatest of ease; Websites that are backed by operator services such as SMS. Colourful, dynamic and fun – the Zinadoo service offering is sure… Read More »Forget Zizou, Get Zinadoo!
For a while now, my infallable OSX installation has been behaving strangely. By strangely I mean that it has been loosing printers everytime it reboots, fails to restart the HTTP server after reboot and Spotlight would no longer function. As you might imagine this was somewhat annoying. However, after a bit of searching around and… Read More »Repairing OSX
Just upgraded to MovableType 3.32 and for the first time ever I had a hiccup in the upgrade. To say that I was slightly concerned was an understatement as I had carelessly forgotten to back-up my DB before starting. Anyhow after recopying all the files across once more and checking permissions, it all seems fine… Read More »MT 3.32
As I struggled this week with Blogger acting very slowly for me I decided to express my woes to the ever knowledgeable Open mailing list, whom without fail returned with backup and alternative suggestions. I never realised the wealth of free blogging options available out there. Most will provide you with your own user.service.com URL… Read More »Free Blogging?
It would appear that a small Dublin-based company has claimed to have found the answer to all our energy needs. Free energy! They have launched a challenge to all scientists to prove their claims to be wrong. In the meantime I’m sure that the government is investigating a way of taxing this free energy and… Read More »Free Energy?
This week I finally came to grips with a large amount of Hibernate logic. Still by no means an expert on this new-fangled technology but definitely making progress. For those not in the know, Hibernate is a lightweight framework for database connectivity in Java, replacing the old JDBC type connectivity that gave us all so… Read More »Time to Hibernate
It’s simple to use, simple to get your hands on and simple to share but P2P doesn’t appear that simple when you want to implement it. Don’t get me wrong, the concept is not totally alien to me: Sure I set up a client and it makes itself known to others, possibly advertising a hash… Read More »P2P
For a couple of weeks now I’ve been struggling with the task of sorting out a sensible network connection for my Mac Mini that Siân is using in her studio. Sadly I had the foresight to buy the Mini without the Airport option and there was just no aesthetically pleasing way to run an ethernet… Read More »It’s Alive, it’s alive!