Scrapers are a part of the internet, so rather than get angry, I get even. A scraper site is a web site that copies content of other sites and republishes them as their own content. I actually don’t have a problem as long as the scraper site leaves links intact, so it links back to [...]
…When I’m not working on linux, I’ve been working on some websites. Mainly blogs, but also some ebay affiliate sites that are usually attached to blogs. I’m trying to get 30 up to start with, but I’m not very commited, I’ve got five going, oldest one is five months old. Once I hit 30, I’ll [...]
I’ve been stuck on this problem for a week. It’s for a solar funnel I’m working on (no, it’s not homework) I’m trying to workout an equation that solves theta given x and y. The idea is to have the funnel as wide as possible (smallest theta) so sun hitting the very top of the [...]
I started out listening to this tune (called Drifting), well, watching, too. Amazing technique, it struck me how relaxed he is in his shoulders while his hands are banging around. And the Beard! http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4 I thought it was my favourite. Then I found this one, same beard. http://youtube.com/watch?v=dt1fB62cGbo At first the melody was vaguely familiar, [...]
One of the minor issues I had since installing ubuntu on my eee pc was I couldn’t work out how to turn the wifi off. There’s a Fn+F2 key combo that works in xandros, but it didn’t work for me in ubuntu. I tried googling for the answer and got nowhere. So, for google, to [...]
Inspired by Paul Fenwick’s entertaining talk on cleaning up the web at LCA (in other words, I ripped it off) I set out to make google reader more useable on the Eee. But first, an invaluable Firefox plugin to have for the Eee is Nuke Anything Enhanced. It lets you right click on an object [...]
I thought I’d document my current phone setup, probably look back in 10 years time and think how primitive it was. The brains of it are handled by freeswitch, I luurv freeswitch ;), running on a little VM with 128M of memory, and a few gigs of disk. My internet provider is iinet, I get [...]
On 02/03/2008, at 10:30 AM, phil colbourn wrote: Last week Pakistan Telecom was ordered by their government to block access to youtube. They did this by re-directing routes containing the youtube addresses to an internal dead-end. A mistake was made that advertised this to their peer and thus the remainder of the internet. The IP [...]
Just got a new office. An Eee PC (JB HiFi had them for $450), and a 3G wireless internet connection (5Gigs/month for $39/month). Not really sure how much time I’m going to get out of it with the usb wireless modem connected, I’ve been told the modem sucks the juice. Got a bit of experimenting [...]
We were given a server to play with to do whatever we wanted, hosted in a US data centre. It was running RHEL 4.x, I could have worked with that, but it didn’t look like it was on a support contract, I wasn’t able to update it, anyway. I thought about trying to convert it [...]