Selling my desktop PC
Apparently Malaysia is proposing a Computing Professionals Bill, which is probably designed for indirect censorship and control of the Internet.
Some Australian government websites.
Some possibly solutions to issue with temporary profiles in Windows.
Event order is be very important, and can lead to some irritatingly vague errors.
Various music players in Windows and Linux.
Android development observations.
A new phone and Android development.
Steam saved games and how to find saved games and back them up yourself.
CSS vendor prefixes are annoying, but do have some uses.
Researching audio down-sampling to a specific sample rate and exploring enabling hardware features in cameras and phones.
Games, games, games! Getting games and giving money to causes.
Modifying an Ubuntu Server to be a Media Centre attached to a TV.
I need an architecture to allow for versioning a plugin, component or factory pattern in C#.
Three events systems - mouse, keybaord and touch - now need to be taken into account in web development.
Late night snack suggestions.
What do IT projects and reporting on fundamentalism and violence have in common? Aggregates can be bad.
Troubleshooting a Windows wireless connection.
Writing content for the web and Firefox RC release.
Steam games on sale and other Digital Store discussion.
No entry into MashupAustralia from me, but some very interesting appsto look at!
Cycling has many benefits - exercise, free transport, zero effect on the atmosphere, and accessible to almost anyone. Yet there are still many sections of the public, media and government who see cycling as a problem. This seems to be changing for the better.
MashupAustralia competition!
Reviews of Demos played through Steam: Bad Rats by Invent4; Time Gentlemen, Please! by Zombie Cow Studios; Mini Ninjas by Io-Interactive; Osmos by Hemisphere Games; QuantZ by Gamerizon Studio, inc; Audiosurf by Dylan Fitterer.
Services for downloading new, old, indie and mainstream games.
Adding Facebook and Twitter support to Pidgin.
Ideas for federated identity - OpenID, email addresses, browser managed.
Fixing excessive CPU and I/O usage by Tortoise SVN.
Using iPods/iPhones with Linux. Why does Apple make it so hard?
Maybe it is time to take HTML5 seriously.
Will app stores be overtaken by the utlimate free app store: the web? XML apparently still need to be worried about, and heaps of browser news!
Wolfram Alpha may or may not have copyright on it's output. This seems irrelevant - it's the engine that's the important and scarce resource.
On lie detectors, "Lie to Me", and the #SANDILANDSISADOUCHE situation.
Data Mining resources and definition.
Formatting dates in T-SQL.
Comparing dates, specifically start and end dates.
There are so many ways to indicate semantics, what's the best way? Search engines seem to finally be picking it up.
Publishers want to keep prices on e-books high, maintain control of the market, push physical books more than electronic books... any of this sounding familiar? It's almost step-for-step what the music industry did, and continues to do.
New screen sizes being used on netbooks are causing troubles for web designers and OS developers.
Is it really HTML5's canvas vs Adobe's Flash, Sun/Oracle's JavaFX, Microsoft's Silverlight? Or could they work together?
Open Source image algorithms, and more use of Flickr.
From trademark wins by the little guy and copyright education to non-anonymous anonymised data and Google's attempt to frame collaboration in terms of computing strengths.
A look at Kogan's first computer - a 10 inch netbook. Plenty to like, with some small issues that might require some attention. Definitely a player in the ultra-portable/netbook laptop field.
New Dvd to hold 2000 movies using gold nanoparticles, a generation of pirates and gaming stats (from October 2008).
Free tools that help make sure your site will be found through search engines.
Extracting plain text from PDF files.
UpdatePanel and Timer gotcahas
Welcome to Anotherbyte.net. I've decided that I've spent enough time muddling through using free hosted blogs... It's time to do it myself.
"JSLint is a JavaScript program that looks for problems in JavaScript programs."
There are a number of ways to do it, but they're all complex.
Apparently today is "World Intellectual Property Day". From my limited understanding of IP, they have this backwards. The day is named after a means of correcting a perceived market failure - why should that be celebrated?
Even when Linux starts out with 100% market share in a new market, it quickly looses its share. What's going on?
Making the change from gOS on the Kogan Netbook Pro to Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR). Well worth it.
Geekery! Aforge.Net Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence c# library, preassembled circuitboards called LittleBits and Johnny Chung Lee's Wiimote projects.
Leash is not right.. need mop handle.
Changing text with javascript can produce interesting results.
A board game where 2 players attempt to get five of their pieces in a row.
Useful links to aid in validating in ASP.Net.
A kangaroo gets in trouble swimming in the surf, new 'creatures' begin life on the beach and the Maleo bird gets a beach-front reserve.
Creative Commons are a great alternative to "all rights reserved" that can help to promote sharing. It does not apply equally well to all situations, but is a valuable tool in many areas.