Category Archives: Technology
SANE 2004
After a weekend spent showing Geoff around Amsterdam, we’re at SANE 2004 for the next 5 days. We’re currently in the Black Hats tutorial, which rather amusingly started with a number of examples of how you can use Google to … Continue reading
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Comment spam
I’m getting really tired of people using the ability to post comments to blog entries for their own nefarious purposes, namely to drop in links to the latest site for cheap Viagra and penis enlargement technology. Presumably, they’re hoping that … Continue reading
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On The Money
Ruby/Finance is finally available for public consumption. I released version 0.1.0 yesterday evening to a deafening roar of silence. Currently, it handles basic Yahoo Finance stuff, such as currency conversions and stock data retrieval from the American, Australian, Asian and … Continue reading
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The Bug Returns
I’ve been farting around, looking for another programming project to sink some time into. I haven’t felt like doing any programming for a couple of months now, and I needed something to get my teeth into enough that it would … Continue reading
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Random acts of time-killing
I finally got around to getting lm_sensors to work on my main desktop this evening. I now have gkrellm informing me that my CPU fan is spinning at 5443 RPM and the CPU’s temperature is 49°C. Talk about useless information. … Continue reading
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