Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Favourites from week 13 of 2008

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

favorite podcasts at Five Public Opinions Top 10 Ways to Build Muscle Mass Fast at Ririan Project From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems at Ars Technica How to Stay Healthy While Sitting At Your Desk All Day at Diet Hack

My Web 2.0 Life

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

As I involve my self further and further into the Web 2.0 world I find that more of my life is going online, this blog is one example. I started out reading other blogs, I suppose because I always thought that everyone had an interesting story to tell and I wanted ...

Comments

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Ever since I started the whole blog thing I have always wanted a better way to keep track of the comments that I have made on other blogs in case there was a response to a questions that I wanted or it turned into a interesting conversation. I had seen del.icio.us ...

Nokia 6233

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Finally got myself a new phone, after months of searching and looking at different phones, then looking on ebay and the prices and if I could afford them. I decided 'stuff it' and went to the optus shop and grabbed a Nokia 6233. I was already looking at the slide-phone Nokia ...

Palm Tungsten|T

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

My first real foray into the gadget world would have to be the purchase of my first PDA, being the Palm Pilot Tungsten|T. In the early days of 2000 a device of this nature set me back $1000, and at that age it was by no means a small amount, I ...

iRiver H10 20gb

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

I have been trying to choose between the iRiver and an iPod, but I was always leaning towards the iRiver for various reasons, mainly the fact that I would be able to manipulate files without iTunes, but as it turns out this isn't such a band thing. Recently the choice was ...

Anti-Hero

Friday, July 28th, 2006

I used to like the traditional hero when I was younger, but as I have gotten older I don't seem to like them as I used to, don't get me wrong they still pose the intent of good will and the warm fuzzy feeling that you get after reading and ...

dnsmasq

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

I like playing around with and running services on servers because I think that it's fun, it's the reason that this blog runs on its own server at home, that does mean that there are problems with conectivity sometimes and I am forced to fix my own problems, which has ...

Ethical Robots

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

I have just finished a semester doing a subject called 'Professional Issues in Information Technology' which I found immensely fascinating and out of curiosity and a break from exam study I started looking up some topics relating to it on the Internet and I came across this article: No sex please, ...

Recover Lost MySQL Password in FreeBSD

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

I had lost the root password for my mysql root account I had it stored in my palm pilot and it had proved stable for quite some time so I threw out the written down passwords. But then when I went a looked for it in my Palm Pilot the ...