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Restaurant/eatery websites, or any commercial premises website for that matter, which doesn't have any information on what time it closes other than "late ( Read more... )

Managed to design, configure, test, and implement a cross-WAN multi-backup, caching, and cross-site mirror and data transfer setup for the current employer ( Read more... )

You know what would be useful? A program for PCs and digital media boxes which identified an inserted DVD (CD, Bluray disc, other media source) and only played a user-chosen subset of its content. Automatically skip past intros, trailers, commercials, FBI warnings, "did you know you can download this" scare-skits, and any parts of the movie you ( Read more... )

Having spent most of today wrestling with an internet gateway box which suddenly decided it was not going to pass packets, and having trawled through the net only to run across multiple incompatible causes and solutions, I can say:

If your ifconfig -a output has a __tmpnnnnnnnnnn entry where there should be an ethN entry (eth0, eth1 etc), the ( Read more... )

Website designer has decided that as I'm not paying for broken goods, they're sending my account to collections. Good luck with that. I wonder if their collection agent knows that their own website (by the same designer) is also standards-incompliant ( Read more... )

On-the-fly print translation.

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Net connection went out last night. Seventeen and a half hours of troubleshooting later, it was eventually narrowed down to an old cable having apparently given up the ghost - or at least things started working once it was replaced ( Read more... )

Picked up an old T43 laptop on the way home to play with. Wiped it, installed something better, now waiting for 70+ updates to download and install ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like being told bluntly at a job that significant proportions of their code are royally screwed ten ways to Sunday because they previously hired someone who (a) couldn't program, and (b) decided to hide this fact by creating the most convoluted, spaghettified, fragile, bug-ridden code around ( Read more... )