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As far as I can tell, flash has three uses: advertising, games and youtube. I don't want the adverts and I can live without the games, but youtube is a pretty damned handy feature. It is therefore with a certain measure of annoyance that I discovered last week that the flash player had started to occasionally just freeze up the browser for half a ( Read more... ) -
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I've just found a small denial of service attack on the electronic door locks to the labs. Outside hours, you need to type your PIN to get in after swiping your card. It seems that while it's waiting for input, the door release button on the inside doesn't function. The input timeout for the panel is around 30-40 seconds. -
Mathematics
Browsing the interwebs today, I encountered this document about the way that maths is taught these days. I'll link to a page which introduces the document, since it's a big PDF and the context is also interesting: http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.htmlRead more... ) -
A case of "oh bugger!"
I foolishly decided to have my hair cut back to shoulder length. In theory this'd look brilliant, as it did when I let it grow out that long. In practice, it looks like a bob. I'm going to have to either put up with it or get it all taken off. Bugger! -
Devaluing my qualifications
Today I found a few AS level computing practice papers. Highlights include ( Read more... ) -
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Well, there's a lot of weirdoes out there on the internet. This one suggests that walking around barefoot is a good idea ( Read more... ) -
Boiler woes
Ye gods, boilers are annoying beasts. Ours lost pressure earlier this week for no apparent reason, and naturally stopped working. So maintainance came along and repressurised it, and all was fine ( Read more... ) -
Generating an array of primes in Lua
I've recently been learning Lua, which is a rather neat little programming language. One of the nice things about it is the ability to override methods on its only data structure, tables. So, a natural first program might be creating an "infinite" table of primes:
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Linky!
I simply had to mention this:
http://albertomontt.blogspot.com/
"Condensed Milk"
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Heh, joining the dots in government: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4209460.stm
