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10Sep
2009 This is how bad my ADSL connection wasFor backround on the story, read more about it here: Part 1. Part 2.
Here are some graphs showing the frequency of the connection. The first graph is connections by minute for the first hour, the second is connections by hour for the first 40 hours.
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08Sep
2009 The definitive step by step guide on how to delete a directory permanently from git on Widnows for dumbasses like myselfI admit, git hurts my head. I also admit that I only understand about 10% of git documentation. This is probably about industry average. Removing big files out of git index is just about one of the painful things a normal person will ever have to do. At some point Mr Craig of kodespace indicated [...]
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03Sep
2009 Intermittent – a dirty word in telecomms – part 2Read the first part of the story here.
Alas, the communication gods were with me and the phone was playing up when the tech got in yesterday. He called me on the land line before he got in, 3 minutes later the line got heaps noisy and then dial tone disappeared. I was so happy. He [...]
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01Sep
2009 It’s not that hard to make a laptop adHeard an ad for the U Series laptops from Asus. It was pretty lame, just like all the other Asus radio ads.
What caught my attention was the line that went something like this: “…What you want a fast enough machine to play DVDs in hidef, which not many other slim laptops can.”
Two issues there. One [...]