I got the much anticipated Gears of War 2 today. Annoyingly though, when trying to start the Solo campaign and select difficulty, I was stuck. Hammering the A button meant nothing and it wouldn’t allow me to progress or start the game. The solution’s simple: just sign out of xbox live and then select difficulty. [...]
I wanted to upgrade my work machine to Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) from Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), but the update manager was not showing the distribution/release upgrade button. This is due to 8.04/Hardy being an Long Term Support (LTS) release, and 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) not. Therefore, you’ll first need to enable distribution upgrades in the [...]
September 6, 2008 – 22:33
jQuery is a good thing. It allows you to minimise the amount of Javascript you write, while maintaining elegance and ease-of-use. jQuery.com has recently relaunched with a brand-new design. Feedback from around the web was initially quite negative due to a bizarre decision by someone who thought it’d be great to apply a ‘rockstar’ ethos [...]
September 5, 2008 – 20:32
This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing [...]
September 4, 2008 – 08:01
Update: it seems this bug was already reported, but the amusement value seemed to escape most of the web. The web’s abuzz with talk of Google’s new venture – Chrome. My workplace is no exception; in fact we’ve had numerous discussions about it, spanning from “should we support it” to adoption paths. One of Chrome’s [...]
So you’re sitting at work, and your much-loved VPS with hosting company X has gone down. You need to bring it back up, but you’re an hour away from getting to a PC. Fear not, fellow hacker – SSH over an HTTP proxy is here! Well actually, it’s been here a while. Ahem. Before you [...]
The latest project at work is using a service tier setup. We have the web front-end that’s using Struts 1.2 (yes, old!), Weblogic 9.2, Apache Axis 1.3, JSON & jQuery. The back-end web services are written in .Net (and how difficult it seems to be for developers to work in .Net). Things at least work, [...]
