The Web-Tablet July 23, 2008

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I must have one of these.

Firefox has outdone itself June 19, 2008

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Surprise, surprise (well, not really), Firefox has reached and surpassed it’s 5-million download goal, with 8-million downloads! Thats about 83,000GB (83TB) of data, which is an insane amount.

More importantly, Firefox 3 immediately as gained a 4% market share, right on day one (source: TechCrunch). Perhaps this could be the exciting end to IE, and finally Firefox will begin to increase in proportion to IE, and then finally, Firefox will take over as the most popular browser. Silly IE.

1337 haxxor June 18, 2008

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That’s what I am! Just managed to work out how to (finally) get .exe files running on the college network. Annoyingly, Firefox (much wanted, because the “real” option is IE7), has to be reinstalled every time, and it also involves the physical removal of the network cable (and replacement). Here’s what I did:

  1. Login as usual
  2. As “personal settings” are loading, yank the network cable
  3. WIndows loads as normal, but no network drives appear (also, C:/ drive is not there, as normal [we're not allowed it!])
  4. However, because normally My Documents links to the file on the network drive, but this time there is no network drive, it gives a form of acess to the C:/ drive, where there is no .exe file ban (like the network drives)
  5. Plug network cable back in, connect, download Firefox, install in My Docs and go!

An annoying proceedure, but when you get an entire moning with -not one- lesson, you have to think of something!

Sustained visitors and (finally) a new PC May 3, 2008

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When I say finally in the title, I mean it. A whole week with no gaming (well, minus the Wii). I guess productivity did rise 400%, and work hours increased 10-fold, but I wasn’t gaming, and that is what counts, I think. So, a new machine for me, but no more money either. For the geeks, here’s the specs:

I’m pretty pleased with it, took a few hours to build it all, then I thought it broke. Of course, I had stupidly forgotten that motherboards actually have two power plugs, the 24pin and the 4pin. *silly me*

AS-Levels are in a few weeks, so it’s work, work and more work at the moment, but I’ll still be around.

In other news, it seems this blog has picked up sustained visitors! It’s off the front page of BestWebGallery (whom gave me 5000+ visits), and the uniques have dropped off significantly, BUT, they now seem to have levelled off at a very nice value of ~200, much more than I’ve ever seen before. Perhaps CSS gallerys can bring returning visitors. We shall see…