Archive for May, 2005

The Make Keyboards Sensible campaign!

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Here is a picture of a standard UK PC keyboard. Can you spot the obvious mistake?

Revenge of The Sith

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

Duun duun duun, duun, dun-dun, duun, dun-dun.
It’s alwriiiight… Go and see it*.
*If you’re up for a bit of a mindless space romp, though not if you thought the first two films were irredeemable, because this is only as much better than II, as II was than I.

NFS! File locking! Firewalls! Pain!

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

I recently managed to get my server firewall to allow NFS requests from clients on my local network. It was a bit of a pain, so in case you’re suffering similar pain, I’ve written up my solution.

Interactive cyber-chicken-petting

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

“This is the first human-poultry interaction system ever developed”

“Space is big, really big”

Monday, May 9th, 2005

“You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it is a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
…and so on.
As an adjunct to today’s blockbusting “Hitchhiker’s” review, here’s a handy guide to our own wee corner of the universe—
http://astro.neutral.org/imagehtml/scale.html
—so [...]