A while ago I blogged about my absolute love for my Sennheiser PX 100′s. They are truly astoundingly good headphones for use with iPods and other mobile sound sources. The quality getting up there with big headphones that cost a whole lot more. So….. I lost them. Looked for a week and then gave up. [...]
I started using Ubuntu in earnest with 8.04 and 10.04 will mark 2 years of using Ubuntu at my work desktop. I am a Mac fanboy but in the office I have the choice Windows 7….well that is about the only choice. I decided to go rouge and run Ubuntu way back when. It works [...]
Do we need another certification body? ITCP (www.itcp.co.nz) is doing a concerted effort at a holistic NZ IT certification. Somehow that really is starting to bug me. Do we need all these people telling us we can do something and charging a substantial fee for it? It costs about $370 to get a certification and [...]
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One of the biggest issues in modern IT is storing all that data. I know that I have drives coming out of my ears at home and it still is not enough. I have over 3TB of current storage divided into active data and incremental backup storage. I still do not feel as safe as [...]
The Computerworld writes in their news-ticker today that “Ultrafast broadband coming to NZ“. Well kudos on Telstra for bringing us 100Mbit download rates next year. Oh wait….. You’ll have either 5,10 or 20GB cap. So that only means that you’ll reach your download limit on the second of each month and not the fourth! What [...]
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For my vehicular A-to-B machine I needed some LED lights for slight modding. After a lot of searching and reading I stumbled across Carl and his ledstuff.co.nz website. He really helped me select what LED lights I needed and has been very helpful. After sales service was also excellent and no-fuss-quick. So if you have [...]
Sky’s put together a nice piece/musings on why we need help if we have good UI design. It should give a lot of developers something to think about. It stresses the importance of design and designers in the IT trade. A developer is NOT a designer. Anyway have a read and think for yourself.
I always knew that broadband in NZ was not the cheapest of things in the world. I’m with Telstra and pay about $80/month for 2mibt up/10mbit downstream with a 20GB cap. That’s $4 per GB. In NZ terms that even is a good deal and I must say I’m happy with the technical service that [...]
I’m not what you’d call a normal car buff but the Tesla Model S is what I really want. With a price tag of US$50,000+ it falls into the BMW 5 Series or Mercedes E-Class range. It has looks that resemble a Maserati and the stamina that can make it an exceptional EV. I sure [...]
Please check out this mildly technical article about how Vista has a bug in the IPV4 implementation. Especially those people with big sites using loadbalancing and other techniques (e.g. BigIP’s from F5) should be aware of this. Windows 7 doesn’t seem to have the same bug though.Although the “Imminent Death of the Net Predicted” is [...]
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