The official Chrome Extensions page is coming and soon I’ll be seriously considering making a switch to my default browser setting. While Chromium (the open source component of Chrome) is a fantastically speedy, low memory and nimble browser it’s lack of extensions if the main thing holding me back from making the fully committed switch. [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2009
For Science!
A couple of stories recently have gotten me thinking about the process of doing science and how it may change in the coming years. The current approach is to spend time doing your research and once your happy you have a defensible theory you write a paper explaining what you did and submit it to [...]
Waterfalls
We spend Saturday visiting the big smoke for a birthday party and house warming. For Graeme’s birthday we frequented a cordoned off area of an Ausie Sports bar to watch the two Rugby international. England where predictably beaten although managed to hold onto their dignity up until the last twenty minutes when it all went [...]
Would you accept a patch like this?
Wow, I actually found something that netcat can’t do. — netcat-openbsd-1.89/netcat.c 2009-11-20 17:44:40.000000000 +0000 +++ netcat-openbsd-1.89.patched/netcat.c 2009-11-20 17:43:35.000000000 +0000 @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ /* Command Line Options */ int Cflag = 0; /* CRLF line-ending */ +int cflag = 0; /* CR line-ending */ int dflag; /* detached, no stdin */ int iflag; /* Interval [...]
Ripping PS3 compatible MP4s
There are literally hundreds of scripts and tools for encoding stuff to various compressed video formats. However I was never able to find something that did exactly what I wanted and until recently just did everything from the command line with mencoder. Eventually I got tired of the copy and paste and scripted stuff up [...]
Restoring GUI connectivity from screen
GNU Screen is one of the most useful tools in my arsenal. In the days before I used screen I used to make extensive use of Gnome Terminal’s multiple tab functionality. I’d have one tab for edit/commit commands, one for running code, others for watching logs and the plethora of other tasks you may be [...]
Thinking about email
I saw a post on my feeds today discussing a new email client called notmuch which set me thinking about my own use of email. I have three primary ways of accessing email at the moment. On my domain I run Mutt in a screen session. At work I have the GUI behemoth that is [...]
Film Review: Dark Star
As part of our wandering approach exploring film rental the latest instalment to drop on the door mat was John Carpenter‘s Dark Star. It’s a weird black comedy about a bunch of bored stoners, some sentient bombs and strange beach ball aliens aboard a deep space planetary destroyer. As it was Carpenter’s first film, and [...]
Partaaaay Aftermarth
Well this weekend was filled with the preparation, execution and aftermath of our House Warming party. Fliss finished a number of final touches to curtains, clothes racks, and other such details while I pottered around moving cardboard to the outbuildings and ordering two polypins of local ale to keep people suitably lubricated. We had a [...]
SIM Troubles
My SIM card is starting to show it’s age and refusing to allow my phone to connect to the network. It’s not surprising as the thing is fairly old having had it since I first joined T-Mobile. I managed to order a new SIM yesterday throwing only a minor strop when they suggested I pay [...]
