Google Earth – Almost a Great ProgramGoogle Earth – Almost a Great Program
My mother just asked me to get Google Earth (link to download page [1]) working on her machine so she can see where my sister [2] lives. So I download[...]
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Gear Acquisition SyndromeGear Acquisition Syndrome
I have just read an interesting post about Gear Acquisition Syndrome [1] as applied to the guitar industry. Apparently it’s common for people to spend a lot of time and[...]
Dead LinksDead Links
I’ve found a reasonably good free spider for checking for dead links, www.dead-links.com. When I told it to spider my main site www.coker.com.au it worked well and informed me of[...]
Optus Password changemeOptus Password changeme
I have just given my parents a new computer, and part of the upgrade process lost their email passwords (which were stored in KDE preferences – this seems to happen[...]
Hot-swap StorageHot-swap Storage
I recently had to decommission an old Linux server and replace it with a new machine. When I was about to turn it off I noticed a power cable of[...]
A Great Advertising Web SiteA Great Advertising Web Site
The site noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com is an advert for a book of short stories. The web site is funny and quirky (two qualities that are required for a site to become virally[...]
The Principles of StupidityThe Principles of Stupidity
We always underestimate the number of stupid people The probability of a person being stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person A stupid person is someone who[...]
Small PC for Creating Word FilesSmall PC for Creating Word Files
A friend recently asked for advice on a “REALLY small laptop/word processor thingy that would pretty much fit into a (big) pocket, and that only needs to write/word process“. The[...]
ECC RAM in a Cheap MachineECC RAM in a Cheap Machine
In a comment on my previous post about ECC RAM someone commented that Dell sells PowerEdge desktop machines with ECC RAM. I visited the Dell web site and found that[...]
Hot WaterHot Water
A response to a post I wrote about things to do for the environment suggested that there would be a health risk to lowering the temperature of a home hot-water[...]