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I’ve decided to take my short URL generator and make it open-source. This is for a number of reasons, but I think primarily because I’m emigrating, and sometimes you need to just let things go. ShutOff 2000’s code will also become open source when I release ShutOff 2010 (that’s a long story – don’t ask).Continue reading NCANE.COM going open source
As the founder of the Smiters of Iniquity, I hereby smite all spammers. Yesterday, ncane.com and I were targeted by spammers, where a spam email went out to (I expect) thousands of people, purporting to be from me (including my personal details from public DNS records), and a short URL generated by ncane.com. An over-eagerContinue reading I smite thee, spammers
Honda SA has announced today a safety recall of the previous generation Jazz to inspect and modify driver door power-window switches that may, in some cases, short circuit as a result of water intrusion into the housing. (Source: Honda website.)
I’m not going to defend it or blast it. Enough words have already been written about it. What I am going to say is that I like it and I want one. I’ll even get word processor and spreadsheet apps. I don’t see the need for multi-tasking, because it’s not a tablet PC. And IContinue reading Apple iPad
My boss convinced me this week to demo the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to our team, so that they can get a basic handle on why I think SQL Server 2000 should be buried. The big day is on 27 January, and I have 45 minutes in which to make theContinue reading SQL Server 2008 R2 demo
It’s 2010, and has been for two weeks. I have not made much progress since I last checked in on this. Perhaps I can use some of this weekend to catch up. The snag I ran into in December, which is holding up the release, relates to a Microsoft DLL change between Windows XP andContinue reading ShutOff 2010
Tonight, I completed a second conversion of someone else’s Simple PHP Blog to WordPress. As regular readers know, I developed a C# Windows app to do this for myself, last year. However it is certainly not production-ready, so two separate websites had to be assisted manually with the conversion. Their common issue is that theyContinue reading Another Simple PHP Blog converted
I had to validate my data recovery today. Imagine my surprise that they recovered a Mac partition. This drive was my external Mac drive *before* it became an internal NTFS drive, after which I copied my data to it, at which point it failed. So tonight is going to be interesting as I go deeperContinue reading Drive recovery
Everyone has a thing they don’t mention, but it can consume a large part of their life. In my case, it is a planned emigration. The process is arduous and time-consuming, and we happen to be on the fast track. It’s been almost a year, and looks to eclipse the twelve-month barrier if the visasContinue reading That thing we don’t mention
The first thing you’ll notice is the name: ShutOff 2000. I decided that “ITS ShutOff Professional” didn’t roll off the tongue as easily. Plus, there’s so much branding inherent in the original name, that changing it seemed foolish. I wrote quite extensively on this new .NET version in a recent post, as well as theContinue reading ShutOff 2000 is almost here