Technology, media, architecture & strategy
I remain a fan of the ASUS eee series. Further to my old eee, I have now picked up a new T91.
The specs:
Intel Atom Z520 Processor
1GB RAM
16GB solid state drive, 16GB SD Card, 20GB Eee Storage
8.9″ LED-lit resistive touchscreen
Windows XP Home
WLAN 802.11b/g/n (draft)
225mm x 164mm x 25.2-28.4mm
0.96 kg weight
To use a quote that illustrates my own view in many ways:
The two worlds are diverging rapidly. Traditional enterprise software development (the kind associated with “programming in the large”) tends to be slow, costly, inflexible. Solution sales, marketing, and support tend to be correspondingly process-heavy and inertia-laden. The Web, on the other hand, is agile, [...]
I am going to mention a third party commercial site. I have just used Jiibe where one of their online tools helped me compare my current workplace to my ideal workplace.
Honestly I found it quite enlightening. Scientific? Perhaps not as there were far too few questions to normalise the results using their anonymous service but [...]
Yes, I am still working through that Linux server I inherited without adequate documentation. So my next step is to find out the hardware specification of the server.
CPU info:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ‘model name’
Memory info:
cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree
Storage info:
cat /proc/partitions
hdparm -I /dev/sda
I am feeling really frustrated today.
I have been interacting with some organisations here in Queensland that feel that feel that web accessibility does not apply to them.
Can I point out that:
Under section 67(1)(k) of the Disability Discrimination Act, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Hreoc) issues guidelines for the purpose of avoiding discrimination [...]
I am always tweaking images for one reason or another, sometimes for a client sometimes for me, but this looks handy…
Sumopaint is a fast, easy, simple but powerful image editing software.
Try it out here: http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint
As a symptom of developing applications I have dealt with a lot of reporting and BI tools. From Cognos through to Crystal and others. But last night I finally spun up Pentaho.
Wow. I was impressed.
I grabbed their Reporting Evaluation tool and had it up and running in no time. I hooked up a MySQL datasource [...]
Assuming you have already grabbed PuTTY, you can generate a key with PuTTY using the instructions below:
Run puttygen.exe
In the “Parameters” section select your encryption standard, I use SSH2 DSA. Press Generate.
Move your mouse randomly in the small screen in order to generate the key pairs.
Enter a key comment, which will serve to identify the key [...]
Ok, it does seem a strange question to be asked, but this seriously has happened to me too.
I have just been handed a system without anything – no documentation, no history, no specifications, and no technical information or staff at all.
So what is the command to find out? Just type this below:
uname -a && cat [...]
I am a member of WIPA and I am on the WIPA Accessibility email list. I thought I would post this excellent WCAG 2.0 resource that appeared on this list on 17 September 2008:
from Roger Hudson
date Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM
subject [WIPA Accessibility] forms and WCAG 2.0
In June I prepared a paper for [...]