Category: Technical
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The Asus Effect
[UPDATE 25/07/12: It would appear that only a few days after this post, Rovio silently updated their Amazing Alex page to support the Asus tablets. My TF101 Transformer is now listed as a supported device. I downloaded the non-HD version last night and played through the tutorial levels without a hitch. I wonder if we’ll
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Hacked
Well that was depressing. I checked my website for the first time today for a while and discovered that I’d been hacked. A now defaced Scaine.net was now displaying the picture of a popular horror icon and not a lot else. Judging from the Live HTTP headers, it looks like it just made a few
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Ubuntu in the Corporate
I’ve been using Ubuntu 11.04 in the corporate environment for over a year now and this post will attempt to summarise the frankly disappointing state of affairs that is “linux in the corporate environment”. Thumnbnails Such a little thing – getting a thumbnail for your images, videos or office documents. In Windows, once a directory
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Apple vs Google
How can I defend Google while slating Apple? How can someone put Apple down for their “we know better” walled-garden approach to the AppStore, the iPhone and iPad, while on the other hand defend Google’s invasive “if you need something to be private, you probably shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” attitude? It’s
