Computing

Monday 01.09.2008

The mouldy growths of old forgotten forums

8:17 pm

One of my client’s servers I have been working on had started to suffer constant drop outs. What normally loads up in a flash now just .. doesn’t. Whilst static pages loaded fine, albeit slower than usual, most PHP pages seemed to just time out. More specifically, the pages that needed to access the database [...]

Monday 25.08.2008

Green Shuttle

4:44 am

This would be great as a home server box acting as a router/file server, being very economical with power usage. Based on the Intel Atom processor, the Shuttle x27 will idle at 23 watts, and will consume 36 watts when in use, and is reportedly quieter than your bedroom.

No idea on how much the x27 [...]

Friday 08.08.2008

Difficulties of choosing a content management system

6:10 am

How difficult can it be to settle on a system?
I have been evaluating different CMSes for various projects I am working on, and I can tell you, there is no such thing as a perfect CMS! For the uninitiated (and there will be!), a content management system (CMS for short) helps web site operators write [...]

Thursday 03.07.2008

Notes on column ratios

2:11 pm

I needed an idea of the pixels used for different column ratios, so I’ve taken the liberty of working out the possible layouts needed. I’ve limited these to 4 columns, and I’ve also listed some extra rounding to the nearest ten/five for neatness.
The pixel ratios are based on a width of 900 pixels.
Full ratio list

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Sunday 03.06.2007

Gates vs Jobs at All Things D

3:13 am

Here is the interview meet-up between Mossberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, at the All Things D conference:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/when-two-worlds-collide/gates-vs-jobs-the-complete-videos-264788.php
Note that you might need to let it stream (pause) for a bit before viewing, unless you have some pretty high bandwidth (5mbps+?). You can read a semi-transcript from Engadget.
Despite what the ‘I hate/love MS/Apple’ camps might [...]