Meteor mobile broadband.
hooked my laptop up to my phone with a usb cable. so i now have internet at home, wahey! here are my stats from speedtest.net, bathe in their glory ;-) Hot shit no? My emails are blazing down in mere minutes!
Category: Review
Firefox v4
Upgraded to Firefox v4 there last night. Seems to want to crash all over the shop. It’s also using a whopping 400+ MBs of ram. I’d recommend any Firefox users delay their upgrade until next incremental release, at least (version 4.1?). Other than that, the GUI interface now resembles Google Chrome. There is also built-in…
“C Programming in Linux” by David Haskins. An alternative to “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie
I found this great book for learning C. Lesson 1 is the usual “hello world” console app, but literally the next example dives into using it as a CGI script. It teaches all the usual C console output stuff, but concentrates on web programming with C and apache web server. This is great, as the…
Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Review
I’ve owned a 1TB Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (hmnhd for short) for about a year now. It’s damned handy for sharing media files between my computers (and housemates). In fact, if it was feasible, i would use a network hard drive for all my data across machines and OSes. There are however drawbacks.…
Stanton Final Scratch 2
have had the stanton box, timecode records, and a zillion leads sitting in it’s box for nearly 3 years. just got the correct firewire lead for it, *and* ditched trying to get the software that came with it to work. i don’t like using illegal software, but in this case it was actually the only…
thomann.de delivery!!!
excitement overload as this box appears GOODS! YAY! playtime!gotta fix up my big PC box first tho.. update: installed new system fan and disabled on-board graphics. still givin me jip. unpacked my new AKG 601s. incredibly comfortable so far, nice big cushions, circumaural design covers the ears well. con: lead is well embedded in there,…