Category Archives: Technology

TLAs [rant]

Dear Acronym ministries, The glossy A3 poster for the conference you sent me looks fascinating. But I’ve never heard of your organisation. The acronym appears 6 times on the flyer. I went to your acronym.org website, and couldn’t find out … Continue reading

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What is using up all my disk space? (Linux)

Running out of hard disk space is a common problem – Linux is not immune! To see your hard disk usage, open up a shell (eg: ‘gnome-terminal’) and run: df -h (the -h option puts the results in a human … Continue reading

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 Release Notes

I am using this right now and am extremely impressed at how snappy my Google Mail is, even over my crusty wireless connection. Google docs is sweeter and snappier also. Thank you Mozilla! Go open source! [Improved in Beta 5] … Continue reading

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Apple Are Proprietary

They are doing the proprietary thing better than anyone else. They are Microsoft’s worst enemy. They will rule the technology world… until patent-free cost-free code-free modification-unlimited free software does. It could take 30 years. It could take 10 if copylefted … Continue reading

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AAPT Tech Support Experience

I’m trying to change plans on our church’s ADSL account. We need more speed as we have alot of new staff using our wireless access from their offices this year. This should be fairly easy, I’ve got a world class … Continue reading

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Postpone Email Sending in Gmail?

Over at Google Blogoscoped there is a discussion about whether Gmail should have a feature called: Postpone Email Sending I think this is a must have feature for any email client, especially if the interface was simple and quick. Apparently … Continue reading

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One Laptop per Child

If you haven’t seen it on TV, check out the web site for the one laptop per child project. The best thing is that it is running Linux, so even if the users don’t end up liking the corny interface, … Continue reading

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Torvalds pans Apple with ‘utter crap’ putdown – Technology – smh.com.au

“An operating system should be completely invisible,” he said. “To Microsoft and Apple (it is) a way to control the whole environment … to force people to upgrade their applications and hardware.” Preach it brother! Source: Torvalds pans Apple with … Continue reading

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I bought a Mac mini!

I have been caught in the ipod trap. After a couple of years of trying to use cheap nasty mp3 players, I bought an ipod for my birthday last year. Of course I became a huge fan of Apple’s beautiful … Continue reading

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Google Docs and WordPress

I’m a big fan of Google Docs. I put many important spreadsheets and documents on there so I will never lose them again. Apparently you can even post to blogs from it!

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Interesting Wikipedia Articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_%28haircut%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_%28plumbing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Special_Person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_misquotations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103 (funny international standard)

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Consolidated the blogs

I have consolidated my 2.1 blogs into this one page. If you came here looking for an article from http://wayne.schuller.id.au or http://techthoughts.schuller.id.au you will find it but you have to look for it. (I don’t have time to figure out … Continue reading

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The Internet wins again

I’ve found out why my computer keeps crashing randomly – very annoying for a linux user! It is because of Antec power supply problems.

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Is Google watching your hands or reading your brain!?

I just realised Google even detects when your hands are in the wrong place on the keyboard! For example, if you are a touch typer, but you accidently have your right hand placed one key too far to the left, … Continue reading

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Website Review: “Whirlpool – Australian Broadband News”

Whirlpool is an amazing establishment. It is basically the place to go if you are interested in the state of broadband in Australia, or anything to do with the internet or computer technology. If you are interested in finding a … Continue reading

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The Future of Television

I have discovered the future of TV. It is beyond BitTorrent, beyond digital broadcasting. What if you could achieve the following: – Watch nearly any TV show at any time in any place – Only requires a dialup connection, not … Continue reading

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Another faddish bandwagon or The End Of The World As We Know It?

I hated the Y2K bug movement. I hated the hype. I laughed at people stocking up on food and water. I worked in the IT industry and everyone in the industry knew it was a joke, albeit a very good … Continue reading

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Instant photocopier!

One reason I bought a cheap scanner was so I could do some simple photocopying. I already have a good black and white laser printer, so I didn’t want to invest in a multifunction printer or photocopier. So with a … Continue reading

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Get Perpendicular!

Sometime soon we will have 1 terabyte hard drives on our home pc’s. And even better, tiny mp3 player microdrives will have 20gig capacity!! This alone is newsworthy, but Hitachi have also been able to provide this marketing breakthrough animation: … Continue reading

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Mini Review of Google Print

Is there anything Google can’t do? They keep doing amazing things. I already love Google Print. It allows you to do full text searches on books, real paper books! e.g.: Do you want to find a quote from Peter Adam’s … Continue reading

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