Online Regular Expression tester

Online Regular Expression tester

from the handy-tools-for-geeks dept.

While writing some scripts today, I found this Online Regular Expression tester quite useful. Probably no use whatsoever to non-geeks, but us techies may find it a handy tool....

[Listening to: THE UK HARDCORE SHOW 30 - AUG-05 ]

Google Talk

Google Talk
from the chat-happy dept.
Google have just launched their new Instant Messenger (despite denying they were making one). Its called Google Talk and appears to be based on Jabber, which means it works with any Jabber compatible client, such as GAIM (instructions for setting it up in GAIM here. Seems to be restricted to Gmail users at the moment, and the voice chat capabilities are only available using the official Windows-only client.

Passing comments

Passing comments

from the all-talk dept.

Thanks to Holger, author of BlogKomm, for dropping by and adding some hints on fixing it on my site, I now have comments enabled again.

[Listening to: sinikol - dynamic dosage]

Toothache

Toothache

from the ouch! dept.

Got a painful toothache, where my bottom left wisdom tooth hasn't come through properly. Gonna have to get that seen to methinks.

[Listening to: M.U.S.E And DJ San - Dendera [A-Side Promo] ]

Network reloaded

Network reloaded

from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

Fixed everything except the Postfix stuff. A few uninstalls/reinstalls/reboots got things working again. Pretty much have a LAMP server on my laptop working now. The world is suddenly a better place

[Listening to: Gary D. & Dr. Z - Elevate your mind ]

Network woes

Network woes

from the missed-connections dept

Can't get an SSH session to my laptop today. PHP won't work in Apache, Postfix locks up, no ping responses from laptop to desktop. I bloody hate networking! This all worked fine Friday and I've not changed anything

Blogger comments

Blogger comments

from the where-is-the-feedback? dept.

Still can't make Blogger's comments system work. Grrr

Speed monkey

Speed monkey

from the wh00sh! dept.

I have a suspicion that BT have upgraded my line to 2mbps. Which is nice.

Another day, another virus

Another day, another virus

from the dreaded-lurgy dept.

A new virus hit a bunch of our servers at work today. Annoying, but makes me glad my own machines run Linux. To that end, I created this wallpaper [click to enlarge]

[Listening to: Kid Vicious - Proceed (original mix) ]

Ext2/3 driver for Windows

Ext2/3 driver for Windows
There's a few ways of doing this (strange as it may seem, I use a commercial product - yes, Mr Open Source!), but some guy has done an Ext2 filesystem driver for Windows (also works for ext3 if you read the FAQ), using Microsoft's Installable File System SDK.

Another bite of the Apple

Another bite of the Apple

from the mmmm-fruity dept.

Turned my hand to a little more development on the Apple Mac, this time using the Cocoa# libraries. Initially just tried the simple tutorial from their wiki page. Glad to see it worked, although admittedly the app doesn't actually do much. Nice proof-of-concept though

Spreading the word

Spreading the word

from the get-it-out-there dept.

Finally got my Ubuntu Linux official pressed CDs today, so now its time for some shamelss Linux evangelism!

Oops!

Oops!

from the if-it-ain't-broke dept.

This blog is currently experiencing technical difficulties (ie, I broke the template and have put this basic one in its place for now!).

UPDATE: got it fixed for now, but still not got the comments in place for the time being

Windows Vista Beta 1

Windows Vista Beta 1

from the does-that-make-it-VB 1-dept ?

Don't panic, I've not forgone my lovely Linux for the new version of Windoze, but Ben at work has spent the last couple of hours waiting for it to install on his laptop. Sheesh, I coulda installed a dozen laptops with Linux in that time.

Some like it hot

Some like it hot

from the burn-baby-burn dept.

If, like me, you like a little kick to the taste of your food, you could do worse than go to San Diego, where you'll find this little shop. Gotta love the legal waiver for the serious sauces - you know how litigious the Americans can be!

No comment

No comment

from the silence-is-golden dept.

My old mate RetroGamerUK reminded me that the comments script was broken. In the process of upgrading it to the latest version, I made it even more broken than it already was. For the time being I've turned it all off, but I have abackup of past comments. WIll fix it when I get time.

NiceGuyUK's first law of BitTorrent

NiceGuyUK's first law of BitTorrent

from the so-near-and-yet-so-far dept.

Is it me, or do all BitTorrent downloads stop when they get between 90 and 100% ? You've almost got that file you wanted, when it grinds to a halt and all peers have disappeared, never to return to the internet ever again. Bloody annoying that!

[Listening to: nothing, cos BitTorrent stopped downloading the tune I wanted! ]