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Oct 31st, 2005
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Yeah you’ve probably noticed some strange things going on around here. I sincerely apologise for any downtime we had, it was highly unintentional and the site should be functioning 100% as it was as of today. If it isn’t please do contact us so we know whats gone wrong.
Whats been going on?
Okay, we switched from Netfirms because it sucks. I’m not going to lie I’m going to say it straight. How can you have one of those ‘Wizard installs of WordPress’ without mod_rewrite!? I was stuck between renewing the account on there or moving to site5. It turned out to be...
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Oct 29th, 2005
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Test Facts:
The average score for the gals is 38, while the guy average is 56.
Of the Computer Geek Quiz Takers:
17% are scared of links
17% of Windows users curse it – Yes, I admit I am of this 17%
4% of Linux users selected Bill Gates as their hero
I am a Low-Rank Computer Geek
Yeah I know its prettey sad but element took it so I thought I might’swell. Crap i’m more geek then element! I knew I shouldn’t have lied on the test!
Go on Tibault, you know you want to!
Posted on
Oct 29th, 2005
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ROME (Reuters) – The city of Rome has banned goldfish bowls, which animal rights activists say are cruel, and has made regular dog-walks mandatory in the Italian capital, the town’s council said Tuesday.
–> Yahoo! News
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Oct 27th, 2005
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Peace be with you all
I have recently been working on a new plugin. I started this plugin because it is the month of Ramadan in the Hijri (Islamic) calendar and I thought it would be nice to show what was posted in each month on the Hijri Calendar. Thankfully I had already acquired a script which calculated the hijri date using PHP in the past so my main aim was to implement this in the plugin to make it calculate the hijri date as well as the georgian date.
This plugin is a much more complicated one then my first ones; Random Hadith and Random Qur’an. I wanted to be a little ambitious...
“A 122-year-old dairy equipment company has used embedded Linux in a robotic cow-milking system (the system is robotic, not the cows). The Voluntary Milking System (VMS) allows cows to decide when to be milked, and gives dairy farmers a more independent lifestyle, free from regular milkings, the company says. ” LinuxDevices
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Oct 22nd, 2005
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Okay, 3 years ago I was telling people my dad got a 5 Megapixel camera. It was quite a big deal. Don’t expect to see this in your local shop too soon, but Kodak has announced the highest resolution camera for the slightly more professional of photographers.
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Eastman Kodak Company has once again set the quality standard for digital imaging with new high-resolution image sensors that allow commercial, studio, and other professional photographers to capture digital images with the most life-like detail possible. These new products strengthen Kodak’s position...
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Oct 20th, 2005
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FireFox reaches 100,000,000 Downloads, 19/10/2005!
Slashdot
Posted on
Oct 19th, 2005
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“As of today, UK Gmail users are seeing ‘Google Mail’ at the top of their Gmail accounts, and Google is warning they may lose their ‘@gmail.com’ addresses in the future. All new signups from the UK will be assigned ‘@googlemail.com’ addresses, and existing accounts will be able to use either domain for now. Gmail’s help pages explain this is related to their ongoing dispute regarding the Gmail trademark.”
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Unfortunately, we don’t know.
It looks like i’m a bit of a mess. I really do not wish to lose my @gmail addresses. I had...