Need a bigger truck? These things aren’t road legal yet, but give it time… T 282 B
Posted by akaDruid on 27 Nov 2004 at 01:11 am
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Quite the funniest and scariest random quote generator I’ve seen all day: The David Blunkett Policy Maker. Generates liberty-removing policies at the press of a button – and is quite capeable of accidently creating real home office polices.
Here’s the linkage:
qwghlm.co.uk: blunkett policy maker
Posted by akaDruid on 24 Nov 2004 at 12:11 pm
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Andrew Orlowski from the Register makes some very good points about the future of music sales. Like everyone else, he’s strong on the doom and gloom and weak on the decisive answers, but we he does say is good. It’s time to start pushing services and value-added, and time to start dropping those licenses. The music biz needs to look at why google is scaring MS and Yahoo. Google is making real money by getting better and doing more for less, while MS and Yahoo are trying to make their money by restricting people, making them pay more for less.
This is why I’m paying for a quality service from allofmp3.com, and not sponsering yet another pop-idol program. When I see a fast, easy to use, comprehensive and cheap online music store open from a British retailer, I’ll be right back. When the music industry becomes Google instead of microsoft, they’ll be getting my money.
How the music biz can live forever, get even richer, and be loved | The Register
Posted by akaDruid on 22 Nov 2004 at 02:11 pm
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Hehe. This one was a royal pain to get working but it just goes to show what you can do when you put your mind to it!
I was thinking of games that my gf could play on my PC, and guessed what popped into my head. One of my favourite games from my 386/Win95 days. Only problem, it won’t run on Windows XP. at all. So, with a little hacking, and a couple of downloads, here’s the answer:
Bullfrog’s Theme Park for DOS, running on Windows XP!
I don’t think anyone’s successfully done this before – or at least I couldn’t find it by googling.
Here’s how I did it.
Download this program:
DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS
insert theme park cd
in dosbox, type the following commands in order:
mount c c:\dosprog
mount d d:d:
setup
that should launch the theme park setup alright
then set the sound and music to soundblaster 16, install dir to c:\theme.cd and then choose ’save and install’, then exit.
then type the following commands:
c:
cd theme.cd
theme
that should work.
I also used the excellent D-fend v2 to create a profile for this game, allowing me to launch it transparently from a desktop shortcut.
I just hope my gf likes the game now!
EDIT: actually, just discovered dosbox themselves list theme park as a supported app, so I guess at least a few people have tried this before! Still, I’m pleased I got it working, let’s see what the gf thinks! Here’s the link: Bullfrog Theme Park on Windows XP, via dosbox
Posted by akaDruid on 17 Nov 2004 at 01:11 am
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Another great tool for syncing and general playing around with your sony ericsson via bluetooth is floAts’s Mobile Agent, a GPLed and very tasty looking application on sourceforge. only problem? like everything bluetooth related (or mobile phone related) it’s a cast iron pig to get working.
One day, mobile phones will manage to provide really useful services without requiring get ripped off by the con-artists that flood the business, or reading dozens of pdf only unintelligable papers produced by ’standards bodies’.
I mean, how difficult can it be? I own a mobile phone and various computers. They are clearly capeable of commicating – All I need now is a simple, sero-cost method of syncronising very common styles of data between the two. Surely almost everyone would like to able to do this. Anyway, the struggle continues.
I’ve got a screenie of my latest start page, which manages to combine a lot of what I am after into a single resource, accessable from anywhere. This uses FOF as the back end for the newsreader rather than booby, since I like the caching function of FOF. The bookmarks are static at the moment, until I get around to sorting out my folders on booby into a useful order.
When I’m finally finished with this, it will provide a custom start page after the style of MS outlook or evolution’s start page. Emphesis will be on providing me with all my vital information and web-based tools with maximum speed and minimum fuss.
Posted by akaDruid on 15 Nov 2004 at 03:11 pm
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Here are two more possible ideas for my setup:
MultiSync – A Synchronization Tool
The Horde framework, with a whole suite of web applications, as a possible alternative to booby.
Posted by akaDruid on 08 Nov 2004 at 04:11 pm
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This post on Laughing Meme has some great ideas and links about syncing Outlook with the outside world.
LaughingMeme: An Open Source Outlook Sync Tool?
This will help me, since I have rather complicated requirements for my PIM (Personal Information Manager) data.
I currently require, at least, to synchronise contact and calender information between 4 PIM tools:
1. Whatever tools my company provide, since they disapprove of unsanctioned software (currently MS Outlook 2000).
2. High quality, Open Source software for my home system, since I support the open source movement, and I have little money for software (currently Mozilla Thunderbird and Sunbird).
3. A secure, private, and customisable web based tool (looking like Booby atm).
4. My mobile phone, since I spend a fair bit of time away from any computer (currently a Sony-Ericsson K700i, which supports SyncML)
I also require a solid backup and recovery plan from inception, since I plan on becoming somewhat dependent on this, as a replacement for my bad memory, and I don’t want any disasters.
Posted by akaDruid on 08 Nov 2004 at 04:11 pm
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I’ve decided in short order that it would be much better to integrate booby with and existing PHP based webmail system, such as SquirrelMail. Another potentially useful tool, to maybe integrate into booby is PHPSysInfo.
Posted by akaDruid on 05 Nov 2004 at 03:11 pm
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It does make you wonder… These people have invented a new kind of Time… and copyrighted it. You can contact them to discuss royalties if you wish to use it…
I might try and patent a new date system, and sell that.
Anyway, here’s the link:
New Earth Time … 360 degrees of internet time
EDIT: ‘This people’… ?? man I need to learn to type or proofread or both.
Posted by akaDruid on 05 Nov 2004 at 01:11 am
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OK, well that solves that one. People do spam your referrer logs. Enter one .htaccess file, stage left. Maybe a robots.txt file will help in the future, but locking it down will instantly stop the requests they were making too, so no more problem.
Amazing what they think of these days.
Referrer Spam – Why you shouldn’t publish your Web logs – Best Practices Search Engine Forums
Posted by akaDruid on 04 Nov 2004 at 01:11 pm
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