Monthly Archives: July 2008
Cool new search engine?
I guess everyone that has an interest in matters internet related already know that there is a new kid on the block in the search engine market. Go have a look at http://www.cuil.com if you haven’t done it yet.
Cuil claims to be the world’s biggest internet index. I don’t really care as long as I can get relevant results from them. Unfortunately the few searches I did, did not come close to giving me relevant (enough) results. There was also a problem that the same search would give different results on different occasions or even worse it would give results with say six pages and one of the pages would suddenly say We didn’t find any results for “foo" but all the other pages would have some results. Hopefully they will sort out these issues. more....
Cool Tech from Hack a day
Hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week. Have fun reading, I certainly do.
Hack a Day
Brushless gimbal 3D printed and bolted to quadcopter
Best robot demos from ICRA 2013
RedBull Creation 2013: final thoughts and recap
Pager message sniffing with RPi and SDR
Brushless motor camera gimbal
Causing trouble at RedBull Creation 2013
Modifying a CRT television for use as an arcade monitor
more....
Brushless gimbal 3D printed and bolted to quadcopter
Best robot demos from ICRA 2013
RedBull Creation 2013: final thoughts and recap
Pager message sniffing with RPi and SDR
Brushless motor camera gimbal
Causing trouble at RedBull Creation 2013
Modifying a CRT television for use as an arcade monitor
more....
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If you can read this, thank your sysadmin
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day You may ask “What is a System Administrator?” The answers you will find at http://www.sysadminday.com/ are as good as any. Being a System Administrator is a somewhat stressful job and turns you into a … Continue reading
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Tagged asr, computer, crash, e-mail, fun, luser, Mac, mail, scary devil monastery, stressful job, sysadmin, system administrator, system administrator appreciation day, user, work
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Running those legacy apps
Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I’m doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called … Continue reading
Africa from the rooftops
If you have a look at the page “Where I’ve been” you will see that I have traveled in most of Sub Saharan Africa. I travel in Africa for work, which is installing advertisement monitoring systems for one of my … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisement, africa, antenna, countries, experiences, internet, ivory coast, Mac, malawi, monitor, radio, rooftops, sub saharan africa, systems, Tech, television broadcasts, visa, war, Watch, work
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