Category Archives: Stuff

WordPress does LaTeX

Posted on 20110329 by Grumpy Old Techie

While I was setting up another wordpress site today, I found out to my great surprise that WordPress can actually do markup by simply installing the jetpack plugin. For those that don’t know, is a computer typesetting system that really … Continue reading →

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Battery Centre needs the Battery University

Posted on 20090617 by Grumpy Old Techie

About two and a half years ago Battery Centre sold me me a silver calcium battery for my car. According to them silver calcium batteries are the best thing in lead acid battery technology since Gaston Planté made the first … Continue reading →

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The internet is a scary place!

Posted on 20090505 by Grumpy Old Techie

If you are an IT professional providing customers with Internet connectivity solutions you know that the internet is a scary place. Back in the dark ages (before 1993) when things started out everyone using the internet trusted each other. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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Will they ever learn?

Posted on 20090404 by Grumpy Old Techie

The big media companies and their cronies are getting more and more desperate to try save their totally outdated business model. Modern computers make it ridiculously easy and cheap to copy and distribute any media. The media companies are however … Continue reading →

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Curse Of Silence

Posted on 20090311 by Grumpy Old Techie

While browsing through hack a day yesterday I found this Nokia smartphone vulnerability. If you go to the link you will notice that it was the Chaos Computer Club that published the vulnerability. I have written about them before and … Continue reading →

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