Archive for May, 2005

When a time server is more talkative than expected

Friday, May 27th, 2005

When a time server is more talkative than expected:

I ran across an entry on a wifi interaction project site, that discusses the NTP server, time.nist.gov. It seems to know more than the time.

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Prediction for IS3 2005

Friday, May 20th, 2005

During the IS3 revision lecture, I took some notes. This post is a summary of those notes.

Disclaimer: They may be completely wrong, I have had to attempt to decipher my handwriting.

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Flickr images on Google Maps == geobloggers.com

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Take a photo, upload it to Flickr, add latitude and longitude and tag it geotagged: watch www.geobloggers.com

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Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

I frequently move around my virtual desk space, when using DCS Lab computers, or my own computer. It’s second nature to me. I organise my windows, each has it’s place.

So naturally, when using a library Windows 2000 machine, I attempted to switch to an empty workspace… and recieved a blue screen of death for my efforts. Instant and immediate B.S.O.D. and reboot - complete loss of all data since last backup. (KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) - Or something similar.

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