Archive for April, 2005

Freakin' Auction Listings

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Freakin' eBay listing spam

Every time I search for stuff these days and it happens to be remotely saleable, I seem to get tonnes of freakin’ auction listing pages in my search results. I’m talking about the [very often poorly designed] pages people have made with a shit load of eBay auction listings on them that barely match my search query anyway, grrrr.

Man, if I was looking to buy something on eBay, I would be running my search query on freakin’ eBay! I really wish Google would add an “exclude auction listings” from my results checkbox somewhere—that would make my day!

iPod's, Podcasting & iTunes Phones

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

I have say podcasting is rather cool, there is some really interesting content out there. Podcasts are like an audio magazine subscription that automatically updates with the current issue as they are released.

Also, on the topic of serious coolness Motorola is developing an iTunes phone—that’s right folks, an iPod and a cell phone in one device. Bloody brilliant if you ask me :)

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Slip Into Something More Comfortable

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Windows XPOne of the best features of recent Microsoft installers, is the ability to Slipstream Service Packs and Hotfixes into the base install CD, so when you install the application or OS it’s already updated. I’m getting ready for a reinstall of XP, and found the following link while downloading updates and drivers last night—sheer brilliance.

Automatically Slipstream Windows XP with SP2 and All Critical Post-SP2 Hotfixes with a Single Command.

I used the console cmd file, since I don’t have Cygwin (a unix runtime environment for windows), and I used Easy CD Creator to burn the result back to a bootable cdrom. The cdrom boot sector settings for a Windows XP are below.

  • No Emulation
  • Load Segment: 0x7c0
  • Sector Count: 4

Departure Lounge

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

Air Tahiti

Well not even close… Every year before I head back to the northern hemisphere from our little corner of the south pacific, I start having these dreams about missing my flight. The usual scenario is it’s 30 minutes, an hour, whatever to departure and I haven’t packed and am nowhere near the airport…

In last night’s instalment I end up at the Hawaiian Airlines terminal, but I’m not even going to Hawaii. Some how I’d mixed up Hawaiian with Air Tahiti, and what use would all this French I’ve been learning be there, they don’t even speak French in Hawaii?! After finally arriving at the Air Tahiti terminal, I end up pleading with the attendant to be able to take the next flight, however it’s a no go…

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