Archive for April, 2009

Alfie Arrives!

Date April 15th, 2009 Comment 3 Comments

Everyone say a big hello to Alfie, our new addition!
He was born on 9th April 2009 at 14:26, and weighed 6lb 10oz.
Laura and Alfie are both doing fine.
I’ve posted some photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/www.ne0ge0.com/Alfie

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Customize the Office HP Printer’s Console Message

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment No Comments

Baffle your coworkers with an "Insert Coin" message on the office printer using the HP Printer Job Language (HPPJL) command set.

[Via: Lifehacker]

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Upside-Down-Ternet

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment No Comments

Clever network admin Pete decided to mess with his wifi-piggybacking neighbors by flipping all the images they’d see on web pages upside down.

[Via: Lifehacker]

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Software Defection

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment No Comments

I changed some of my “default” software (the applications I install on my vanilla Windows) recently, based on the previous post.

TextPad out; NotePad++ in. TextPad is proprietary, NotePad++ is freeware (this seems to be a theme), and TextPad doesn’t seem to be updated very frequently
Paint Shop Pro out; GIMP in. When PSP was owned by [...]

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Portable Apps

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment 1 Comment

I recently purchased a small funky rubber USB flash drive from Integral with a view to making it a platform for storing portable applications, i.e., applications that can be executed directly from the drive without installing anything on the host machine. This is especially useful for anti-malware and browser or email apps.
Here’s a few select [...]

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