Category: Computers

The Soap

December 14, 2006 - Computers , Technology - by admin - No Comments

The Soap is an item out of Microsoft Research, but they’ve put up the information on how to build one yourself. It looks like a really useful piece of kit, and I don’t think it’ll be long before we see commercial manufacturers of this sort of thing.

Free monitor

December 14, 2006 - Computers , Scotlug , Technology - by admin - No Comments

To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Free monitor Is anyone interested in a free 21″ Sony G500 monitor? It was great, and is a lovely flat screen CRT. http://lodge.glasgownet.com/~bagpuss/G500/ It has a slight glitch in that the picture has shifted an inch to the left, leaving it looking a compressed on the left, […]

Dealing with users

December 13, 2006 - Computers , People , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

What better way to deal with users, than with your very own Taser Cannon? 30 laser targeted taser darts each carrying 110kV at 15kA. Alternatively, for the more brutal amongst you, there is the 200mph 2×4 Pitching Machine. There are videos available

AJAX Talk

December 12, 2006 - Computers , Friends , Scotlug , Technology - by admin - 1 Comment

I’ve finally gotten around to transcoding it down from 700Mb to a more manageable 47Mb. It’s the AJAX talk Lawrence gave at the November Scotlug meet. [coolplayer width=”480″ height=”380″ autoplay=”0″ loop=”0″ charset=”utf-8″ download=”1″ mediatype=””] AJAX AJAX talk [/coolplayer]

Zenworks & DNS pain

December 4, 2006 - Computers , Novell , Technology , Zenworks - by admin - 1 Comment

I’ve been wondering for a while how to import workstations into Zen when they are in a different DNS zone from the server that should be handling them. For instance, we have all our workstations in ch.nes.scot.nhs.uk, yet their DNS search domain is nes.scot.nhs.uk, due to the servers having their […]