March 24, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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I had looked at this a while ago but gave up thinking it was too hard, too time consuming. It still is.
To begin with, Subversion, or SVN, is a version control system, typical used by programmers and the like. I have previously used it professionally, and came to the conclusion that I needed to start documenting a website I look after and make changes to pretty often. Continue Reading →
February 16, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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Quick heads up.
In TMG 2010, in the Toolbox sidebar, if you run “Export All” on a Network Object (e.g. Domain Name Sets or URL Sets), it doesn’t export “all”.
This function exports “all objects that are currently assigned to a rule”.
Not “all” in the English sense, everything, all encompassing, etc etc.
To re-iterate, if a URL or Domain Name set is not assigned to a Web Access/Firewall Policy, it will not be exported if you Export All on that type of network object.
Gotcha.
January 25, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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After getting my Logitech G27 through these guys, for what I thought was a massively discounted price (see my previous post on this), I waited, and waited, for indication of how the promotional price was applied – it appeared to me to be $344.95, delivered – and there were no details as to how this price were applied etc. So I bought the wheel assuming I would just get a cash back offer or something…
Cue email to LogitechShop sales department. I pretty much asked, where’s my cash back?
I received a phone call very shortly after this, and the guy on the other end let me know of the Facebook promo, in all it’s details etc (I was a bit frustrated – apologies sir).
Unbeknown to me, the promotion was for Facebook users only. A special coupon code was apparently posted up there, and not being a “liker” of their page at the time, I was not privy to this.
I was like, “err, yeah, okay, I was wrong, it’s all good, don’t worry about it”, but the guy wouldn’t have a bar of it, and proceeded to give me a store credit.
So. Free plug right here for LogitechShop.com.au. I will certainly be making my next Logitech purchase from you guys! And a massive thanks for the prompt and professional customer service.
January 21, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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Last two positions I have applied for/gotten, I was scooped up with enthusiasm. I’ve seen my fair share of IT resumes (not so much as a recruiter, but advising on appropriate skills – usually to replace me), and it’s fairly evident that in most cases, the resumes were extremely basic in presentation.
Simple bold text, black and white, and nothing eyecatching. Is this the norm? Continue Reading →
January 19, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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Thanks to Ray for this interesting interview. William Pawelec, who gave the interview in 2001, stipulated that the video not be released until he had passed away. Pawelec passed away in 2007, and the video was subsequently released in 2010. Whether this adds to the credibility, or encourages speculation, is up for debate.
January 17, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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January 17, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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After acquiring the Logitech G27 early last week, I had spent a few hours of game time playing rFactor… I was quite impressed with the way everything worked…
Then I started playing around a little. Continue Reading →
January 6, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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HERE: www.logitechshop.com.au/logitech-g27-racing-wheel-pc-ps3.html
Don’t ever say I don’t help out my fellow nerds! 
Their normal price is $489 but in the description it has:
The Logitech G27 Racing Wheel $344.95 Delivered
The Facebook G27 Promotion
Conditions As follows
1 per customer – PayPal verified addresses only
Allow up to ten working days for Processing and dispatch [will be faster]
Cannot be used with any other promotion.
We will refund any orders outside those conditions.
January 6, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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Just a quick post showing an iDefrag before and after (iDefrag is an OS X defrag app, basically Disk Keeper Pro for Mac, minus some of the more advanced functionality I guess). Ran an offline defrag, using the “Optimize” algorithm. I wanted to add a Bootcamp partition to my drive, so this shifted all my data to the start of the disk, perfect. Not sure what kind of speed benefit to expect, I don’t expect any, but we’ll see. I’m not sure if Bootcamp needed this space to be free or not, as the drive also has some filesystem errors, but as soon as it completed I was able to setup the Bootcamp partition and I’m on my way 
January 5, 2011
by Ashley Knowles
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I’ve toyed with Sphinx before. It blew my socks off… Until it broke.
Sphinx is an Open Source indexing engine, which is supported out of the box by the forum software, Invision Power Board (IPB). Essentially what Sphinx does, is run a bunch of queries against the IPB database, usually hosted on MySQL, pulling the entire post content (amongst other content types) and indexing it efficiently.
The result is blisteringly fast searches, arguably 10 times faster then the highly optimised MySQL queries employed by the IPB software. On a forum with over 1 million posts, containing over 1GB of text, SQL just can’t keep up. Continue Reading →
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