I came across Project Euler this evening via this post. Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
More iPhone chatter…
I caught this post on the BBC News site, which pretty much echoes (almost exactly ) my comments a few weeks back. Some of the comments make interesting reading, people are so quick to jump on the ‘hate it ‘cos it’s a brand’ bandwagon. I really wonder how long it will take before people are [...]
Free Trac and SVN hosting
I’ve been getting really pissed off trying to install Trac to my Dreamhost shared server, to the extent that i’m contemplating moving hosts. In the interim, DevJaVu have just started to offer free Personal accounts that include integrate Trac and SVN. All you need to do is sign up using the referal code johnny5. I [...]
VMWare Fusion and network bridging
** UPDATED MARCH 12 2010: I just posted my solution to this problem here ** I’ve had VMWare Fusion running an image of my work laptop, on my Macbook, for nearly three weeks now. I’ve had no problems at all, running over both NAT and via network bridge. Until this week. Now, when I try [...]
Quick iPhone wish list
With rumours of a pre-Christmas firmware update to 1.1.3, here’s my wish list. I’d probably forgo the Jailbreak for these – currently I only really use the MobileScrobbler app from the iPhone dev scene but i’m finding that it keeps logging me out and doesn’t cache track plays. Everything else seems to pretty much be [...]
Quicksilver roadmap at the end
In an earlier post, I mentioned how i’d been an admirer of the Quicksilver application and its workflow. Having finally picked up a Mac for full time use (work & play), it was I think the 2nd application I installed. It’s definately a great productivity tool. I’m not keen on the way OS X has [...]
Reasons to Jailbreak #1
My foray into the world of jailbroken iPhones was due to one very simple app – MobileScrobbler. It simply hooks into the iPod functionalit and submits the Artist, Track and Album information to my Last.FM profile. Having been an avid, subscribing scrobbler for nigh on three years now, I can’t bear to listen to anything [...]
Jailbreaking a UK iPhone
This was compiled from the conceited software write up and also iphoneatlas’ write up (I had a nervy 15 minutes of nothing whilst it was stuck in restore mode – cue much Googling!!). I thought i’d write this up as I couldn’t find anything specific to say that the o2 iPhone could / has been [...]
Shortcuts and Quicksilver
I’ve always preferred to use the keyboard more than the mouse so i’ve been intrigued by QuickSilver for a long time. It was almost a weekly subject on the LifeHacker RSS feed for a while earlier this year. Being a Mac only app, I was pretty jealous, but was fine with the CTRL + R [...]
Laptop consolidation
Continuing my “Switch To Mac” project, i’ve been trying to work out how far I can go in replacing my work laptop with my own Macbook. Now, my work laptop is a real bone of contention. It’s a piece of crap Dell Latitude D600. In the past 9 months, the HD has gone three times, [...]