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I'm Tweeting the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Live (40 years late)
For those of you that use twitter, I’m going to be tweeting the Moon Landing Live (Well, 40 years late). You can find the twitter feed at www.twitter.com/ApolloEcho.
Read More »Serving Google KML and KMZ files from IIS
By default, Microsoft IIS only supports a small number of files. This is what you need to support KML and KMZ files in IIS. The MIME type details are: Extension: .kml MIME type: application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml Extension: .kmz MIME type:…
Read More »Sandisk Cruzer – Making them work like a standard USB stick
I just brought an 8GB Sandisk Cruzer USB stick. Unfortunately whenever you plug it in, it comes up as both an emulated CD-ROM drive and the removable disk. the emulated disk comes up as “U3 System” and it…
Read More »We're back online!
I had to do some maintenance on my server over the weekend as one of the hard drives in the RAID array failed. It should have been a simple and straightforward task however it turned out to be…
Read More »Are you human?
I was recently using stackoverflow.com to solve a technical problem. On the site, if you make too many edits or changes in a set amount of time, the site decides you could be a robot. If this happens,…
Read More »Deleting files based on their Date
If you are perfoming regular automated backups (like you should), You’ll soon find you are running out of space and need to start deleting old backups. Here is a really simple way to delete files that are more…
Read More »Protect your data before you lose it
Like a lot of other computer users, I seem to have a lot of data which is irreplaceable. Not including music and video (since I have the originals on disk anyway) I’m still pushing almost 1TB (1000GB). This…
Read More »Cheap Counter for machinery
A friend of mine has been looking for a cheap counter to use in his factory for counting production from machines. He currently uses some of the mechanical counters but these are starting to fail. Electronic counters cost…
Read More »Comments now require a CAPTCHA to be completed
I’ve been getting around 200 spam comments a day on this site and had to manually sort through them to find the non spam comments. This morning I was finally fed up with comment spam on this site…
Read More »More debris on it's way to the space station
While the shuttle is on it’s way to the station, more debris is inbound. NASA are deciding what to do. They may boost the station up a bit which will mean that the shuttle will get there a…
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