Author: Darryl Smith

Right now I am just watiting for some code to compile. I lent a laptop to a friend a little while back, and he lent me back his old NT laptop with 32 mBytes RAM… So compiles sometimes take a …

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Looking at the Web server logs, I saw a link from DumbFind.COM which intrigued me thanks to its name. They were spidering my site to put into their index. Sometime next month they will be starting a new search engine, …

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Yesterday I posted a problem where I was getting gibberish out of an IIS Web Server when I was using VB.NET/ASP.NET. The gibberish was basically the text I was sending but it was not being read as what it was. …

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High Speed network connections to the Internet has really changed the entire world. Things are not how they once were. There is a story on this web site about how a team in Seattle are seaching in the deep atlantic …

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I am having a problem with programming. I am attempting to work with a WWW page sending a file – in this case a PNG image. What is happening is that I am getting Gibberish. What I am seeing appears …

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I have just met with another potential reseller. Actually I think they are now a real reseller of mine. Fantastic – Things are finally starting to happen. They really love all my software, and see a huge potential for how …

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Last night I fell asleep when reading in bed. I guess I was really tired… I think I slept for about 45 minutes before I woke up with my glassed on, and my book in my hand and the light …

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I have actually got some work done this morning – the WWW site is improved and I have been also working on some other programming. Also organising some stuff that urgently needed to be sorted. On the WWW site I …

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I cannot get the song ‘Speed of Sound’ by Coldplay out of my head. I don’t think that this album is as good as their last one, but I think I have mentioned that before. I have been getting a …

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ZDnet has an article on the security in place at eBay. Interesting article but a bit light on detail. ZDnet are putting out articles each day this week on ths subject, so it will be interesting to see what else …

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I am watching ‘My Here’ on cable, and I am really really loving it. The concept is a superhero alien who marries a woman from the UK. It is so hilarious. The main character is also from the comedy ‘Father …

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Under the tunel between central railway station and UTS in Sydney is a cool bookshop. It is called Basement Books, and whenever I go past I drop in and pick up some books. And I invariably spend more than I …

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I had to go into the city for a meeting today, at short notice. It was a good meeting, and means that I can do some real work tomorrow… Maybe. We will need to see how it goes though. I …

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