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Android Posted by Ian on 30/08/10 What is the difference between Androd and Linux?...
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Prayer + football? Look at the NZ All White's Posted by Ian on 30/07/10 To many, it was a surprise they made the last 16 - but New Zealand's All Whites football team had made it to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. The question was not really winning the competition, but how well they would acquit themselves. However they had a 'secret' weapon: prayer. But could this really affect the outcome? Let's see......
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Absolutely foolproof way to get a USB flash drive to boot Linux Posted by Ian on 03/06/10 There are so many USB flash drives (also known as thumbdrives, pendrives and so on), all with different sizes, structures and limitations. So many conflicting online instructions to say how to get them working, which to follow? After a few weeks of trying different options out, I can present the definitive guide to getting them up and running to boot Linux....
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Why doesn't God answer my prayer(s)? Posted by Ian on 25/01/10 God answered George Muller's prayers: 30,000 according to George's own very careful records.
How many of us can boast the same? If not, what's the problem? Where's the blockage? Maybe this article will help, with 7 key points to consider....
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George Muller Posted by Ian on 13/01/10 Read about an amazing 63-year long experiment that demonstrated beyond all doubt the God exists, listens to prayers and answers them. ...
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Accessing specific memory address from user code Posted by Ian on 26/08/09 Linux has a very strong level of protection between user space and the 'real' world. Even within the kernel, addresses are virtual and may not correspond to 'real' addresses. The recommended way to write to 'real' memory is using the vitrual_to_physica() macro in the kernel. But this can be clunky and slow for prototyping.
Here we present a short piece of code allows a user with sudo access to read from or write to a specified memory address....
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Sick of social networking with no heart? Posted by Tom on 24/10/08 Social networking as in facebook tends to be introspective and self serving...
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IP protection ratings chart Posted by Ian on 15/10/08 Maybe you've heard some equipment described as "rated to IP54" or something, and wondered if that makes it waterproof... well find out here exactly what those numbers mean...
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AC mains, Current, Voltage drop, calculator Posted by Tom Scott on 12/10/08 Need to calculate voltage drop, max current ratings of AC mains cables? Read on...
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Ready to follow God? Yes but... Posted by Ian on 01/09/08 Are you ready to follow God wherever He leads? If your answer is "yes, but..." then this is for you...
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Fathers, do something for your kids today Posted by anonymous on 10/09/08 Do you want your kids to grow up to be the best possible people they can be? Do you want them to not go astray, and not fall into trouble?
You can tell them how you want them to be, but the bad news is that, especially for boys, there is just one huge role model. That is you, the father. What can you do? Here is an idea...
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Overweight? Suffering from a sedentary lifestyle? Posted by Ian on 10/09/08 Body weight gain = input calories - calories expended
It's simple really: if you want to lose weight, either eat fewer calories, or expend more, or do both. Here are some hints and tips from a 12-hours-a-day-in-front-of-his-computer man....
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Dynamic creation of HTML select menu from PHP arrays Posted by Ian on 26/08/08 Sometimes you have a PHP array and you want to use this to create a pulldown select menu in a webpage. Of course you can do it manually - but why not use a simple function to do all the work for you? In addition, we will add the ability for the selections you have made to be 'remembered' whenever you refresh or return to that page...
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Graph plotting on the web Posted by Ian on 26/08/08 Did you even need to plot graphs dynamically in a webpage? Not sure how to draw lines in HTML or Javascript (you can't really), and don't want to learn Java or Flash? Well this is the open source tool for you ...
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Secure Linux the easy way with iptables Posted by Ian on 20/08/08 Worried about network security? Did you know most linux machines are wide open by default after installation? Find out here how you can easily fix that....
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Windows 2000 Command Shell Completion: How to enable Posted by Tom Scott on 09/07/08 Ever miss the auto complete tab function in bash? Here is how you can get it in your Windows 2000 Command Shell...
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XP Vista file sharing tutorial Posted by Tom on 04/04/08 Ever had a simple task made differcult by MicroSoft? Well here is one getting an XP and Vista PC to talk to each other...
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Become a Vi-Vim guru Posted by Tom on 15/01/08 Ever used vi or vim? Its complex but oh so powerful, check out this cheat sheet...
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Jandal Fixer Posted by Tom on 07/01/08 How often have you broken your jandal? Read on for the Universal Jandal,Flip-flop,thong, fixer
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Want to work on an ARM but can't afford the hardware? Emulate it! Posted by Ian on 01/01/08 The amazing and excellent QEMU emulator (which I use to run windows on my MacBook and Linux machines on the rare occasions I'm forced to it) also emulates an ARM processor. See what you can do......
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