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BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter

BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter: http://www.bookmooch.com/ Something to add to the list of sites I never knew existed, but wholeheartedly…

vanilla syrup cake

This is a variant of the Gingerbread recipe, and is decidedly Version 1.0 in that it’s both complete and in need of more work… It’s actually a little…

aperture 2.1 hack

This one isn’t mine: Michal was so quick off the mark I haven’t even downloaded the update yet 🙂 this time performLicenseCheck is @ 6F2B0C Thanks very much…

pkgsrc on a buffalo linkstation

Given that a stable tarball of {pkgsrc} is coming up this is possibly just a temporary aberration with a couple of broken commits but as of the 17mar08…

aperture 2.0.1 hack

This is pretty much the same as the original Aperture 2 trial hack, but with a different offset for the binary once it’s been installed. Follow the previous…

aperture world tour: just like the world series ?

Update: 09mar08 Ok, fixed. Not sure when this changed, but each city now has its own registration link. I had been going to let this pass, but seeing…

aperture 2 trial hack

Update: 18feb08 My original hack required multiple edits in order to get the program to run, but Michal has found a far better method that just means a…

need a low-level software engineer ?

Are you in need of a low-level software engineer with over 12 years of commercial experience ? One that is happy to play around with JTAG probes and…

exim smtp time spamasassin based rejection

{Exim} and {SpamAssassin} can work very well together to screen incoming email during the SMTP receive phase and reject messages without them ever having to get close to…

(was) small sayings

This is the full version: N: “What’s the next number in this sequence…” E (interrupting): “7” N: “…” N: “Err, yes.” The best bit is that she was,…

Asterisk 1471: Take 3

Hmm, this is turning into a regular saga now: so much so I’ve added a voip tag to these posts to help keep them together. My original macro…

aperture 1.5.6 hack

Now I haven’t actually got around to trying find these myself: 1.5.4 was working just fine for me and I couldn’t see anything that the 1.5.6 update would…

spec writing for the PHB

Ok, so who thinks of {Dilbert}’s boss when reading this snippet from a product spec PDF: Dimension 25mm x 115mm x 75mm (when laying flat); 115mm x 25mm…

Asterisk 1471: Take 2

Update: Thanks to Steve for pointing out that SayNumber (line 5 of 1471 below) is a bad idea: it works just fine in limited testing on my LAN,…

Asterisk 1471

Wanting to make my home Asterisk box a convergence point for VoIP and PSTN mans that I really wanted to have the “last number caller id” option that…