technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
Archive for May, 2007
Math geeks drive Mazdas
May 25th
Its not a Mazda 3, it’s a Mazda 3.141592653589793238462643383 (???? to 27 decimal places).
What ever happened OpenPsa?
May 21st
The company I work for is very dispersed. As well as staff in Ireland, we have people in the UK & France, so need good CRM and collaboration tools. Up until now we’ve been using vTiger and MediaWiki, and they’ve served us well. There’s always a need to improve communication and interaction with our partners, so we’re looking to add more support and service tools to the mix.
I came across OpenPsa recently and it seemed perfect for what we do. It’s a CRM tool with heavy project management and document repository tools that could be perfect. It runs on a LAMP stack, so I More >
Bertie should be more careful who he get’s his picture taken with
May 9th
This made my day. The guy is a legend!
TCP/IP + FireWire in Vista
May 3rd
Aaaaaggghhh!!!!! My house is totally 802.11g. There’s a server, a few desktops, a laptop and even a couple of PDAs around and there’s no way the ball & chain would allow CAT5 tacked to the skirting boards. 54Mbs is the theoretical maximum, but that never happens. Most of the time I just move email and web stuff around, so it’s not a big deal. The only exception is when I’m moving video between my laptop and my desktop. The desktop supports gigabit Ethernet, but the laptop is 10/100 only. Both have FireWire built in (very handy for iPods and pulling More >
