On the old desktop I used temporarily:
June Desktops
June 16th, 2009May Desktop
May 13th, 2009
Home Office Gaffe
April 27th, 2009The UK Home Office published a consultation paper on the 24th April detailing their plans for draconian data retention and access rules, which will see ‘communications data’ retained by ‘communications service providers’. As concerning as the whole thing is, there was an interesting mistake I noticed.
There is a right to complain to an independent tribunal if a member of the public believes that their data has not been acquired unlawfully.
Protecting the public in a changing communications environment
Lovely double negative!
Another phpBB Hook
April 5th, 2009Further to my entry last month about a phpBB Hook to disable the post queue for certain users, I’ve written a really quick one to enable phpBB’s debugging mode for founder users. Debug mode is usually enabled by using the constants DEBUG and DEBUG_EXTRA in the configuration file but these can be defined anywhere. The only downside debugging information will only be available after the hook is included, however this is sufficient to get the page generation time, memory usage etc. in the footer which is what I was after. Read the rest of this entry »
Mr. Hake Quotations
April 1st, 2009
My collection of quotes spurted by Mr. Hake my infamous GCSE
electronics teacher.
Life is nothing but a movable feast.
You need to be disconnected Steve.
You are chronically behind.
Wait inside the door.
They don’t give marks out like smarties.
Save your panics until you really need them.
Get your panics out now!
If that circuit had teeth it would bite you.
Icing on the cake.
Don’t throw a wobbly.
You are going off at a tangent.
Ricardo!!
You are 2 minutes late.
– 1 minute later –You are 10 minutes late Steve!
Don’t leave your gun half cocked.
You can’t make a warble with one astable.
— Talking about an astable with a siren attached.Switcheze.
Who dropped the penny?
Positif
Negitif
Steve, stand in the door way!
– 10 minutes later –Steve, why are you standing in the door way?
If you don’t tuck in your shirt I will tuck it in for you.
Chris, you’re flies are undone.
All quotes were collected between September 2002 and July 2004 in our electronics class with Mr. Hake.
Credits: Chris, Carl and Dave for forgotten Hake quotes,
and obviously our class for pissing him off so much.
Further to this nonsense:
- He did not understand my coursework circuit!
- The Electronics Lab burnt down, during the fire strikes … Green Goddesses to the rescue ^_^ (The bubble etcher was left on)
- He couldn’t control the class.
- My friends circuit never worked after he tried to fix it, but it worked before.
phpBB Post Queue
March 15th, 2009In phpBB 3.0.3 we added the possibility to queue posts of users who had a post count lower than an administrator defined threshold, this works very well at keeping spam out of the public eye on your board. But on the board I administer which is primarily for university students who all have their own university e-mail address it penalises new users who I as the board administrator trust. To get around this, I will be applying a small modification to our board during the next maintenance period which I thought I will share with you. Read the rest of this entry »
Firefox 3.0 Address Tweak for SSL/TLS
March 11th, 2009Since Firefox 3 scrapped the yellow address bar for SSL and TLS secured sites (i.e. https) and displays a nice green box for EV certificates I was hinted at a way to get a similar visual for non-EV certificates. You need to enter the FF configuration editor, pop about:config into your address bar, confirm you know there maybe dragons. Put browser.identity.ssl_domain_display into the filter box, double click on the result and then enter the value 2. Bingo! Job done.
Wordpress archives
March 3rd, 2009I’ve been running my blog since late 2005 as such my archives had been getting a little bit unwieldy in the sidebar and stretching the page to extraordinary heights. I’ve reduced this clutter with some very small changes. First I dug around only to find out that Wordpress doesn’t support fetching the monthly archives for one year, so I had to apply some filter foomongery. I discovered somebody else has done something similar, not quite as nice personally but it works.
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Planet phpBB
March 2nd, 2009I have created a phpBB Planet you can find it at planet.phpbb.cs278.org. Currently I am only aggregating 15 blogs of current and former team members, there is room for expansion. I am quite happy to add anybody who is notable in the phpBB community, contact me if you want your blog added.
