Ever wonder if it would be more efficient to save compressed versions of your strings for storage in databases etc? I wanted to check several variations on this recently, so…

What does a highly stressed IT chap do to get away from it all for an hour or so a week? For now, I’m giving growing grapes a try. Having…
Evernote is a great piece of software when it works, which is most of the time. It does have a couple issues I’ve come across. Having just rebuilt both my…
This is a utility I wrote the first version of many years ago. At work, we have a need to remove old files from sometimes very deep directory structures. This…
Getting a 500 internal server error when trying to use .net httpwebresponse with asp or aspx? I was when all worked ok via a browser and with other URL’s. Try…
Following on from my Centos updates, I’ve got to update my Ubuntu 10.4 boxes. Given ubuntu say this is bad and will break all sorts of things, I’m installing alongside…
First, download the sources from http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources-stable/ You need mono-2.10.2.tar.bz2 and mono-basic-2.10.tar.bz2 then [sourceode] tar -xvf mono-2.10.2.tar.bz2 tar -xvf mono-basic-2.10.tar.bz2 cd mono-2.10.2 ./configure -prefix=/opt/mono make make install cd /usr/bin mv mono…
OK, weve been using a bit more power here recently, so I just ‘invested’ in 1kw of solar panels. More on the setup soon.