December 2004 - Posts

So What's Your Game Of The Year 2004?
26 December 04 11:25 AM | tristank | 9 Comments   
Some excellent titles to choose from that make my shortlist (in no particular order): Halo 2 Far Cry Half-Life 2 Chronicles of Riddick Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising Project Gotham Racing 2 A good year... Read More...
The Guts Of PasteOff
24 December 04 02:49 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   
Ahh, my first day off. Just catching up on blogs, editing theme tunes for the Smartphone (heheh Knight Rider), playing a little Chronicles of Riddick... it's all fun. No family commitments until this evening. Sweet. Oh, and repeatedly trying to get the Read More...
PasteOff Upload Script
23 December 04 05:03 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
This is a sample script that's quite similar to the Upload.CMD I use with PasteOff (fixed the download links, by the way), to upload images to my blog site. Customize the variables at the top, and upload away... As a note, it is really important not to Read More...
PasteOff 0.7. Lots of tweaks.
23 December 04 01:46 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
Oops, it's 1:45 am. Still, new version is baked, and it's pretty much what I want from a utility thing. Coolest new feature: now leaves a user-defined string on the clipboard. Also, stuff that 0.6 broke should work better. Download on the PasteOff page Read More...
Up, up and away. Did I mention "up"?
22 December 04 08:50 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
Off on vacation from 24th Dec to 10th Jan, so my last day of "real" work this year is tomorrow. Thanks to all three readers (that's 150% up on last year) for your comments, help, and occasional bouts of sanity. I hope you all have a safe and happy New Read More...
My First Smartphone
21 December 04 10:48 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   
Embracing the Christmas Spirit, I figured I'd get an i-mate SP3i from Telstra . So far, I'm pretty impressed with it. I've sent a couple of blogs to my Spaces site via Activesync over GPRS, including photos (yep, my first camera phone). The quality of Read More...
PasteOff 0.6. More Image Formats.
18 December 04 11:12 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   
PNG, BMP, JPG, TIF can be output. Sometimes they might even work, too! As a note, when upgrading, previous settings aren't migrated. I'm using binary serialization to store the configuration options, and when the format changes (eg, I add stuff), I break Read More...
More Fiddling: PasteOff 0.5
17 December 04 12:08 AM | tristank | 4 Comments   
PasteOff is back, bigger, stronger and with more error handling. OK, barely more error handling. It's a fun project, not a production one, mmkay? PasteOff is a quick'n'dirty utility that saves images from the clipboard to a pre-arranged location in JPEG format, with a randomly generated filename (or one you specify), and can run a utility/script against the saved image afterwards. Read More...
Fiddling: PasteOff Image Saving Thing
16 December 04 01:07 AM | tristank | 4 Comments   
As I mentioned in my post about MSN Spaces , I've got this weird habit of wanting to convert clipboard BMPs into JPGs directly, with a minimum of actual steps expended. So, I hacked together a little applet - let's call it version 0.1 - that converts Read More...
MSN Spaces: My First Week. And a bit.
14 December 04 06:38 PM | tristank | 11 Comments   
I'll put on my cheerleading skirt for a moment - well done to the MSN Spaces team . It rocks. I love it. It took a few false starts to get the hang of it, but now I'm really liking the little corner I've carved. I love it so much that I've pretty much Read More...
ISA 2004 FAQ: What Happened To Cache-Only Mode?
10 December 04 02:55 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
[Update 20050210 - emphasis added] Well, it's not called that any more, and we use Network Templates to repurpose an existing ISA box without reinstallation now. Much nicer, don't you think? If you've a single network adapter ISA 2004 installation and Read More...
Office Holiday Terror: The Airzooka
07 December 04 12:42 AM | tristank | 4 Comments   
In one of my rather more sugar-induced and less technically reasoned Holiday Season moods, I decided to buy an Airzooka from LatestBuy . For the technically-minded, Dan's review says it all . It was delivered the next day (kudos to Latestbuy for the speedy Read More...
A 'Savings' of what?
06 December 04 11:14 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
At least I know I'm not the only one that finds the use of the plural "savings" in a singular context confusing and - well - wrong! http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=savings "A savings of $50"... bah. Should be "A saving of $50". Read More...
Ooh, MSN Spaces! (beta)
03 December 04 12:08 AM | tristank | 5 Comments   
I have to hand it to the MSN guys, this was a pretty slick way to set up a blog . It looks particularly good for the first-time blogger that doesn't have a ton of legacy posts behind them. If you haven't blogged, perhaps this will change your mind? As Read More...

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