http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress i don't know what this is about... Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:22:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Taking a laptop to and from work can be useful (it's good exercise lugging a 3kg beast on your back) but changing the proxy server settings twice a day can quickly become an annoyance. If your workplace uses an automatic proxy configuration script, you can create two .reg files to set ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2008/08/07/quickly-toggle-automatic-proxy-configuration/ Crunch. Matt, Nate, Calvin and I turned around awkwardly in our seats to see a red Ford hatchback frighteningly close to the rear window. Foot finally pressed firmly on the brake, the flatline-like tone of the reverse sensors reverberating around the car's cabin, my heart sunk. Not again! My second ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2008/06/29/grace-from-a-stranger/ I post this here in the hope that it might help someone else who is having the same issues as me with making Vista work with an old printer like the HP Deskjet 930C. It's a lovely printer, quite the workhorse. But when Vista came, printing to the 930C through ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2008/06/21/making-vista-talk-to-old-printers/ A great thing about digital SLR cameras is that their lenses have threads on them so you can attach various filters to enhance picture quality. Problem is, DSLRs are expensive. Solution: build an adaptor that fits onto the retractable lens of a digital compact camera that allows the use of a ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2008/04/27/poor-mans-polarizer/ The woe when Sydney University central IT decided to migrate everyone to the Microsoft Exchange server! Migrate is too kind a word - it was more of an uprooting. As Angela put it, it was a case of outright computer molestation! We like using Thunderbird for email. It's open source, free, ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2008/03/10/usyd-ict-0-thunderbird-1/ I wonder if there is any intended similarity between the Cityrail Beasts Campaign, you know those hard-to-read cartoon posters plastered on stations around Sydney with catchy (and somewhat creative...) titles like 'The Hogger', 'The Blocker', and 'The Yeller', and this SMH Heckler article earlier this year? I like to think it's ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2007/11/15/cityrail-beasts-campaign-vs-smh-heckler/ What does $700 buy you these days? Adobe CS3 Master Collection student edition that can't be activated. And what happens if you try to activate via telephone and stay on the line after the computer voice with an English accent tells you that you'll be transferred to a customer service ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2007/07/24/cs3-master-collection-woes/ Was talking to Sara a few days ago about Christian hypocrites (for some reason...) and we came to the interesting conclusion that to be a Christian necessitates being a hypocrite. Let me explain. People who know Christians are often put off by the hypocritical nature of their friends. My dad turned ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2007/07/22/christian-hypocrites/ I wonder if there are differing levels of fobbiness. There are those who blatantly refuse to assimilate into Australian society, those who assimilate some aspects, and those who look foreign and may even sound a bit foreign but totally embrace Aussie culture. Surely they can't all be defined under one ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2007/07/14/fobs-and-ofobs/ When is fruit not a fruit? When it's an apple. After watching Border Security a few days ago (painful though it is - the pace is slower than Grey's Anatomy) I thought the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service was actually doing Australia some good. But after trying to legitimately import some biological ... http://danny.quantumspark.net/wordpress/2007/07/11/quarantine-help-or-hindrance/