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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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Warning: this is a nerdy code post, so proceed with caution While modding my new site in Community Server 2007 , I needed to know the item number in the asp:Repeater control so when I reach the last one (the repeater had a fixed number of items) it would not apply a certain CSS class so there isn't a...
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Some of you may know that I hate fanboys, whether they're Mac, Linux, Sony or whatever. I don't mind if your passionate about a particular company, in fact that's a great thing and if I startup, or work for a company, I'd be honoured to have such people. What shits me are those who are so blinded (or...
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Oracle Linux adopters labelled 'idiots' . "Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its announcement to adopt Oracle Linux , upset Linux enthusiasts phoned, e-mailed and wrote about the company online to complain at the decision. "People called us out...
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While playing around with Paint.NET today (great free basic photo editing tool, essentially paint on steroids), and was pleasantly surprised when I got this as I went to close it: Isn't that more helpful than something like this: Of course, if you have Windows Vista, you would've seen the former type...
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There's been talk of the browser being a dying breed when RIAs come along, and while I agree partially, I still believe there's a place for it in the short-mid term for browsing webpages, and information, as well as for testing out RIAs. I mean, imagine if you had to download a desktop app everytime...
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No this isn't a post about how to use the current command line interfaces, which are power and cool, but insanely unintuitive for the average joe. This post is about the command line making a comeback, after being shoved away into a corner by its bigger, better, more popular cousin, the graphical user...
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The whole thing about whether Flash should be open-sourced has come up again - Ryan Stewart's summarised it pretty well on his blog post . One argument for open-sourcing is that such an important platform (and it'll be getting more and more important ) should not be controlled by a single, commercial...
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This is the last post in a series of posts about making Linux a more competitive in the consumer world. The first post, part 1 , introduces the reason and some of the problems and solutions, like lack of innovation and boring UI design. Part 2 explores more solutions, including eliminating the restricted...
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This post is part of a series of posts about stuff that can be done to make Linux a more formidable competitor in the consumer computer world. Part 1 introduces the problem, and covers some points, including more innovation and designing better UIs. Here are some more: Make restricted formats (like MPEG2...
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Spend enough time on digg , reddit , slashdot , and other similar sites reading tech news and you'll no doubt will see a Linux vs. Windows battle in play (not to mention PS3 vs. Xbox 360, Mac vs. Windows etc.). The ferocity of these debates is amazing, often generating more comments than more real issues...