Category Archive: Computers and electronics

Dec
06

A demonstration that sometimes things are not what they seem…

….Take a look at this picture of Wallace and Grommit for example.  Just a nice, straight forward picture of the lovable duo. Or is it?  Because, if you know what Steganography is, you may then suspect that there is more to this picture than meets the eye! If I told you there is another image …

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Dec
03

What is that annoying ticking coming from my MacBook?!

So, was using my MacBook today and I noticed that there was a strange ticking sound coming from what sounded like the left-hand side, near the power cable. At first I thought the HDD was on its way out (God knows, the bashing my MacBook has taken its due to die any day) but a …

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Dec
04

Volume and Network Icons disappear from Vista’s Notification Area

This is very annoying.  I booted up Vista the other day to find that my Volume and Network icons had simply vanished.  No reason for this whatsoever.  So off I toddled to the control panel to add them back in and guess what? I couldn’t!  For some reason, I could not find the ‘put volume …

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Nov
27

F@CK*NG BT OPENWORLD!

Well, I spent the best part of 3 hours typing up the next entry inolving adding .Net code to run the stored procedure I mentioned in my last article on computing… and my fudging router had a spaz again and before I could do a control-c and save my entry… too slow chicken merengo! Lost …

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Nov
21

Stored Procedure? What’s that and why should I use one?

Okay, these posts are aimed at those who are reasonably new to programming and/or those who are new to .net and SQL server. I am assuming that those who are reading this have set up Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and SQL server express edition with the SQL management and are interested in developing …

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