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Loading ...OMGWTFNEWYEAR?! Yeah, say goodbye to 2008, and hello to 2009! To say 2008 has been interesting, will be an understatement, but we will see how things go in 2009 where we hope to see even more interesting things happen.
Techious2 will be released this year, and hopefully will be more excellent than ever before! As will many new features to all Spcook and Techious services!
So go on, enjoy the new year!
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Just a quick one! Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you have the best time possible this holiday season, and looking forward to seeing all my great friends again soon! 
Alternatively, join the discussion on Techious.
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...I know this has been on Techious for quite a whie, but I thought it would be good to share some good lols this Christmas Time. After Aaron’s insertion of pictures of us in ElfYourself, and seeing Reedy’s reaction to it, I put 5 pictures of him from the End of Sixth Form album and put it into ElfYourself. Here are the end results:
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...Well, kind of, the real link to read this kind of garbage is here, and it only shows the magic that is the Techious2 developer blog posts. Here (or there) I will be posting updates as to how the Techious2 project is going as it happens.
Now for a small introduction. Techious2 is (obviously) the new version of the Techious Website, as developed myself and tested by my crack team of testers when it gets to that stage. Originally it was going to be a private thing, but things leak too quicky so I have decided to make it a bit more public. Currently the only information you can know is what I post here at the moment, and also what I also post in the future with more blog posts and stuff.
In this blog I will aim to put updates to the websites along with screenshots for those that think they are worthy enough. I aim to have the website done by the middle of 2009, but we have no idea how long things actually take these days, so it could just be another summer break rushsite 
For keeping up to date with things, you can either use the category feed that will only show the Techious2 posts, or if you currently subscribe to my main RSS feed, you already have all you need to keep up todate.
One final thing, should I make this a seperate blog or use what I intend to?
Loading ...That is all, as I have to actually develop stuff for it to be readworthy, so heres to the Techious2 project!
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...I has survived! Thankfully after two hundred years 11 weeks I have survived my first time at University and can now relax. Well, sort of. I still have a couple of pieces of work to do (that were both set yesterday) and my EngMaths exams to revise for, but apart from this, I am basically all the way there to having fun relaxing and stuff.
I think if I spend an hour revising each day and an hour doing work each day, that should prepare me enough for everything and should still leave me enough time to do whatever it is I want to.
So what shall I be doing during the holidays? Well I have no idea, apart from seeing people a couple of times, i think we’ll just have to play it ear, which should be good. Oh, and plenty f sleep, I need to sleep alot this holiday too
That’s about it, just keeping ye olde blog ticking over, oh and Techious2 is now synced up to my laptop so I can work on that remotely too which I’m sure some people will be glad of
Well, more sleep needed so cya.
Oh yea, theres also a 720p YouTube plugin in here now so once that works, I will be porting that not only here, but also into the main Techious Forums for funs and lols!
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...On Tuesday, the latest version of Fedora came out which includes the usual round-up of new updates for several purposes, which can be read http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/index.html#sn-Fedora_10_overview
I use a Fedora 9 server, which I can’t get to, so the normal method of putting a disc in and letting anaconda do all the work just isn’t suitable for me, so using yum I “upgraded” by telling yum to use the Fedora 10 repos and then getting the system to update from this. This method is somewhat risky, but for this case it seemed to turn out well. Previously this method has caused funny problems with X-server, but as I don’t use any x applications (everything is just command line for me) this wasnt an issue.
The steps I used to set up this system was as follows.
yum clean all && yum update && yum clean all
You will notice I clear the repo cache twice, this is to make sure that when we get it to do the upgrade, it doesnt try to use any old F9 repos.
rpm -Uhv http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-10-1.noarch.rpm http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-10.0.0.1.noarch.rpm
You should now be running a proper version of Fedora 10. Note however that using an installation disc and upgrading using anaconda is still the recommended method of upgrading, but for those that cannot do that, at least this offers an alternative.
Note however that due to to some changes that happen between versions, you might notice some slight bugs running a new version upgraded in this way. I have yet to see any of these probems, but that is not to say that there aren’t any. Problems that are found will have to be fixed some other way, and I cannot be held responsible for any of these. Basically, here is a method but it is unsupported so it’s at your own risk.
I hope these instructions will come in handy to someone at some point, but basically if you need them, they are here.
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...Now it’s about time for some real content. Presenting the first publicly visible project, the VAT Converter! Inspired by the need to convert prices from the old 17.5% VAT standard over here in the UK to the new 15%, I wrote a little script to do this for you. I will at some point release the code behind this script after I have deceided on a licence for it (probabily some CC licence), but hey, its content on here right!
The URL to play with the converter is http://www.spcook.co.uk/projects/vat1715/
For those of you who broke it, or want to suggest improvements, the Project Forum is available at http://www.spcook.co.uk/forum/forum/vat-converter
I hope you enjoy this, and possibly find a good quick use for it.
Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for any results you get form the calculator, it is only a calculator and should only be used for own personal interest.
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...Here goes nothing, a nice new plugin for my blog so I can highlight code… let’s see if it works:
1 2 3 4 5 | #include <stdio.h> int main(void){ printf("Hello World\n"); } |
Yup, that seems to work
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Just got this update literally a minute ago, and it confused me… what the hell, my gmail looks different. It appears theres now themes built into it, which seem to be just like iGoogle themes. There are 31 themes at the moment, and I have screenshotted a few for you here:
Right now I am using the Planets theme, its offering me quite a good mix of image and transparency, though I think I may settle on the Shiny theme or some other theme that resembes a normal Google blank page.
Anyone else seeing this at all? To see, go to your Gmail settings page, and look for the “Themes” tab.
Edit: This is only showing on my Gmail account, not my Google Apps account at the moment, so it appears its a gradual rollout (I have give me beta stuff turned on in Apps)
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...Let’s write something marginally interesting then shall we. Last Wednesday I went to play a couple of hours of Laser Question with some of the CSS. This was probabily the best time that I have had in a long time. I haven’t really got my score cards with me at the moment, but from memory I have gotten alot better as I have progressed.
I think it was this: 55, 109, 155, 243 (give ±20 in the latter two). Not bad for my first time playing, and not as Si, no, I must represent Techious so my name was TCHS in the games. Oh yes, and not last for any of the games! (First one last bar one, but meh, I still like).
In other news, I gave a really bad presentation embarasing Techious for all it’s worth, well I needed to give a presentation on something technical I’d done. Technical, umm Techious yes that works! Anyway I’ll try attaching it as a PDF to see if this system allows it.
Coding is becoming more interesting, I’m currently writing an over the top method for my latest coursework, I’m sure theres easier methods, just mine works for lols!
This is about it
Attachment: Techious Presentation
