wozname

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by wozname 4y ago
My Dad runs a website for his Meccano hobby, and as far as I know their webring is still active: http://nzfmm.co.nz/ https://meccano.link/ I was definitely surprised to see an active web ring.
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NZ ISP circumvents geo blocking on netflix for all customers(nzherald.co.nz)
5 points by wozname 12y ago|0 comments
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by wozname 13y ago
Obligatory zx81 version, video: http://www.frequency.com/video/just-released-for-zx81-is-qua... The official homepage: http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/quack.html This C64 version is pretty awesome though!
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ZX Spectrum devs claim missing royalties from Elite Systems(kickstarter.com)
116 points by wozname 13y ago|27 comments
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Kiwi entrepreneurs create webpage while skydiving(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by wozname 13y ago|0 comments
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by wozname 13y ago
That's cool, for those interested, here's the link to the original ascii Star Wars at Simon's website: http://asciimation.co.nz
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Another spy bungle exposed (New Zealand)(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by wozname 13y ago|0 comments
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by wozname 14y ago
I will not be getting a surface. I took a borrowed one home to show my wife, she hated it. She wanted the interface switched around since she's left handed, charms on the left and swipe right for more pages, I couldn't figure out how to do
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First NZ copyright tribunal verdict(techliberty.org.nz)
3 points by wozname 14y ago|0 comments
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by wozname 14y ago
He is one of the Hackers in Steven Levy's Book pubished in 1984: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...
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by wozname 14y ago
Very commonly used in New Zealand, its used on TV with no problems, heres the iconic Toyota ad using the word bugger to good effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKY_OysWu3k
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I lost a couple of my go daddy domains doing this...(metachat.org)
1 points by wozname 15y ago|0 comments
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Long hours and zombie-like employees at Gameloft Auckland(nzherald.co.nz)
32 points by wozname 15y ago|32 comments
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by wozname 15y ago
I'd be scared of it automatically downloading inappropriate or even worse illegal stuff from the search results. Try explaining to the boss you did not visit that nsfw site but it merely turned up in your search results.
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by wozname 16y ago
Gutted, I thought it was open source. That would have been cool but I'm still impressed they managed to ship anything at all.
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by wozname 16y ago
Yeah, I don't think you'd be targeting your latest masterpiece at this. Probably it will receive mostly ports of existing software.
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Pandora: Community driven linux based hardware project, actually shipping units.(openpandora.org)
70 points by wozname 16y ago|44 comments
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Game Download Companies Customer Service Reviewed(crapcustserv.blogspot.com)
1 points by wozname 16y ago|0 comments
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What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source(onlamp.com)
1 points by wozname 16y ago|0 comments
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Does agile really suck?(mgorecki.net)
3 points by wozname 16y ago|1 comments
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by wozname 17y ago
Cheers, thanks for the clarification.
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by wozname 17y ago
Fair enough :)
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by wozname 17y ago
That makes sense, However there must be some killer feature that makes them superior to the x64 architecture. Could it be memory architecture? Power efficiency? How would you explain to a PHB the advantages it gives you over x64?
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Who actually uses Itanium based computers?
1 points by wozname 17y ago|6 comments
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What every programmer should know about memory(people.redhat.com)
2 points by wozname 17y ago|0 comments
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A tool for understanding windows file caching(tmurgent.com)
1 points by wozname 17y ago|0 comments
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Star Control 2 - Open Source, with remixes(sc2.sourceforge.net)
1 points by wozname 17y ago|0 comments