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Entries from October 2009

Student sends camera into stratosphere

October 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Thought this article was pretty cool for a finals project:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/offtheshelf-expedition-takes-flight-20091014-gw6o.html
The idea was to launch my system into the stratosphere to an altitude of about 100,000 feet (30,480 metres) using a weather balloon. At that altitude, it could take pictures (hopefully) showing the blackness of space above and the curvature of the Earth below.
Bit of an [...]

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Tags: Networking · Other

Test post

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments

This is a test post

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Tags: Uncategorized

Parallels PBAS failing PCI tests

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Parallels Business Automation (PBA) version Build ID: 3.3.3-07.23 appears to introduce a number of PCI compliance issues which causes PCI compliance to fail.  The issue was picked up by a PCI scan after upgrade PBAS from 3.3.3-06.48 to 3.3.3-07.23.
The release notes say the following bugs have been addressed, but, appear not to have been:
3225 (267935) [...]

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Tags: Control Panels · Operating System

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising not the game people had hoped

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was recently released but appears not the game people had hoped.  Many fans of the original military simulator Operation Flashpoint, developed by Bohemia Interactive and published by codemasters, flocked to get their hands on the newly released game.  Codemasters decided to release this game themselves and got rid of Bohemia Interactive.
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Tags: Gaming

Ominous start for Iverson

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments

In a tweet at 5:09 AM Aug 18th Allen Iverson (http://twitter.com/alleniverson) said:
Getting in shape, running, lifting and thinking about which team that I will
help compete for a championship! Whoever gets me will be happy
5:09 AM Aug 18th from web
But, the other day Yahoo reported that “Iverson could miss up to 3 weeks with hamstring”. (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AmGvcNasV9QEVFagUTKPyHm8vLYF?slug=ap-grizzlies-iverson&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Here’s [...]

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Tags: Sport