Monthly Archives: February 2006
Project management tools
In once worked for the company which produced the professional project management platform Artemis. In much of my subsequent working life I’ve had to use Microsoft Project for project management, which has always been a frustrating experience after knowing how … Continue reading
Traffic shaping your Internet connection
Most people do not shape their connection to the Internet, which under load leads to a push/pull effect as TCP/IP does it’s congestion management. A better QoS can be granted by shaping the traffic.
Megaraid PERC2/SC drivers for RHEL (and CentOS) Linux
Dell (and LSI) retracted support for the 466 Megaraid SCSI RAID card driver (megaraid2) in the current Redhat kernels. As I use Redhat-derived CentOS for my production servers this is a royal pain.
High-level programming languages (scripting languages)
Perl. Forget it, too hard to read once you’ve forgotten why you wrote it like that. Ruby. All the love these days. Someone I trust swears by it. Hmmm… Python. Ah, that’s my cup of tea!
HTTP header debugging
For those that use Firefox (who doesn’t??), there’s a very useful tool called LiveHeaders. If you still use IE6, you can try Fiddler instead. If you’re brave you can install the pre-release IE7!
Philips ToUCam II Pro (PCVC840K)
I want one of these CCD webcams, and I think I’ll be getting it from QVC as their price is substantially lower than anyone else selling them online!
TopGear Winter Olympics 2006
Have you ever wondered how to play ice-hockey in a car? Or ski-jump in a car? Watch the excellent TopGear Winter Olympics to find out!
Video de-interlacing
See www.100fps.com for everything you could ever possibly want to know about interlacing video. For some excellent de-interlacing tools, head over to www.guthspot.se/video/.
Online tech gear sites
UK: www.aria.co.uk USA: www.buy.com www.ecost.com
Screen-grabbing driver
Reading Fabio Sonatti‘s blog led me to an excellent (and free) screen-grabbing driver which is DirectShow compatible. Go visit Vladimir Hmelyoff‘s site to download it.