Digital Consumption

Digital Consumption

If Stephen Hawking were British, he would be dead

In perhaps the most amusing effort to discredit US President Barack Obama's plan for nationalized health care - if not the most ridiculous - US financial newspaper Investor's Business Daily has said that if Stephen Hawking were British, he would be dead.

Charles Darke | 10:38am, 13 August 2009.

Firefox finally frees fonts

Firefox 3.5 now supports using arbitrary fonts installed on the users system or download fonts via an url using @font-face CSS rules — we've only been waiting some fifteen years for this but better late than never.

Charles Darke | 9:47pm, 30 June 2009.

A home-made industrial dice rolling machine. I find it incredible that this thing exists.

Charles Darke | 8:50pm, 26 May 2009.

Linux serial console

Notes on setting up serial console in linux

Charles Darke | 9:17pm, 9 February 2009.

Is SCSI obsolete?

I'm the proud owner of two new Adaptec 39160 SCSI cards. They came up for sale on ebay and being a bit of a digital magpie, I bought them. Having bought them, I'm now wondering whether SCSI is now obsolete.

Charles Darke | 7:41pm, 9 January 2009.

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