Duplicate files and hashing in Visual Basic.
DaleDuplicate file detection is fairly easy to do, as it turns out, and it goes like this. Read first file. Calculate a unique fingerprint, and store the fingerprint. Read second…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – November 2009
Desi Dhaba Authentic Indian restaurant. One of the blokes at work recommends it. Will have to give it a try. 134 Flinders Street, Melbourne. I’ve tried it, curry was good,…
Just call me “Mr. TBA” then.
I once was interviewed for an internal job, I was not successful* Fast forward six weeks later, to where one of the interviewers was running a training course I was…
Google Geek Humour
Do you mean recursion? Yes, I mean recursion: ASCII Art
One way to wipe a BlackBerry
I needed to wipe the firmware off a BlackBerry. Looking around, I found a useful little utility, JL_Cmder. Now JL_Cmder is a frontend to the JavaLoader.exe, so you could use…
We gave our today
When you go home, Tell them of us, 'For your tomorrow We gave our today' Sir William Slim, at the Cross of Sacrifice, Bomana War Cemetery. Port Moresby, 1953
“You know there is asbestos in these ceilings???”
I used to do CAT4 cabling for schools. No, that’s not a misspelling, CAT4. Which, from memory, was 4 untwisted pair wire cabling. Schools would ask us to do it…
The Western Digital “My Passport” External Drive
Update: Thinking of buying one? Don't, they suck. The Western Digital “My Digital” External Hard Drive pictured right, is my latest IT purchase. The reason I went for a WD…
“Man invented fire here”
I’ve done a bit of programming over the years, and I’m currently working with a Visual Basic 6 (VB6) code base. I’ve found the following quotation so true: It is…
So Outlook 2003 and 2007 store the email account details there.
Which you need to know BEFORE you rebuild your PC. (So you can take a backup copy of it). Not that obvious until you need to know where to find…