Posted in The System Admin Zone on Feb 11th, 2005 No Comments »
You know the problem, lots of things one should document but potentially doesn’t because there’s not an easy way to do it. Lots of word documents, lots of web pages which have to be structured in someway by hand? Has to be a better way..
A thought inspired by Emma Tonkin in her Ariadne article Making [...]
Posted in Cultural, The System Admin Zone on Feb 9th, 2005 1 Comment »
Running student or public workstations has always been a time-consuming task from the perspective of setting them up so they are ‘locked down’. I have been using Public Web Browser (PWB) as part of the solution on both some public terminals and some internal machines which require restricted web browsing access.
PWB is very configurable (removing [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs on Feb 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Well a voice in the wilderness along with… well many other voices in the wilderness.
This all came about from some research today (as I do every now and again) on what Google has been up to lately. Of most interest was Google Suggest an interesting search term refiner - as you type. This also led [...]