Techie :: Techno ::: December 2006 Archives
I think I need a "weird" category for this kind of thing...
Via the open list comes mention of the "BlueScreen Screen Saver (3.2)" .... The screen saver details are quite disturbing:
"Bluescreen cycles between different Blue Screens and simulated boots every 15 seconds or so. Virtually all the information shown on Bluescreen's BSOD and system start screen is obtained from your system configuration - its accuracy will fool even advanced NT developers. For example, the NT build number, processor revision, loaded drivers and addresses, disk drive characteristics, and memory size are all taken from the system Bluescreen is running on."At least someone in Microsoft has a sense of humour :)
IrishDev must think we're all American.
Their latest email newsletter is cluttered with American date format references.
Either they think we're all American OR whoever did the newsletter messed up .....
If people cannot access online services due to accessibility issues, then it would be fairly safe to say that egovernment is not succeeding - it's probably failing.
Richard Hearne has done a fascinating analysis of over 40 Irish government and political party websites with a view to assessing their accessibility and the results are quite worrying:
Government Department sites 25% Failed the minimum standard for accessibility 75% Failed both minimum accessibility and basic coding standards Public body sites 33% Failed the minimum standard for accessibility 100% Failed both minimum accessibility and basic coding standards Political Party sites 57% Failed the minimum standard for accessibility 100% Failed both minimum accessibility and basic coding standards Four Government Departments passed with flying colours: Dept of Arts, Sports and Tourism Dept Enterprise, Trade and Employment Dept of Finance Dept of Social and Family AffairsYou can read the full report on Richard's site
Web services can be a really handy way of integrating various affiliate programs with your website and customising them to meet your requirements and taste. In most cases you need to get a developer key to access the services. In most cases the key is a text string of anything from 4 or 5 characters to 10. Not so with cj.com! Their developer key is a massive 260 characters!!!
I'd hate to have to memorise that!
Seems the budget reports have attracted a lot of online viewers and listeners today...
End result being a new high in traffic over INEX - just over 1.3 gigabits
Why oh why do people in ENN simply publish companies' press releases as if they were gospel?
It just so happens that I have a conflicting set of results... Odd that, isn't it?
Note the inclusion of actual figures ie. you can see how many emails were involved, as opposed to a vague and unscientific statement with no actual figures to support its conclusions (they may have the data, but it never makes it into the press releases)
Note the inclusion of actual figures ie. you can see how many emails were involved, as opposed to a vague and unscientific statement with no actual figures to support its conclusions (they may have the data, but it never makes it into the press releases)
