Posts tagged with "news"

Just under a year since the original What Slows Windows Down article and I'm gearing up for the third in the series. This time it's an antivirus-only arena and it's shaping up to be quite a deathmatch...

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in benchmarks, security & news. Continue reading »

Now with an added 245px width in the content section. Lovely or too fat for your liking? Please tell me what you think and help me fix any issues.

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in design & news. Continue reading »

Just an update about the recent and upcoming changes happing on and around the site. I'd love comments, tips and suggestions so if you've got something to say, read this post =)

Posted by Oli 34 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Well I'm just in the process of turning on full content feeds. I've got quite a bit of work to do on them before they're cool, but they should be better than the lame RSS responses the server's been giving until now.

Posted by Oli 35 months ago in rss & news. Continue reading »

Well I've been away from the writing side of the site for some time and I thought I'd give you all a little update on what I've been up to before I saddle up and start churning content out again. So where to start. My last official entry was on March

Posted by Oli 36 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Just a quick note to let you all know that the forums are now open and I'm just re-branding some of the other site sections, mostly the forms and comment display to bring them in-line with new design (and functionality) of the forums'. Feel free to make noise, suggest

Posted by Oli 37 months ago in news. Continue reading »

After a truly massive amount of JavaScript and VB.net programming, I'm almost ready to release the forums on the world. [image] The biggest changes since yesterday revolve around my adaptation and implementation of

Posted by Oli 38 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Well there has been an ongoing bug with the way the site works for a while and recently it decided to rear its ugly head while Digg was having their second glance at "What slows windows down". I take pride in my programming

Posted by Oli 38 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Well for anyone that doesn't know already, the Internet is on the verge of Google's PageRank refresh. This means they check to see how many people are linking to you, how "good" their sites are and assign you a value from 0 to 10 (10 being the best). This value gets used when ranking your

Posted by Oli 39 months ago in pagerank, google & news. Continue reading »

I've been chatting with the great folks in the 9rules notes sections for the past few days and over the course of several mammoth posts a few very decent suggestions have leaked out for here ranging from how I can attract comments through to promotion and even my writing style. But before

Posted by Oli 39 months ago in news. Continue reading »

I hope you're all having a good time, like I said in a previous post. I GOT A NEW CAMERA! Woo! I've just got a FujiFilm FinePix s5600: [image] This replaces my trusty, three-year-old Olympus mju300:

Posted by Oli 39 months ago in camera, suzie, christmas, photos & news. Continue reading »

Firstly, I've added a few more people to the friends list. Some of the people that used to be on there are still on there, but the list is now ordered by time so the latest updates float to the top and I'm only showing the most recent 7 blogs. Therefore, if you want to feature on there regularly,

Posted by Oli 39 months ago in news. Continue reading »

I'm just getting into the Christmas spirit... Thanks to Henri. [image] No, I don't condone smoking as it's extremely bad for you but if you DO smoke something, it might as well be one of these... In other news, I'll have the forums up sometime soonish (I'm just

Posted by Oli 40 months ago in christmas & news. Continue reading »

Anyone that's known me and my cars for more than 10 seconds knows I get through them at an astonishing rate. No, I don't crash them or sell them on the black market but my mother owns a garage so buys me a car and sells my old one... While usually still being able to get a profit of the sold car.

Posted by Oli 40 months ago in news. Continue reading »

They said it was only a matter of time and they were right... Coming on three years after it was finished, the Floor-5 powered remix of a classic game has been released in a format that some people might actually be able to play. [image] It has taken

Posted by Oli 41 months ago in games, java & news. Continue reading »

I love cats! But when Sozzles decided to go for a wee this last time, I had to kick her outside for the night. Here is a diagram of the power setup for my computer: [image] [image] Now imagine you introduced a lot of liquid into the multi-tap. Here is the sequence of events:

Posted by Oli 41 months ago in cats, silly & news. Continue reading »

What am I thinking? No that's very unfair. I've used Ubuntu on and off (more off than on) since it was first released. I've liked most of it apart from Gnome (always have prefered KDE) but over the weekend I decided, considering the way Ubuntu is consistently improving itself over its rivals, it's

Posted by Oli 41 months ago in ubuntu, linux, windows & news. Continue reading »

Well I think I've managed to turn my frown upside-down and have just released the latest design, and with it, the 9th evolution of ThePCSpy.com. A new version means new features. In this version the major goal is unlocking the membership features of the site, allowing members to customise what they

Posted by Oli 41 months ago in design & news. Continue reading »

Unhappiness is not a pleasant thing at the best of times and big wave of it has just hit me. I'm ankle knee waist

Posted by Oli 42 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Regular visitors may have noticed a slight change to the design =) I've expanded the design a lot and that 1% of people using 800*600 are going to have to get friendly with the scroll bars if they want to navigate. It's not something I wanted to do, but the old width (although that was too

Posted by Oli 42 months ago in news & design. Continue reading »

I thought I'd just post to keep people up on the status of KittenAuth getting to public use. Its my 22nd birthday today, and here I am, finishing off the aspnet version of KittenAuth v2. Its got all the features of the PHP V2 demo but works a lot smoother and is in code that I'm happy to release.

Posted by Oli 43 months ago in kittenauth, asp.net & news. Continue reading »

Just a quick update on me, KittenAuth and ThePCSpy.com. (Edit after typing) Well its quite a detailed look on what's going on, actually. I've been immensely busy and even more afk (away from keyboard) recently and that's why I've not been able to get back to some people via email

Posted by Oli 45 months ago in news. Continue reading »

I've been adding a couple of onsite features that appear to have broken everything. This warning isn't much use as if it goes down, you wont be able to read this, but if you're reading this, then it goes down, you might as well know its me throwing spanners in thw works. There are two features

Posted by Oli 47 months ago in news. Continue reading »

I know you're probably wondering what my limits are on version — 2 major versions in a month seems a little silly to me too — but that's how it is. The all new, all shiny, but still incomplete v2 comes with the following features: PHP code for that extra-fresh feeling.

Posted by Oli 47 months ago in kittenauth & news. Continue reading »

I've just posted an article on the likely future of KittenAuth which eliminates (almost) all the current problems that have been raised in the comments. I'm going to start working on reprising the PHP version with

Posted by Oli 47 months ago in kittenauth & news. Continue reading »

Firstly the response to KittenAuth has been IMMENSE! The kind people (look to the right now) that have donated have helped me an amazing amount by allowing me to fend off the evil bandwidth bill that will be heading to me at the end of the month. Just to sum up some of the craziness that's

Posted by Oli 48 months ago in kittenauth, news & digg. Continue reading »

Well its been an interesting couple of days. I invented KittenAuth (the single cutest human-verification method ever), published a write up on it and within hours the server was swamped in what can only be described as "the internet".

Posted by Oli 48 months ago in kittenauth, digg & news. Continue reading »

Hi everyone. Changelog I've been pretty busy getting the backend ready for the implementation of the forums but I've managed to get the following changes pushed into this version: I've removed all the adverts for the time being. They were making the navigation

Posted by Oli 49 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Just a few updates about the progress on the site. I've been taken by the beast that is AJAX. I've fallen badly but I'm trying to limit the amount of time I'm spending on it in order to concentrate better on the core functionality of the site. But anyway... I've made a little AJAX chat app

Posted by Oli 49 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Registration, logging in and comment posting is now turned on. Please report any mistakes, errors and omission if you have problems using any of the site functions. I'm currently working on styling a few elements of some pages before moving on to add the members profile page and some of the

Posted by Oli 49 months ago in news. Continue reading »

I'm after my last post I managed to implement the URLRewriter class. Its a pretty solid set of URL rewriting classes with its own HTTP Module in there based on a lot of other peoples tutorials surrounding the world of ASP.net. After the hell of trying to implement it for every document type

Posted by Oli 50 months ago in news. Continue reading »

HardPlant and I are currently waging war against the contents of the old database. We're converting all the old tutorials and their "tags" to proper HTML for the new article database. We're also adding them as we go, so over the next couple of days you should see all the proper sections

Posted by Oli 50 months ago in news. Continue reading »

Still working heavily on the data structure, but there has been massive progress so far.I'm working on the way posts are outputted at the moment but after that it should be quite a wick process to get the rest of the site up in a "read-only" fashion, if nothing elseAfter everything is

Posted by Oli 50 months ago in news. Continue reading »

We've kept and modified the old database structure over and over again in previous evolutions.. I guess we should really call this a revolution as we've given everything not just an overhaul, but a complete rebuilding.

Posted by Oli 50 months ago in news. Continue reading »