After a while of searching, I’ve finally found a job!
I now work for a company called Eldin in the Welsh town of Machynlleth.
My job is to switch on and off the new ERTMS system that is being installed on the Cambrian line.
After a few days on the job I can say that I’m really enjoying it and I hope that when my contract ends in December I’ll get to stay on for some more!
After a hectic week I have finally finished the translations.
The script now lives here, while the blog concerned with it lives here.
Yesterday, two stories emerged which caught my attention, the first was saying how Dell has created a version of Firefox that runs in a sandbox, the second said how Adobe are going to sandbox Reader.
I find it interesting that this is being done for the reasons it is being done. Chrome sandboxes tabs, IIRC, to enhance performance; if something crashes it only crashes that tab, not the whole browser.
By sandboxing something like Adobe Reader, all you are doing is saying “We really can’t be arsed to fix this, lets put it in a situation where it doesn’t need to be fixed”, isn’t that like having a leaky bucket and rather than patching it just putting it into a larger bucket? It works, but it’s lazy.
Is this the new lazy era of computing?* If it’s a security risk shove it in a sandbox?
*The previous era being lack of memory management and consideration for CPU usage because the hardware will support anything we write
I’ve moved the blog again!
I got fed up with it being under hasnbang0.com/blog, I decided to move it to it’s own subdomain. The reason it was bugging me was that it was mixed in with all of my other files. I needed to make scripts test to make sure it didn’t touch the blog files, and that was a nuisance (simple, but a nuisance).
So, here we are: blog.hashbang0.com
Please update any links, and your RSS/Atom feeds, here are the updated feed links:
I’ve no plans to move from now on, and I’m going to do a bit of trickery to make hashbang0.com/blog still work for anyone who really doesn’t want to update their links.
Yesterday Apple released iTunes 9.2 touting the following enhancements: Continue reading
Ars Technica published this article the other day which says how Apple are not awarding Mac applications the Apple Design Award this year and are instead focussing on the iPhone and the iPad. Continue reading
Graduating on the 15th of July means that I am no longer tied to the Aberystwyth University, legally no longer a student, and at the end of my 18 year ‘career’ in education… Continue reading
Today I was sitting in the chair watching a film playing on my Mac Pro. After much getting up and sitting back down to turn the light off, tilt the screen, etc. I found that the sound was too quiet, and I was darned if I was going to get up again!
I had my MacBook sitting on my lap, and was sure I could change the volume from that.
After some searching, I found some magic AppleScript to do the job for me! After some remembering, I managed to execute that AppleScript on the command line. Here’s what I did: Continue reading
I meant to blog about this ages ago! Better late than never I suppose…
Back in April (April 22nd to be precise) I handed in two copies of my 72 page document which outlines everything about my project. I wanted to blog about my dissertation while I was doing it, but the thought was always pushed back by other thoughts of actually doing the project. Continue reading
So, over the last week and last night I have been working on a script to automagically generate galleries, not that that is finished I have a brand new gallery up and running.
I have also created a breadcrumb script, in the status bar of the window you should see a new breadcrumb trail 
The following browsers are supported 100%:
Please send me any feedback on the new design
