Nokia N95 Light Sabre

By Martin English | July 1, 2009

I’ve never really suffered from jesus phone envy, especially considering the number of features that were missing on earlier iPhones. However, there was one application that could have made me change my mind, and that was the Light Sabre application.

So when i found a Nokia Light Sabre Application, I had to have it.

  1. Download and install the
    Accelerometer API plugin on your phone,
  2. Download the Nokia Light Sabre sisx file to your phone (do not install yet),
  3. Set your phone’s date to within 6 months of 11 january 2008 (otherwise the phone thinks the Nokia Security Certificate is expired),
  4. restart the phone,
  5. Install the Light Sabre file and start saving the Universe.

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By Martin English | June 28, 2009

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Celebrating 30 years of mainframe support

By Martin English | May 19, 2009

You may know that CSC hit the big 50 this year. A local 30 year milestone has been reached as well.

In 1978 the Port Kembla steelworks (then called Australian Iron and Steel or AIS, now owned by Bluescope Steel and supported by CSC Asustralia) received a water cooled IBM 3032 mainframe with 4M of memory, a replacement for it’s existing CDC machines. One of the first things written for the IBM was an application “development/runtime environment” called STANDFAST. It provided a standard way to use IMS for the application programmer and a standard “look and feel” for customers. All on-line IMS applications developed on the mainframe for AIS used STANDFAST.

According to the internal documentation the first programs were written in May 1979 or 30 years ago this month and they are still going strong.

BHP, then owner of the Steel Works, outsourced computer services to CSC in 2000. Later on, BHP divested itself of what became Bluescope Steel. However, support for the mainframes (and their applications) remained with CSC.

The upshot is a 30 year old application, still being supported by some of the original implementers.

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Twitter Updates for week ending 2009-05-17

By Martin English | May 17, 2009

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10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog

By Martin English | May 11, 2009

With WordPress so popular these days, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers, so securing your blog is more and more important. The catswhocode.com provide 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog.

They have a large array of useful WordPress tips and tricks, including another recent one about 10 awesome .htaccess hacks for WordPress.

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