Recently I went to see Dark Knight Rising with my wife. The volume in the cinema was too loud and we didn’t enjoy it because of that. My wife went out to complain to the only person she could find. A security guard who couldn’t be arsed to do anything about it. He said he […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Debugging of Pathfinder Rovers
Jeff Waugh @jdub tweeted an interesting article about how the previous Mars rovers turned out to have a fairly serious software problem, and how the JPL engineers diagnosed and fixed it. Some of the points I found particularly interesting: JPL use a propriety, off the shelf operating system to run the rovers (VxWorks) having a […]
Curiosity Rover about to land on Mars
Brendan sent a reminder that Mars Curiosity Rover is about to land. To get in the spirit you can: Follow @MarsCuriosity on twitter. Check out JPL’s mars rover site See some great photos of the construction and launch of the rover Watch the Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror
Flipping the mouse wheel scroll direction in Windows 7
I have been getting very confused between the mouse wheel scroll directions in Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion. As I consider OS X to be the future, I decided to try and flip the mouse wheel scroll direction in Windows. Turns out there is a registry setting to do this: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\????\????\Device Parameters Set […]
Using magnets to keep dust out of the cupboard
We recently bought an old kitchen cabinet that has a fly screen on one of the doors. I have found that it lets dust in over time, and when I go to use the glasses, they often have to be cleaned because they are dusty. I decided to make some sort of clear perspex screen […]