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Ethernet power on switch

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Dear internet,

After my laptop’s screen has died I’m looking for an ethernet power switch (one you plug into the ethernet port and uses wake-on-lan to turn on the computer). If you know where to buy one or you are capable of creating it please leave a comment.

Thanks.

UPDATE: It seems that wake-on-ring is much easier since you only need 5V between pin 5 (ground) and pin 9 (ring indicator) to wake the computer up. I got instructions from an expert (thanks!) and will now try to create a prototype.

Debikartica

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

The first case-study talk went quite well. Even though I work for the company that presented the project I learned quite a few new things which was great. Unfortunately the number of visitors was quite low – you really did miss on a few thing that could’ve triggered a few sleepy synapses.

Jernej and Igor were a good match, talking about the client and the methodology aspect and the technology respectively. I guess each of the themes actually deserve a talk of its own – unfortunately the number of Wednesdays in a season is finite and good willing speakers are hard to find around here. If you happen to know one (doesn’t need to be from Slovenia) drop a comment.

I’m quite busy in December as you can see from the lack of posts this month – I do have a few longer pieces in writing but don’t have time to finish them.

Internationalization

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Made up by Stuart: Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. Unfortunately no Slovenian special characters in it. Can I suggest that he changes the z into ž?

I feel Slovenia

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

I didn’t want to write about this shame, but now it got public.

No more breaking code

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Dean Edwards strikes again. This time he solved a problem with extending built-in objects that tends to break other scripts. It seems this might be utterly useful.

In other news I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow in Cyberpipe about sorting in JavaScript, datagrids and a bit of AJAX to spice it all up.

GPLed

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Java has finally been opensourced.