Category Archives: IT

Quick Tip – Make Anything A Windows Service

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Richard Nichols

I recently had to get nginx running as a Windows service and I came across a little project called “winsw” (Windows Service Wrapper) which was created by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – creator of Hudson/Jenkins. Apparently he created it while at Sun for … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Racing the Beam – The Atari Video Computer System

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Richard Nichols

I just finished reading Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) an interesting read about the Atari 2600 (or Atari VCS as it was orginally known). You might think that the Atari VCS was one of the … Continue reading →

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Converting Ebook Formats – .mobi to .epub

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Richard Nichols

As I recently blogged, I picked up an iPad, and have been using it (mainly) as an ebook reader. I prefer using the Kindle app on the iPad to read ebooks, and the Amazon Kindle book store seems to have … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the iPad…

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I picked up an iPad (finally) about a week ago. I had to resort to ordering online from Apple, since my preorder at JB Hifi had gone almost a month unfulfilled, and the staff there didn’t seem confident that they’d … Continue reading →

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