TOCPCs – The Elite Geeks Blog

I hit a small problem tonight, I wanted to make it possible for a GreaseMonkey Javascript running on one domain, to publish data to another site using GM_xmlHttpRequest.
The problem was cookies. In order to recognise the person posting, the site requires cookies, and that’s just something XHR can’t manage outright by itself. So, I devised [...]

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I love a good day, when everything falls into place, there’s no real problems / difficulties.
And, after previously deciding to tell CBA to shove it, I’ve since changed my mind and took up a Personal Loan with them for the renovation work. When you consider the discounts we get for bundling all the products, the [...]

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We have some funds in redraw we can put towards the renovations. The new mortgage paperwork arrived today, and I’ve thought about it in detail after seeing the final figures and having some questions raised.
I contacted our Loans rep from RAMS tonight with some questions, particularly around the refinancing figures, and suggesting a Personal Loan [...]

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What lunatics do we have elected in our federal governing body?
I’ve had a look at the Environment Minister’s website tonight after hearing a news article about the Insulation / Hot Water rebate being scrapped.
Immediate disappointment struck as our subsidised, yet, still to be installed system would face a $1600 increase.
My thoughts earlier today were that [...]

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When you create a VoIP call, you invite the remote peer, who accepts or rejects, and there is a “SIP” session initiated. A SIP session is valid for pretty much anything, text, voice, audio, video, images, data – anything. SIP being the session, there’s no limit to what you can do with that ’session’. [...]

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The valuers thought Weathertex would be a better value. I asked my partner to ask the builder whether he would do weathertex, and what it’d come in at. His indication was ‘it would be cheaper’.
The builder operates rather differently to how I’d do it. I like a rough indication, I don’t want him to go [...]

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And the current value is under the previous real estate’s ‘market appraisal’, but then real estate isn’t always consistent.
The valuers claim that for the money we’d outlay, only a 50% increase in value would occur (meaning, we’d be sinking half our money). That makes sense though, my calculations would suggest about half the quote to [...]

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As I previously anticipated, iiNet have won the case against them for copyright infringement, but there’s a very strong chance this case will end up in the High Court – there’s no question AFACT won’t accept this verdict.
So, there will be an appeal, what the grounds for that appeal have some options.
AFACTs counsel made a [...]

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