Welcome to Man-Machine
The site uses blog style topics on computer orientated content of tips, hints, 'How-to's' and 'Walk throughs'. Ideas and projects get published here so that hopefully others may make use of it. The skill range varies from 'Dummy' to 'Expert', the content covers different styles of machine usage from 'Home desktop' to 'Program developement' and from XP to 64bit Linux. Information on this site is given freely and without warranty for general interest and creative purposes.
Latest Blogs
May 25th
Here is a little demo I did to help get my head around using cairo and pango as I wanted to have a base for a flexible widget. It uses scaling ,translation and animation to bounce an image around the screen. There is also a routine for detecting mouse cli...
March 22nd
How to fix non functioning alps touchpad on a Sony Vaio F12
December 31st
Installing PyGTK can be frustrating if you have the wrong file set or downloaded from yet another incomplete source. This is a quick install guide, an easy walk through with the links to install PyGTK into Python26 complete with the Glade Editor.
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December 14th
Parsing using Beautiful Soup, Example of using the Beautiful Soup html / xml parser
December 13th
An example of using the Python Imaging Library or PIL to produce Captcha style pictures from a given text.
December 10th
This is a mirrored RAID or RAID1 configuration on the Gigabyte GA890GPA-UD3H motherboard using the GSATA (as its a Dual). Bootup the machine, BIOS reports "Raid degraded" error. Rebuild the raid using the BIOS or win util. Reboots with the same problem...
December 9th
The Big Green Clock is a PyGTK example or GTK used in Python. Its a simple 7 segment style real time clock. Here I will walk you through the python elements that makes this clock really tick.
December 7th
Installing PyGTK can be frustrating if you have the wrong file set or downloaded from yet another incomplete source. This is a quick install guide, an easy walk through with the links to install PyGTK into Python25 complete with the Glade Editor.
Latest news
January 18th
Apple's iPhone made major inroads among recent buyers in its battle against smartphones running Google's Android, but still lagged behind its OS rival, pollster Nielsen said today.
January 18th
Microsoft today said it opposes a controversial anti-piracy bill in the U.S., but did not join the widespread "Internet strike" that sites like Google and Wikipedia were conducting.
January 18th
A security company's advice on how to circumvent today's anti-SOPA Wikipedia blackout has roiled some users.
January 18th
Mozilla, the open-source organization responsible for Firefox, joined other major technology companies today to protest anti-piracy legislation by blackening the browser's home page.
January 17th
Symantec today backed away from earlier statements regarding the theft of source code of some of its flagship security products, now admitting that its own network was compromised.
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