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
May 4th
Android malware being automatically distributed from hacked websites looks like it's being used to mask online purchases, and could be part of a fraud gang's new push into mobile, researchers said today.
May 4th
Adobe today warned that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in its popular Flash Player program, and issued an emergency update to patch the bug.
May 4th
Microsoft identified a Chinese security partner as the source of a leak last March in its highly restricted vulnerability information-sharing program.
May 3rd
A Windows developer, upset at the likely demise of Windows Live Writer as part of Microsoft's move to retire the Live brand, has launched an online petition drive to save the tool.
May 3rd
Apple's iPad reclaimed a larger share of the global tablet market last month, in part because of a more-serious-than-expected slump in sales of the hot Kindle Fire in the first quarter, IDC analysts said today.
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