DeeKnow’s Grotto

Ground Effect Flying Boat - An Aussie company called Flightship has produced the worlds first commercial flying boat that operates on the principle of ground-effect. The first commercial version of this craft has a capacity of only 6 passengers, but a larger version called the Dragon Clipper will seat 40

5:15:11 PM  

The Bomb Builder Now Builds Schools - He built the bomb but now he builds schools. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of nuclear technology in Pakistan, is a national hero. Learn more about his life and achievements in an exclusive interview with YesPakistan.com.

5:11:34 PM  

Scientists create remote-controlled rats - by implanting electrodes in rats' brains, scientists have created remote-controlled rodents they can command to turn left or right, climb trees and navigate piles of rubble

5:09:36 PM  

WebLinks app is now using WaikCookie for Authentication. The HTTPD.CONF entry demands the presence of a Cookie, and the script itself handles Authorisation by extracting the username from the Cookie using a method from WaikCookie.pm

3:57:00 PM  

WaikCookie now has a 'user' directive thanx to a mod made by Jamie on the Asterix copy. We can now chain a set of groups, and individual users who are required but where perhaps the whole group does not need access.

3:54:33 PM  

Installed a new Browser_Info PHP script on Asterix as a replacement for the old ASP based on that was on dean.its. Have modified the webteam homepage to link directly to the new PHP based script and redirected dean.its to point to the replacement.

http://wwwtest.waikato.ac.nz/php/browser_info/

The old script was driven by user_agent string matches in a browscap.ini file which was way out of date and updates are really only usefully available by subscribing to the service (which MNGT do by the way). The new one does some sniffing of the contents of the UA string.

12:38:32 PM