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The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in November, 2007

Hi All… After much waiting, the MIPS4 stages for little-endian MIPS systems are finally built. These are targeted at Cobalt users, but may also work for users of other MIPS4 and MIPS64 systems. The 2007.1 snapshot has seen a few changes in the time it’s taken me to compile this, so I may upload some [...]

Atomic MPC forum user, freakonaleash, asked an interesting question regarding sending faxes over IP. This got me thinking. We’ve got solutions for an internal LAN such as Hylafax for an intranet-based fax-over-IP solution. But nothing exists that could be considered similar to Voice-over-IP. I can’t use the internet for instance, to send a fax overseas [...]

Tony Abbott has become opposition leader and is now announcing his front bench. We cross now to Parliament House in Canberra… Abbott: Welcome everyone. As newly appointed opposition leader, I have decided on the following people for my front bench. I have chosen, Who for Shadow Treasurer, What for Shadow Industrial Relations Minister, and No [...]

The ABC has been doing a good job with the election coverage thus far… but I spotted this, and thought it highly amusing. It seems I’m in a Toorey electorate, with a +NaN swing in favour of the Liberals…

Hi All… Well, it seems I’m done building the MIPS1 stages for little-endian MIPS well ahead of time. I used one of the Lemote Fulong systems to build these, and had stage 1, 2 and 3 done in about a day and a half — which is a record for me — the Qube2 normally [...]

I discovered an interesting example of poor UI design today whilst checking the wireless configuration on my father’s laptop. The machine runs a factory installation of Microsoft Windows XP Professional (along side Gentoo Linux/x86) , and came with a little network configuration utility called IP Operator. IP Operator exhibits several interface abnormalities and issues. The [...]

Update: Seems I should have read this page first… we were thinking on the same wavelength afterall. I’ll leave the post here, since I think my (and Brian Lozier’s) argument is still valid with respect to the overheads in various templating engines… It has always fascinated me, with large-scale PHP projects, how people seem to [...]

Just recently, my old access point (D-Link DWL900 AP) decided to stop communicating with the 2.4GHz world (although ap-utils still talks to it via wired ethernet). So for the moment, we’re using a wireless router, HP’s hn200w. As an AP, it isn’t too bad, but as a router, it’s overkill for what I need — [...]

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