Emma was our family pet, of almost 18 years. She arrived in the family, as a barely 6-week old kitten in late 1990, and has been part of this family ever since. We’re not exactly sure when she was born… possibly around August/September. She had a comfortable life, at times playful, much of the time [...]
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Browsing Posts published in June, 2008
Well, I spent much of my weekend fooling around with antennas in one form or another. I had taken down my HF rig to bring to the Brisbane Amateur Radio Club social — to sort out why it wouldn’t tune up on 10m… the problem turned out to be my power supply. I was using [...]
I’m pleased to annouce the final 2008.0 stages have been published. I haven’t yet gotten around to giving them a run, I’ll set up a couple of chroots and do some test builds shortly, but in the meantime, I have put them up on my devspace for public review. As previously announced, this release sees [...]
Well, presently I’m reading through the semester’s lecture slides to familiarise myself with the content I’m going to be examined on shortly. And I’m noticing there are some bad habits that lecturers seem to be keen on repeating… again, and again. Here’s some of my pet hates, as a student. These relate to the presentation [...]
Another one that arrived via the Department of Defence… this time, a rather striking series of images. I have no idea where these photos were taken, or who was involved… but anyway. Enjoy. 
The following is an email I just received via the Department of Defence. Enjoy. (Update: It has been revealed by a commenter to this post, that the transcript below is a hoax. Cheers for the info.) For those that don’t know him, Major General Peter Cosgrove is an ‘Australian treasure!’ General Cosgrove was interviewed [...]
Hi all… This is more a note to myself… but may also be useful with others who may be wondering WTF is wrong with their mod_auth_mysql setup. To configure it, do it as per the instructions mentioned in the CONFIGURE file, or even following the /etc/apache2/modules.d/12_mod_auth_mysql.conf that the ebuild installs… HOWEVER… you will need to [...]
Seems I’ve coined a new term tonight… “faceborg”. Okay… seems others have come up with the same idea before me, as pointed out by others. Not sure what to call the MySpace users… I’m sure someone will come up with a succinct term for them. Ever since social networking sites such as MySpace and FaceBook [...]
… is not a pretty tale at this point. At the moment, I’m a bit pissed off. Some inconsiderate bastards in my neighbourhood are playing crap music at top volume (Yes… I’m talking about YOU, at the Settlement Road/Kaloma Road intersection!) — so loud in fact, that wearing earmuffs with a 80dB attenuation rating, does [...]
Hi all… In the absence of recent netboot images, you might find these notes useful. These describe how to install Gentoo without the use of a netboot image, but rather, making your own, and using root-over-NFS. This same guide can also be used to port Gentoo to other presently unsupported MIPS hardware. What you need… [...]
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