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The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in January, 2011

Well, you’ve probably heard about it by now. http://lcaunderthestars.org.au/ To be held in Ballarat, Victoria. I have no idea whether I’ll make it, but this year has been fun.

Well, I won’t say much but point-to-point and point-to-multipoint does not have to be short-range or rely on centralised infrastructure. People have been using a means of such communication for over 100 years, which allows for ad-hoc, distributed communications. Yes, it prohibits the use of encryption, but that doesn’t prevent us from using it as [...]

Well, the conference is nearing its end, and yesterday morning it was showing. Wednesday night finished up rather late. Yesterday I had a look at Rusty Russell’s talk on advanced C programming. Very enlightening, although much of it went woosh over my head due to my state of sleepiness and the speed of the presentation. [...]

Well, this day the conference got on in earnest. Tuesday I spent almost all my time in the Parallel computing conference, which was very interesting. The first session was, let’s just say, very interactive. Dr. Vinton Cerf giving a presentation on the implications of parallel computing on network infrastructure, wound up being as much him [...]

Yesterday was great. A lot of interesting discussion on Ardunio and the business of Open Source, particularly the commercial implications of the GPL. Well worth seeing. Today has been good so far too. Been in N515 listening to the parallel computing talks, and it has been very interactive as well. Whilst listening, I’ve set myself [...]

Well one Lemote Fuloong 2F system has already been given away, and the new owner has been asked to try and find out about them. Some of you may be aware of some Lemote related resources on my devspace.  I’ll try to get some Fuloong 2F stuff up there,  but I’m flying blind as I [...]

Well, here I am.  Just registered and watching the stream flowing into the rego desk.  It’s not a queue, it’s the whole alphabet.  The only queue I’ve seen longer recently was the one to the checkout at the local shopping centre just before the flood peak. Journey between The Gap and Kelvin Grove along Waterworks [...]

Well, that pretty much explains me the last few days.  Haven’t really done much planning, just been taking it one day at a time.  Ironically, it’s exactly what I recall seeing as the theme for linux.conf.au this year.  The very same year that the Brisbane and Bremer rivers decided to get out of bed and [...]

For now at least… Rain is continuing to pour down on us here in The Gap (Brisbane North) and while the gutters resemble little rivers at the moment, things aren’t too bad. Elsewhere in Brisbane, things aren’t so great. For those who have been “praying for rain” in this area, you can stop now, we’ve [...]