It was interesting when I posted a news article to the WIA regarding IPv6, how quickly it got shot down by “experts”. A recent addition to our network was a 2008-model Apple MacBook, which I have dual-booting Gentoo and MacOS X 10.6.7 nicely. One quirk of this particular laptop though, is that it will, when [...]
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To whoever were responsible for developing this new feature in the latest Portage releases… zhouman portage # FEATURES=-test USE=-handbook\ -doc emerge -eukDN –keep-going system kde-meta vim poppler =xulrunner-2.0.1-r1 =vim-core-7.3.189 =gvim-7.3.189 gst-plugins-base vim =gst-plugins-theora-0.10.32 =firefox-4.0.1-r1 Calculating dependencies… done! !!! One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: app-editors/vim-core:0 (app-editors/vim-core-7.3.219::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for [...]
Well, I’ve been meaning to get around to fixing up svxlink in Gentoo for a long time now. For those who don’t know, svxlink is a client and server for the EchoLink amateur radio linking system. We had to stop releasing the Qtel client, as it relied on Qt3 which we no longer ship in [...]
If you live in Australia, do not purchase or operate this headset. This is what the offending article looks like:This headset radiates a carrier on the 2m amateur band. Specifically around 147.000MHz. In some parts of the world, the 2m amateur band extends from 144.000MHz to 146.000MHz. Here in Australia however, it goes all the [...]
Well, after 9 years of solid service, the Nokia 3310 I’ve been using finally bit the dust this weekend. And so now I’m getting my wish list together for what I’m looking for in a new device. One thing that gives me the irrits is companies trying to tell you the customer, what one wants. [...]
My Nokia 3310 died recently, and so I’ve been borrowing my father’s old ZTE T7 mobile phone. This has had one useful side-effect in that I was able to back-up the contents of my SIM card, namely, the phonebook. JoinME for MacOS X is quite capable of loading the data from the phone and storing [...]
The BP servo on the way to Donnybrook is bad when it comes to caravans… the one heading back to Brisbane is even worse. Horses have an aversion to orange and red coloured clothing (pity the organisers handed out red caps and orange shirts… also good thing we’re not the SES). Do not shine a [...]
Well… has anyone noticed anything different about the ‘net? stuartl@atomos ~ $ host www.google.com.au www.google.com.au is an alias for www.google.com. www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.52 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.48 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.49 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.50 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.51 www.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2404:6800:4006:802::1011 I knew World IPv6 [...]
Without wishing to sound harsh, two words: Don’t bother. There are a few reasons why I’m not on FaceBook… Need First and foremost, is a matter of need. The primary reasons why someone would set up something on FaceBook is to enable their friends to be able to locate them on the Internet. In my [...]
During the International Rally of Queensland, it was interesting to observe how people made use of the radios provided for the event. In fact, watching peoples’ behaviour to me, made it clear that none of them had any training in how to use one of these devices. And they all struggled, mostly as a result [...]
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