The Mt. Coot-tha repeater, VK4RBC has been plagued by interference for as long as I can remember. Usually the interference problems have been nothing more than annoying, but tonight it’s been particularly bad. It appears that somewhere on Mt. Coot-Tha, someone is operating an illegal pair of cordless headphones, at a frequency of 433.525MHz (input [...]
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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 [...]
… 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… There seems to be a little confusion as to whether the PS2 is supported by Gentoo. To clarify, it isn’t. There was never any effort to officially support the PS2. Some unofficial work did begin some years ago, however that work ceased fairly early on, and there has been no interest in continuing [...]
People who know me, will know I’m quite a keen supporter of open source projects. I’m not nearly as fanatical about it as others, such as Richard Stallman, but I try to support open source as much as I can. However, I suppose I’m a much bigger supporter, of open standards, than open source. I [...]
Well, once again I’ve got a bee in my bonnet … and once again, it’s Microsoft that I’m whining about. This time, it’s not the office suite that “Works” by name (but not by nature), but rather, their pathetic excuse for file system management. I’m sure most people have heard of the FAT and NTFS [...]
The following is a bit of a rant, involving my beef with one of Microsoft’s lesser known products, the “Works” productivity suite. More specifically, its interactions with a certain HP DeskJet 2360 (IIRC) printer. A friend of ours does treasury work for a small business. The business owns a Dell laptop (reasonable spec machine) running [...]
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 [...]
There’s been a rather disturbing trend lately. In recent times, we’ve all seen a very high increase in the number of players in the portable computing market, and a significant reduction in the cost of laptops. People are demanding more features packed in, higher performance, etc. This is fine… however it seems laptop manufacturers overlook [...]
Yep… it’s another gripe… this time, Symantec’s (really Roxio’s tool) system recovery tool, “GoBack” is in my sights. For a while, my father has been talking about getting back into using Linux. He recently replaced his dying IBM ThinkPad T22 laptop, with a much more modern LG P1 Express. The machine came pre-loaded with Windows [...]
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