This has come as a shock, but it seems Steve Irwin, well known for his work in wildlife documentaries internationally as well as numerous other areas, is now deceased.
The this recording was grabbed from Triple M News just 10 minutes ago. There is a full article on the incident here along with a discussion here. Those wishing to leave a tribute to his family should have a look here.
Yep… you heard right… someone on eBay is selling Pluto.
Quick… dive in now… this is your one in a lifetime opportunity to claim your own planet. 
After a recent clean up of our solar system the IAU has realized we no longer need Pluto. We have 1 planet, Pluto for sale. This icy planet would look great on any mantel piece, or a perfect center piece for any room, a great conversation starter.
Ohh yes… Bewarned of the danger that is the drop bear, if you ever decide to go camping in Australia’s wilderness.
The following, is a discussion from #gentoo-dev where the topic came up.
23:10 < @mark_alec> christel: the IRC meeting times look good to me, as I shall be on school holidays during that time, so provided I don't go camping I will definately be turning up 23:10 < @christel> excellent mark_alec 23:10 < @christel> <3 23:10 < @beu> CAMPING 23:10 < @mark_alec> YES 23:10 < @mark_alec> in the bush with kangaroos 23:10 < @beu> mmmbush 23:11 < @christel> haha 23:11 < @christel> kangaroos23:11 < @mark_alec> they taste good ya know, very red and very low in fat 23:11 < @beu>
23:11 * beu prefers sheeps 23:11 < @christel> i r go shower 23:11 < @mark_alec> speak english good u 23:11 < @Redhatter-O2> Emu tastes good too 23:11 < @mark_alec> haven't ever had emu 23:11 < @Redhatter-O2> But it's bloody fast food. 23:12 < @phreak``> Redhatter-O2: ostrich too
23:12 < @beu> astral projection goes well with sheep 23:12 < @mark_alec> i had crocodile once, but it was in a sausage so i couldn't tell what it was like 23:12 < @mark_alec> astral projection++ 23:12 < @beu> hah 23:12 < @Redhatter-O2> (Think, the kyote running after the road runner, knife and fork in hand) 23:12 < @phreak``> beu: you like sheep pretty much eh ?
23:20 < @Redhatter-O2> ian: You don't believe me? 23:20 < @mark_alec> http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/dropbear.jpg 23:20 < @mark_alec> ^ that is what i save people camping from 23:22 < @ian> silly bears 23:22 < @phreak``> mark_alec: err, that beast has some pretty longish teeth 23:22 < @Redhatter-O2> phreak``: They're nasty... you don't want to cross one. 23:23 < @phreak``> Redhatter-O2: imagined that .. looks like a crossing between tiger and koala 23:25 < @mark_alec> good night, double maths in the morning at school tomorrow 23:25 < @antarus> "A drop bear (or dropbear) is a fictitious Australian marsupial supposedly related to the koala" 23:26 < @mark_alec> s/fictitious/real 23:26 < @lu_zero> dropbear? 23:26 < @lu_zero> as in userfriendly? 23:26 < @mark_alec> scroll up, they are very scary 23:27 < @antarus> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_snake 23:27 < @lu_zero> it's just a koala smiling 23:31 < @Redhatter-O2> antarus: Don't believe everything Wikipedia says. 23:35 < @antarus> Redhatter-O2: heh
I’ll see if I can dig up the particular podcast from Spoonman’s talkback show where they’re mentioned. But they are a very real danger. Travellers bewarned.
Update: I finally got around to looking at my archives… it seems it was mentioned Tuesday the 8th of August, however, it didn’t make it into the podcast. Due to legal reasons, I don’t think I can publish the recording I have.
I was just browsing the forums, as I do… and saw this forum post mentioning a new OS. Well, naturally, I headded right over and had a look.
YouOS runs inside a web browser and provides a basic but fully customisable desktop, whereever you happen to have an internet connection. It’s fully expandable, with developers busy writing new applications for this system each day.
At the moment, the system is in early days, and there are various glitches throughout, but the system as it stands now is a brilliant attempt.
Hi all… I was doing my usual random browsing of the various forums, when I came across this thread.
Go to http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/976/HTML/docshell.asp?URL=tax_cuts.htm and have a close look at the page.
Looks fine eh?
Try clicking on the link for the calculator they mention.
Get anywhere? I didn’t think so… here’s why:
<p>The Treasury has prepared a simple indicative <a xhref="http://172.16.11.147/contentitem.asp?NavId=007&ContentID=976" mce_href="http://172.16.11.147/contentitem.asp?NavId=007&ContentID=976">calculator</a>
Uhh huh… yep… this government doesn’t understand RFC 1918. Most people here know that 172.16.0.0/16 isn’t accessible to anyone publically, and the network admins looking after the government infrastructure should know better. I’d suggest Bonzai and his government may wish to learn a little about TCP/IP, and/or consult with someone who does (not necessarily those who claim to).
Update: It seems the URL has been fixed now… Still… it was amusing while it lasted.
Well, it’s that time again… time to wind up the Qube2, and get it building a seed stage in preparation for yet another release of Gentoo.
Then it’ll be a case of waiting for the official 2006.1 snapshot to be released, and the full stagebuilds will begin in earnest. I may release pre-2006.1 stageballs, we’ll see how everything pans out.
I’ll keep you all posted.
Saw this on the Atomic MPC forums.
I thought it was a rather appropriate comeback. Not to mention artistic.
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msolok: perhaps limit WTB threads somehow im not exactly sure but I’ll try think of a way it’ll never be implemented though so I may not even bother. Well, technically they ARE getting off their arses and looking. I think it’s bridge time for you.
Sturmgeist: You wanna build it for me?
msolok:
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Many of you, who follow the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Request For Comment listings, would be aware that, almost every year, they put out a joke RFC as a bit of April Fools humour.
Examples of this include…
Discussion has erupted on the Atomic MPC forums about RFC2549: IP over Avian Carriers with QoS and other quirky methods for transmitting IP datagrams, such as EmuNet (a high-speed bulk land protocol), KangNet and CTP (Casowary Transport Protocol, for sensitive data). Ohh… And WomTun, for tunneling past those irritating barbed-wire and electrified firewalls.
I was just reading up on the Atomic MPC forums (as I do), when one of the others posted a thread regarding the formation of the OpenDocument Format Alliance. This is a group of companies and organisations, who have decided to move away from proprietry formats such as Microsoft Office’s formats, and instead, use the OpenDocument formats, which are defined by the OASIS group.
The format incidentally, recently got sent to the ISO, and is on its way to becomming an official standard… versus MS Office, which is only a de-facto standard.
For a long time, I’ve been fed up of receiving word documents in emails — many from people who should know better. Even to the point, where I started sending auto-replies to offenders, advising them of the errors in their ways. I’m hoping QUT, and other organisations, pick up on this. The sooner companies realise that there are better alternatives, and move to these more open alternatives, the better.
Yep, I’m guilty of doing this sort of thing… take a 13 year-old piece of kit like an SGI Indy, and chuck Linux 2.6 with KDE 3.5 on it. But how about this…
A group of individuals, with seemingly too much time on their hands, have successfully managed to run Windows XP on as little as 8MHz clock speed and 16MB RAM. See this page for more details.
Now I’m really tempted to get my 386 back out of the garage, and try KDE 3.5 on it.
Update: I tried this the other day. After spoon-feeding the box with floppies (nfsroot didn’t want to work, largely because the eepro driver was looking for my LAN card on IRQ 11 instead of 10), and spending all day watching tar -xjvpf stage3-hardened-x86-2005.1.tar.bz2 run its course, I’ve come to the conclusion I had before I attempted the procedure.
With a speed of just over 4 (bogo)Mil instructions/sec, and numerous 80486+ instructions creeping into the Python and sshd binaries, I’ve decided it’s not worthwhile. I might try kernel 2.4 on it later (it used to run Slackware 8.0 w/ kernel 2.4.18 just fine), but right now it’s my Gentoo-powered footrest.
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