Archive for the ‘tech’ Category

Happy 20th Birthday

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

From: Geoff Huston Sent: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 6:27 PM Subject: [AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet On the night of the 23rd June 1989 Robert Elz of the University of Melbourne and Torben Neilsen of the University of Hawaii completed the connection work that bought the Internet to Australia. It ...

marching south

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

As it type this I'm sitting at the Pier at Port Melbourne waiting to drive onto the Spirit of Tasmania to head to Hobart via Davenport for Linux.conf.au 2009. I've got the kit for 2 radio shots to cover the Casino and another venue, plus I've got 6 Sony HVR ...

scraping away

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

My Blog's been scraped again, this time by a site called "TryNewSh*t" who claim to "..help readers find new blogs and we help bloggers expand their audience.". yay.

Going away to a dark place..

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

A few people have commented on how quiet my blog has been over the last few months, and it's mainly been related to the direction my contract took for a period of time. My current contract is orientated towards producing solutions primarily with open source products. Wireless redirectors based around squid, ...

scraped again..

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

It looks like my posts are appearing on another syndication site without attribution again, this time at a site called "MundoSitio.com". Might have to add a redirection somewhere in my apache config..

Brain Dump

Friday, June 6th, 2008

With the end of the financial year coming up, I've been doing a lot of machine change overs for clients. One of the things I've been trying to do where possible is make the installed software play nice with SELinux, so this post is a brain dump for the setsebool ...

joneses..

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Keeping up with Erik de Castro Lopo, Steve Hanley, Jon Oxer and Mike Beattie isn't that hard; The HP nx6320 running Fedora7 (about to go to Fedora9), then the four screens run 3 desktops. The desktop machine itself is a standard Fedora8 install, the machine has two Nvidia cards. The ...

Spring Cleaning

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

A little late, but I've done a spring clean on the site, upgraded wordpress and coppermine to the latest version, and changed the theme to something a little nicer on the eyes. Let me know if you find something odd and I'll look into it.

Vale John Greenham

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Erin's stepfather passed away on the 14th March, after a long battle with stomach Cancer. This was his third relapse of the disease, and even though he fought it with the same vigour and testicular fortitude that he had the previous times, this was to be his last. Right up ...

follow the link..

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I notice that Russell Coker has boarded his Soap Box on the topic of Small Form Factor laptops for Schools. In it, he says There is no information on what OS is installed on the Intel Classmate. I’m guessing that it’s some proprietary OS (I expect that they would boast if ...