LCA is over, My brain hurts.
I've been assured that in order to blog you don't actually need to have anything useful to say. I thought I start with the obligatory linux.conf.au is over post. All things considered it was a blast...
View ArticleBlogging leads to ....
... Needing an RSS feed and apparently an aggregator (sp?) tool locally. I chose sage mostly because I always have firefox open, and partially because it was recommended to me. This entirely...
View ArticleBah!
Do "they" [whoever "they" are ] think we wont notice? # egrep 'Failed password for root from.*ssh2' /var/tmp/munged.log | cut -d' ' -f12 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 6 210.206.30.139 16 84.244.0.157 44...
View ArticleBack From NZ
Went to NZ for the ghosts meeting with the LCA2006 crew. Was lots of fun. Recommend the Allan Court Motel for people needing self-catering accommodation, and the Eureka cafe/bar for those in need of...
View ArticleI discovered today I can warp space
When I started riding to ANU with a trip computer on-board the distance was 17.1kms. Today my ride was 16.8kms. Wheee that's 300 meters I've saved. I haven't altered my route, so the only logical...
View Articleswsusp2 works!
Finally after trying every now and again it's working. install kernel 2.6.11.11 install swsusp2 2.1.8 apt-get install vbetool hibernate acpid I think the key is vbetool, which Bernard told me about at...
View ArticleFixed
Due to the way I installed blosxom my permanent links didn't work unless (like Mikey) you included the index.cgi in the URL. Well that's fixed now. For those that may or may not care this is the...
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Appealing?
Well today I was asked when daylight savings comes into effect. After playing with the date command I discovered the following: tony@balder:~$ date -R -d 'Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:59:59' Sun, 30 Oct 2005...
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Blog Meme: File extension.
In trying to avoid Uni I decided to fill in the survey. I don't think the result is accurate ;P Which File Extension are You?
View ArticleWhy I use Linux
I was asked on the bus today[1] "So like Linux huh? Why?", well words to that effect anyway. I was about to enter into a brain dump on Opensource but decided to relate a story instead. While a number...
View ArticleBon Voyage
Wishing Andrew and Mikal a safe trip and lots of great times at the other end.
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Who can resit?
A meme and a Middle Earth meme at that! Entish To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? brought to you by Quizilla
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Happy Graduation to Me!
Sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday": Happy graduation to me Happy graduation to me I got my degree-ee Happy graduation to me As Steve mentions I went out and got me one of these. Click for a larger...
View ArticleBack from the abyss
At last week's CLUG meeting Steve pointed at this blog, and the lack of activity, and berrated me for being so slack. So I'm inventing stuff to blog about. Occaisonally I need to know what time it is...
View ArticleDamn rusty and his 5 things!
I was not tagged by Rusty in the five things meme. Below are 5 things about me that I've not blogged about. I'm addicted to Survivor I think Abstract art is a waste of wall space, time, materials and...
View ArticleMore use?
Do new years resolutions count if you make the 4 days in?. If they do then; this is a new years resolution; if they don't then I've just decide to ... blog more. Given I only blogged twice in 2006,...
View ArticleZurich eh?
So Mikey claims he can travel to Zurich and then $180m in artwork goes missing. Coincidence? ...
View ArticleMuscle Memory
Like most of you that type passwords often I tend to let my finger's "muscle memory" do the hard work remembering my passwords. This works rather well except on two occasions When you come back from...
View ArticleExperiments in Fedora 0x00
So it's been a long time since I used RPM based distro "in anger", so I'm trying Fedora 9. First tips yum check-update Check all enabled repositories for update and display them. yumdownloader --source...
View ArticleExperiments in Fedora 0x01
Running your own local yum repo isn't all that hard as it turns out. Allow building as a non-root user. Make some important directories. I only care about powerpc packages, so I make the ppc and ppc64...
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