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| Saturday, August 16th, 2008 | | 11:18 am |
Olympics for REAL men! A rare post for me, but I had to share given the current Olympic climate. http://www.realmansolympics.com/This is pure gold! (pun only partially intended) The Olympic medal tally, but weighted for each event's manliness! Unfortunately Australia just doesn't rate due to our swimmer's fruity costumes ;). One cool thing is that you can put in your own weights for events, so you can make your own medal tally based on your own arbitrary criteria! | |
| | Thursday, July 12th, 2007 | | 10:45 pm |
I just watched the ABC global warming doco...
And I only have one thing to say, and that is...
Who let the eugenics nutters into the audience??
I mean really.....Did they just manage to accidently find them all in the audience? Were they just the only ones wanting to ask questions? Did they sneak in en-masse?
If nothing else the audience "question time" made for some laughs tonight!! | | Saturday, July 7th, 2007 | | 9:09 am |
| | Sunday, January 7th, 2007 | | 11:52 pm |
Well, that is Linux updated to a new core for another year.
I am fairly impressed with how smoothly these updates to Fedora go. This is the second time I have simply dumped the DVD into the PC and said update, and so far, both have been pretty successful.
Try doing that to Windows and see how many problems you get!!
For the record, this update was from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. I am getting into the habit of updating every 2 cores when the previous version looses its update support.
The only problems I had were several unresolved dependencies...usually the result of an obsolete utility package that could just be removed entirely, and a few services that weren't quite fully installed.
All hardware, drivers and settings seemed to be retained. Even the problematic Java stuff seems pretty solid.
Only one problem now is that the auto updater seems to have changed its behaviour (doesn't download updates nightly like before), and none of the documentation I can find has listed this change. BAH!
This prompted another spate of software updates on my own PC....things that I usually don't check as a week by week thing....firmwares, UPS, hardware monitoring.
Also been playing Lego Starwars 1. The sequel is by FAR the better game......the original has several sectoins where you can trap yourself, or the AI will screw something up. Also the vehicle sections are abominable. The general design and quality of puzzles is also lacking. | | Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 | | 5:55 pm |
| | Saturday, December 30th, 2006 | | 9:19 pm |
Ok, I'm impressed
Yep, I should have looked at the google homepages first before asking questions ;).
Thanks to those who suggested I check it out. My god these clever little boffins are good aren't they? The shit that google manage to put together in web pages is amazing.
I guess that's is what comes from a development environment where the geeks are allowed to bend their wills to whatever the hell they feel like. Getting payed to PLAY is the way to get results in technology I think. Hell, I think I get more work done when I am "unmanaged" at work myself. I am lucky that my boss is pretty hands off most of the time. | | Friday, December 29th, 2006 | | 6:20 pm |
What is your homepage? After a long hiatis I post once again. I have been on holiday over the Agnostica/New Years break, and aside form a couple of nasty (read 10) callouts in the last 2 days, it has been spent watching telly and playing Lego Starwars 2 on the laptop. I have somewhat questionably decided to swap ISP's over this period too, which has led to about a weeks worth of downtime. Luckily, being on call has allowed me to leech off the work's wireless connection in the meantime, so I haven't been completely offline (I would have enabled dial up but I forgot that my NEW shiny linux motherboard only had a single serial port which was being used by the UPS...doh). Anyway....I am not on IINet's shiny ADSL2'ness and have a question. What do you use as your homepage? I have traditionally used my ISP's homepage/member page as my home, but after moving from Westnet's great members page to IINet's somewhat bland home page, I am looking to break tradition. I am tempted to simply point my browser to Google and be done with it....fast, small, and useful. But I want options.....I like opening the browser to see a local TV guide, news headlines, and weather info. Yes, I could just keep using Westnet's members page, I hear you saying, but that feels a bit...wrong, I dunno. Times are a changin and I feel like a change too :). I downloaded a free VOIP client to test out the VOIP I am paying for, for no good reason, and that seems to work nicely. I am still trying to figure a use for it mind you, as I don't know anyone internationally, or interstate for that matter. I am also resisting the urge to spend over $300 on a wireless VOIP phone that would save me approximately fuckall on calls since I generally don't make any.....but damn.....an IP enabled 802.11 phone....that is just cool. Actually it is phone envy all round after having a gander at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hbb's shiny newness. I think I might give up on my slim hope that Nokia will decide to release an 850MHz HSDPA version of their N95 marvel, and go for the IMate-Jasjam. Being Windows Mobile, it will have more or less the same software support as the Symbian platform I am familiar with, and all I really miss out on is the GPS and media features, which, well, are there for flash and not going to be big features for me after all. New Years will be a quiet one this year...between on-call and lack of inclination, a night in will be relaxing before heading back to work :). Weather permitting, I will have an excuse to get the telescope out :) | | Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 | | 10:03 am |
| | Monday, September 11th, 2006 | | 8:28 am |
Not sure if I should be pleased or not... Another week, another weight-in. I'm not doing a terribly good job of shedding kilos laterly though! This week's excuse......SITE VISIT! I'll fill in the details on another post. I have been too slack to write anything about it till now. The summary is that I have been in bustling Mount Magnet, 560k's NE of here, after being informed at very short notice. I eat like a pig on site as a general rule, and I even managed to sneak in some Nando's and Chinese takeaway on the weekend. Ok...this week for sure!!! | | Monday, September 4th, 2006 | | 8:32 am |
BAH! Didn't really devote myself to this week's weight losses and it shows consequently. Gotta lay off the crap food on Friday, and the double dose of Nandos, while extremely nice, is a killer. And the cookies....oooooh the cookies. They keep respawning in the kitchen in all their mapel'y carob goodness. | | Monday, August 28th, 2006 | | 8:12 am |
Oops Big eatin on the weekend has bumped me back up again....doh! Ahh well....it is probably only temporary, and I promise to myself that I will behave this week. Meanwhile, I am in pain. Not too bad mind you. I have been in the City 2 Surf which I walk every year. 12km from town to beach. No blisters this year like I normally get....I think the strategic bandaids had something to do with that. Sore hips as always though, but the muscles themselves are in good shape. The pool walks have been good for me this year. I make no excuses for my gammy hips...I'm a swimmer, not a walker :). Meanwhile, new RAM arrives for the PC today. Very excited. I think I figured out the problem with the old stuff too. RAM required 2V, motherboard supports only 1.8V. It's not something that is usually a problem, so the voltages aren't prominently displayed under normal circumastances. Just that the OEM motherboard I bought is probably somewhat rare in only supporting the one voltage. Checking my new stuff reveals that it does indeed go down to 1.8V. I feel a bit better having found this out, and will not be dreading some random crash months down the track. | | Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 | | 9:27 pm |
Coo! Excepting the Flash who I don't know a lot about, that's neat! :) I like that Iron Man is up there too!
Your results:
You are Superman
| Superman |
| 70% |
| Spider-Man |
| 70% |
| The Flash |
| 70% |
| Iron Man |
| 70% |
| Supergirl |
| 68% |
| Robin |
| 67% |
| Hulk |
| 65% |
| Green Lantern |
| 55% |
| Wonder Woman |
| 43% |
| Batman |
| 40% |
| Catwoman |
| 40% |
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You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.
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Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...
| | Monday, August 21st, 2006 | | 8:44 am |
Greetings from the other side! Ok, 2 weeks gone with no update till now. What's up? Better ask, what's down... And that was my PC. Once again it decided to make a spectacular nosedive down lockup canyon. Harddisk again it seemed. Every since I went serial ATA things have not been quite right. A very infrequent pause on harddisk access would sometimes corrupt the registry forcing me to reformat and start over. The third time was enough for me and I left the thing off for a week while I aquired a new motherboard (I suspect the disk itself was ok, and that the motherboard SATA controller was to blame). I really have had it up to here *gestures upwards* with every Athlon64 motherboard I have gotten for that chip and decided that enough was enough. Anyway, as of now I am back to a functional work platform to be able to make posts again, so here I am. There were a few setbacks, and a couple yet to tackle though. Firstly was that they don't make motherboards for my old CPU anymore. They also don't make motherboards that are compatible with my old RAM, or graphics card.....ow, this is expensive sounding. The final list of parts is as follows. Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 (2.4GHz Dual Core) CPU Intel 965LT Motherboard (Bare Bones full ATX) 2Gb OCZ DDR2800 RAM 5-5-5-10 XFX 7900GT VIVO Graphics (520MHz/1.5GHz) You can picture my excitement! Cept the CPU's are impossible to come by in Australia at the moment. After a week, I found a shop in Melbourne who had a few left and had it shipped over to join the rest of the parts acquired that previous weekend from local shops and other online places. Cept it kept crashing befor ei could install Windows. Hmm. LOTS of experimentation with pulling bits out and trying RAM combos pointed me towards it either being a RAM or a power issue. The new MB was an ATXV2.2 board with a 24 pin power connector rather than the 20 pin one on my old power supply. Damn...the manual said that I could use the old type of power supply with it and just ignore the pins. Hmmmmmm. Went out and bought a new up-to-date Power supply just to be sure, and the cheapest stick of RAM I could find. Antec HENeo 500W modular Power Supply 512Mb Veritech (wee) DDR2533 RAM Swapping in the RAM and BINGO, all systems are go. Havent had an issue since. Power Supply is just a bonus, but I install it anyway, if only for a cable management and future stability reason. Its rated at 50W less than my old one, but that will make a nice spare in any case. So at the moment, I have all my core applications and games loaded after a weekend of furious installation. I am limping along on 512Mb of RAM, but will arange for exchanges with WORKING stuff today...unfortunately the shop is in Sydney. When I get working stuff I will try to offload the spare RAM somewhere. Anyone in need of a cheap stick of DDR2? Oh, btw. Even hampered by low and underspeed RAM as it is atm, it is FAST. Running SuperPi and calculating Pi to 8 million decimal places can be done on a single core in 4 minutes 48 seconds. My old 2Ghz Athlon 64 managed the same feat in 7 minutes 33 seconds when spectacularly overclocked, and about 10 seconds slower again when in day-to-day mode. To think that there an entire other CPU waiting idly in the wings makes me positively *image censored*. | | Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 | | 8:10 pm |
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| | Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 | | 9:45 pm |
How many Pastafarians do we have out there?
May you be blessed by his noodly appendage. | | Monday, August 7th, 2006 | | 8:27 am |
Must have been an anomoly.. Well, this week I am back down, but who knows why. I must have been reading unusually high last week, because this weekend I have made a hog of myself. All good fun though.....LAN's were had, GW was played, and missions completed :) Should have gotten more sleep though...I think I will atempt to take this week VERY easily at work ;). | | Monday, July 24th, 2006 | | 8:32 am |
Entirely the wrong way! Poo. Another 0.2kg up. At least I think I know where I went wrong this week. It's hard to avoid a few celebratory meals/drinks when they are thoroughly deserved and appropriate though :). | | Monday, July 17th, 2006 | | 8:25 am |
Come in.... Bugger. Up quite a bit again from the week before. To be expected though. Creatures and family lunches on the weekend, and a general feeling of fullness all week. I had a couple of "quick" lunches this week that I probably shouldn't have as well. Back on the horse!! | | Thursday, July 13th, 2006 | | 8:45 pm |
Too good not to share
The scene:
Two scientists in a lab, and one says to the other:
"I've wanted to do the two-slit experiment for years, but my wife won't let me!"
To which the reply was:
"Good luck with that. Try explaining to her afterwards that you couldn't tellwhich slit you came through. You'll be sleeping next to the particle colliderfor a month."
Bwhaha. What entanled webs we weave! |
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