11 Apr 2001 » life Need a recharge. I’m getting up progressively later, and soon I’ll be getting up tomorrow. This is not good. I have a supposedly 8.30 – 5.30 pm job, so getting to work for 1 pm is not a good thing. I’m going back to Melbourne for Easter. Hopefully, this will…
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Advogato – thoughts on Brisbane
28 Mar 2001 (updated 1 Apr 2001) » jschaum: life in Brisbane As anyone from Brisbane will tell you, thers is no life in Brisbane. 🙂 However, it is a great place to work, and it’s not far from Sydney (about an hour’s flight), and two and a bit from Melbourne. Melbourne is fantastic; lots…
Advogato – PPro resurrected
27 Mar 2001 (updated 28 Mar 2001) » work nearly got accosted by an overly amorous children’s charity logo on my way in. The person inside seems to prefer hugging cute women (of which there are many in my North Sydney client’s building lobby). hackery Got my dual PPro back on its feet last night…
Advogato – XP becomes my main OS
21 Mar 2001 (updated 27 Mar 2001) » der diary Please forgive me, for I have sinned. I haven’t posted for more nearly two weeks. netbsd Working on bugs. I’m sick of my Alpha not being as good as my dual PPro running NetBSD, so I’m installing -current and the latest Xfree86 cvs in an…
Advogato – auDA and XFree86
14 Mar 2001 » Skud: Darwin’s Radio Is by Greg Bear. I recommend all of you go to your nearest bookshop and obtain said book. It’s more about social issues than evolution or mutation. Excellent use of the science as detective genre. Bear is my $DEITY, except when Mr Banks pops out another one. Then…
Advogato – 9 March 2001
9 Mar 2001 » work Got the new Dell laptop today. besides weird key placements (I’m hitting all sorts of keys), the thing is good. Learning why they bother with a battery LED is my first priority, and figuring out how I can disable the nipple and its two little nipple buttons in favor of…
Advogato – 7 March 2001
7 Mar 2001 » hackery: Story of CRT suckage! Be amazed! So here I am, sitting at my PC last night trying to port Luke’s ftp client to Win32. It uses a lot of Unixisms, including signals (to emulate overlapped I/O and to do basic threading), pipes (popen), fork, termios/termcap, lots of directory stuff, and…
Advogato – 4 March 2001
4 Mar 2001 (updated 4 Mar 2001) » hackery, at last My friend Luke, is the author of luk emftp, a portable ftp client based upon the original BSD ftp client, and is now used by default in Suse, NetBSD and a few other platforms. It is easily the best CLI-based ftp client, and I’ve…
Advogato – 2 March 2001
2 Mar 2001 » deekayen: Living in the past Would the framers of the 1787 Constitution be looking back at the luminaries of the 1560’s for inspiration for their country? No. They were framing the constitution around new(ish) ideas that the eminent contemporary people (well, men) of the time liked, a sentiment that essentially can…
Advogato – 20 February 2001
20 Feb 2001 (updated 20 Feb 2001) » washing cats: like herding just more painful dirtyrat, mixing Meebles and water forms an emulsion, albeit one that fights back with very sharp claws and teeth, and he doesn’t take prisoners. But from time to time, Meebles sleeps under Ang’s (old) car, and gets oil on his…