25 Jan 2001 » hackery not much happening. Laptop is getting better. mirwin: Keep up the drugs, good buddy. I’m not sure what you’re on, but I want a couple of kg sent my way. 🙂
Author: vanderaj
Advogato – 22 January 2001
22 Jan 2001 (updated 22 Jan 2001) » life jerry! jerry! jerrrrrrry! work Trying out RH 7.0 on Mr laptop. Work provides me with a Citrix session, so basically I’ll install the Citrix client on Linux and see where we go from there. Problems noted so far: I have a USB mouse. RH has a…
Advogato – LCA Speakers BBQ
[ This is the progenitor of the Speaker’s Dinner at LCA. Such humble beginnings! – ajv 190213 ] 21 Jan 2001 (updated 21 Jan 2001) » LCA speaker’s BBQ Had a great time organising this, managed to get a goodly percentage of the open source mavens in one place eating all the same food under…
Advogato – Linux.conf.au
LCA Having a ball. Finally met a few people who I had e-mailed over the years, and someone whom I respect believed I was a Linux guru. A little bit wrong on that one. 🙂 Finally met Alan and Telsa. Unbelievably nice people. It must be frustrating going to places where everyone sorta worships you,…
Advogato – 13 January 2001
13 Jan 2001 » the blue pill or the red pill? Have a cold. It’s the middle of quite a balmy summer. This is wrong. I have pills that help suppress all but the most determined coughs and sniffles. But the question remains, which color to take? lca: drinking update #1 Only a few of…
Advogato – Melbourne trip planning
4 Jan 2001 » life Just got back from a midnight drive to the Great Ocean Road and back, mostly to charge my mobile phone, partially to see my friend Margaret for the last time and partially as a method of politely disentangling myself from a set of friends I had been with all day*….
Advogato – 1 January 2001
1 Jan 2001 (updated 1 Jan 2001) » life It’s great not using computers for days at a time. I’ve managed to log on and check my mail so irregularly, that it’s started to annoy some of my friends who seem to expect near instant response. house cleaning I’ve archived 140 MB of e-mail from…
Advogato – 26 December 2000
26 Dec 2000 (updated 26 Dec 2000) » schoen: HHGTG Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in Java. Enjoy poetry only works in certain places. family I think my mum is losing it. People shouldn’t retire unless they have something to do. Not good. hackery Paper is being worked upon. Very late, 6 pages and…
Advogato – On tragedies
21 Dec 2000 » unhappy families Last Sunday, my cousin’s wife of five weeks, Sang, was riding her motorbike around a double bend, and didn’t make it around the second one. Gordon, my cousin, and the other rider did, but it was too late. That tragedy was compounded by the fact that I didn’t even…
Advogato – 16 Dec 2000
16 Dec 2000 » hackery Not enough time. Need 30-40 hour days. I have nearly hacked WinVNC to use a far more secure API (LsaStorePrivateData() if you’re interested) rather than stashing passwords in the registry. But due to aforesaid lack of time, I don’t have time to finish this, and the patches I posted to…