20 Nov 2000 » Don’t try this at home I passed my Win2K MCP upgrade exam (070-240) this morning. I thought it was a one hour exam. It turned out to be four one hour exams. Whoops 🙂 Don’t try this exam without the same level of preparedness as myself: I’ve been using NT 5.0…
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Advogato – 19 November 2000
19 Nov 2000 » certify me Have Win2K upgrade 070-240 MCSE exam Tuesday morning first thing. Have beer-n-babes tonight. Study or beer. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeer. Baaabes. Study. I think you can see which will win. work Have too much work on at work. I’m presenting a Win2K security tutorial on Wednesday morning and I need to install…
Advogato – 12 November 2000
12 Nov 2000 (updated 12 Nov 2000) » life Flew to Melbourne for a wedding. Travelled lightly – no baggage whatsoever. Mum freaked out about that. Went shopping, bought a new suit and overcoat. Nice overcoat. Shame I live in Sydney where I will be able to wear it due to cold weather conditions about…
Advogato – 9 November 2000
9 Nov 2000 » work Hint to business types negotiating contracts to get someone else to do your IT work: security is important. Get advice, talk to lawyer types, include it in the contract or you will get attacked, and you will lose money. hackery Submitted a late entry for linux.conf.au. I’ll see if I’m…
Advogato – 7 November 2000
7 Nov 2000 (updated 7 Nov 2000) » rachel: Australia One of the reasons I’ll probably never bother going overseas to work is that I have an unbelievably good lifestyle that is appreciably better than some of my friends who live in San Francisco (or the wider Bay area) and earn at least twice as…
Advogato – 6 November 2000
6 Nov 2000 » hackery Fired up an Archimedes emulator. Ah, the joys of * commands and Elite for the Archimedes. Such a cute OS. eliot: weather in Australia The weather in Australia is different depending where you go. For example, in Sydney at the moment, it’s a glorious spring day, the late afternoon sun…
Advogato – IPv6
5 Nov 2000 » schoen: IPv6 There are various IPv6 only services that provide a 6-to-4 gateway at their edge. This is how me and my flatmate intend to run our internal network once IPv6 routing is in place on his WaveLAN to 100BaseT gateway is in place. IPv6 is about transition and seamless co-existance….
Advogato – More IPv6 Fun
3 Nov 2000 (updated 3 Nov 2000) » Making firewall and networking vendors nervous is fun. I have been demanding IPv6 consistently from them for the last few months. I work at one of Australia’s largest telcos, and through them, we’re in a position to break the chicken/egg IPv6 cycle. Cycle: Networking vendors have no…
Advogato – 30th Birthday
24 Oct 2000 » life Turned 30. World didn’t end. My actual b’day party is this coming Saturday in Melbourne. So my friends in Sydney are playing poker at my place, and feeding the cats whilst I am away. Went to our company conference at the Gold Coast, staying at the casino there. Had a…
Advogato – fscking big pipes and security architecture
15 Oct 2000 » hackery I got Simon’s XFree86 patches. I was so happy once I had them. I am still cutting new ground, as his alpha server (which works) is statically linked. The patches slot in nicely to the current CVS, with one minor tweak and a bit of work. The dynamic loader stuff…