11 Oct 2000 (updated 11 Oct 2000) » stupidity, Network Solutions-style Say hello to “der Stock, Andrew van”. Network Solutions have plenty to answer for. I just want to update my NIC handle and put in the address I actually live at in my record, and whilst I’m at it, change my e-mail address to…
Author: vanderaj
Advogato – 7 October 2000
7 Oct 2000 » I have paid homage to the espresso gods. I pumped my first short black on my own machine (I’ve used other people’s including my brother’s baby Gaggia), and it tastes fine! 🙂 The Novo comes with a frother, which will not get much use, I’d imagine. The only aggravating thing is…
Advogato 6 October 2000
6 Oct 2000 » life Bought Baldurs Gate II. There goes what remained of my spare time. auDA continues to soak time. eu* is remarkably monopolistic. SAGE-AU is giving me connipitions. However, we’re finally kicking goals! The bad news is that I need to get my friend Luke to recommit to being a board member….
Advogato – 25 September 2000
25 Sep 2000 » Netizen I feel sad for Kirrily (Skud) to have her company go down the gurglers. That’s pretty damn shitty. I remember when Kirrily was running rainbow.net.au (IIRC) out of her garage in a northern Melbourne suburb. Well, at least it sounds as she’s going to have some fun somewhere else. cla’s…
Advogato – Buying a new Dell over the Internet
14 Sep 2000 » Today I conducted the largest single transaction I’ve ever done over the net – buying a new Dell Inspiron 4100 via the Dell web site. So in a few weeks, I’ll have a nice shiny Dell sitting at home to replace my aging HP XU 6/200 dual PPro 200 and its…
Advogato – 11 September 2000
11 Sep 2000 » Been meaning to post. Honest. Been very very busy. Went to Hobart to present the Win2K Security tutorial to what might have been a very hostile audience (it was run by the Australian Unix User’s Group- Tasmania and SAGE-Tas coordinator.) However, 33 people turned out, and they were cool. I’ll put…
Advogato – 17″ Monitor Dead
18 Aug 2000 » Not much happening. My 17″ monitor is still dead. Long live the 17″ monitor.
Advogato – 11 August 2000
11 Aug 2000 » hackery Not much happening – I want to work on a project management tool for KDE (I can’t wait for C++ wrappers for Gnome and/or much better IDL support that hides the C braindeath that passes for emulating C++ (badly)). However, we got infected by a Java zealot as developer #3….
Advogato – 27 July 2000
27 Jul 2000 » Opened my second SourceForge project today. I’m working on the secret project architecture. As soon as I have the High Level Architecture and Overview done, and as soon as the fantastic SF people approve my new project (pretty please!), I’ll post more details. I’m going to undertake a social experiment with…
Advogato – 20 July 2000
20 Jul 2000 » Went to the Compaq GS series launch today. Big Iron. mmmm. 1-32 processors today, 1-48 processors soon. Kicks ass. Made contact with Compaq Australia to try and get some eval kit to test multiple bus alpha boxes. life Watching Springer. A guy just grotted a nose booger on the show –…