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…
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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…
Advogato – talking about XFree86 4.0.2
14 Dec 2000 » hadess: Xfree86 on ppc 4.0.2 is out soonish (like dec 15 is code build day). 4.0.2 fixes a number of known PPC-isms as well as introduces a bunch of new servers and features, whilst improving the stability of the 4.0.x code base. 4.0.2 is not just a point release. I recommend…
Advogato – on resignation letters
13 Dec 2000 » pjf: going, going, gone… Paul, just in case you’re stuck, the deal with those sort of letters is: be brief – one, maybe two paragraphs of a couple of sentences each maximum do not slag anyone off or burn bridges just say “You’ve been wonderful to work for, but I need…
Advogato – got my Win2K MCSE
12 Dec 2000 » life I’m a Win2K MCSE after passing my final MCP exam. Woohoo. That last exam was Designing Network Infrastructure, which funnily enough is what I do for a living. I do network security architecture on a first-world country scale. I am currently working on a project that will re-engineer how my…
Advogato – nearly a Win2K MCSE
6 Dec 2000 » hackery Need to work on my paper for http://linux.conf.au MCSE Almost finished. Soon I’ll be a win2k MCSE. Next week is my last exam. I might even study for that one. work Top class blocking going on by a major vendor preventing me from getting on site at the data centre….
Advogato – 2 December 2000
2 Dec 2000 (updated 2 Dec 2000) » deekayen: World AIDS day Deekayen, there is no point in classifying how you got a particular disease. In South Africa, 20% of the population has HIV/AIDS. They are all not gay or junkies (which you seem to have trouble with), and they have a terminal illness. For…
Advogato – 1 December 2000
1 Dec 2000 (updated 1 Dec 2000) » hackery I have to do the following things: study for the rest of my MCSE exams write my paper for linux.conf.au work on the gtkada program that this paper references write my slides for said paper work on miscellaneous SAGE-AU stuff, like the Code of Practice and…
Advogato – Bought a PlayStation 2
29 Nov 2000 » One of the lucky 60,000 Australians to have bought a PlayStation 2. I’m going to have serious tekken thumb tomorrow. 🙂 mrorganic: agreed. Check out talk.origins. It’s very useful if you’re into combatting silliness, whilst demonstrating that we are open to new ideas as they arise. That’s what shits me about…
Advogato – 22 November 2000
22 Nov 2000 » Skud: AOSS2 I’m going to AOSS2 to do the SAGE-AU presentation. Mail me your presentation as a backup mechanism – it can come across on mr laptop. Also, I’m reasonably certain that Michael Paddon et al (ie the organisers) will look after it for you as well. work: Win2K security tute…