All the best

Today the final set of people from the black day leave. Goodbye Trev, Scotty, Glen and Eunice! You were some of the best people to work with, both technically and as part of a team. All the best with Sarugo - securing your digital memories.

tech/misc | 28 Sep 2005 | #

LCA2006: paper judging just about complete

I just finished judging papers for linux.conf.au 2006 last night, which really meant transcribing my results into the system and double checking the scores.

Again we have a great range of familiar faces presenting new stuff, and a lot of new faces too. LCA2006 should again be a nice eclectic mix of warm and fuzzy open-source goodness and cool fun - the best conference mix on the planet!

Which of course brings us to you. The excitement is building in the community, the logistics are well at hand, the speakers are almost decided and announced, but are you going to be there? If you haven't been yet, it's time to change that.

linux.conf.au 2006. Dunedin, New Zealand. 23rd - 28th January 2006

tech/linux-australia/lca2006 | 28 Sep 2005 | #

Some Advantages

There are some advantages to having your own server on-line.

tech/misc | 23 Sep 2005 | #

Plug for booq

My mother-in-law just purchased a 14" iBook, and she wanted a Booq laptop sleeve to fit. Of course the 3 Australian distributors of the product don't sell this model in Australia, so it had to be a direct order to the US of A. Grumble.

So I ordered the sleeve from the USA direct from Booq (at exorbitant shipping cost), but they made an error in shipping by sending me the Vyper M (for 15" PowerBook) instead of the Vyper XM (for 14" iBook). Grumble grumble grumble. But they redeemed themselves by shipping me the right model as soon as I reported the error - no questions asked, no additional cost to me. Their response was the best I've had when purchasing something from overseas over the 'net and something going wrong.

Great customer service Booq! - and from the look on my mother-in-law's face, excellent product!

tech/misc | 19 Sep 2005 | #

LinuxSA September 2005 - Introduction to TYPO3

  Hi all,
  
  Time for the LinuxSA September Meeting announcement (it's Tuesday
  week).  This month we have a special guest presenter from Germany...

  The usual details:

    When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
            Tuesday, 20th September, 2005
    Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
            of South Australia (SSABSA)
            Boardroom (1st floor)
            60 Greenhill Road
            Wayville SA
    Cost:   FREE
    Who:    Anyone and everyone.
            No pre-registration necessary.

  Presentation:

    Ingmar Schlecht will be giving an introductory talk on TYPO3
    (http://www.typo3.com/ and http://www.typo3.org/), an
    enterprise-quality Open Source content management system.  Ingmar is
    a TYPO3 developer from Germany, working in Australia for a couple of
    months.

  Pizza:

    After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
    Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

  For more information:

    Email:        organisers@linuxsa.org.au
    Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
    Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
    IRC:          #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net

tech/LinuxSA | 12 Sep 2005 | #

IP Address parsing weirdness

Hmmm, I wouldn't have expected this:

    string str = "2.10";
    if (null != System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(str))
    {
        System.Console.WriteLine("This is an IP address");
    }
    else
    {
        System.Console.WriteLine("This is NOT an IP address");
    }

Can you guess what is printed? I didn't know you could abbreviate IPv4 addresses. Can anyone point me to an RFC that justifies this weirdness?

Update: Well, I'll be a suck egg mule. See your local copy of inet(3N).

tech/code/C-Sharp | 07 Sep 2005 | #

Houseboat 2005

Spent last weekend travelling from Murray Bridge to Mannum via houseboat. Eat. Sleep. Play cards. Rest. A wonderful weekend.

social | 03 Sep 2005 | #