Mandatory Uniform

So Leon, is there a mandatory uniform? Perhaps a cursed -3 amulet of blindness? :-)

/life | 25 Jul 2006 | #

Implantable RFIDs not fool-proof

Who wants to become Linux Australia's president for a day? :-) Engadget is reporting that implantable RFIDs are quite easy to clone, making it quite easy to steal someone's identify.

So Jon, the good news is that no-one will cut your arm off - instead they'll just scan you from afar ;-)

/tech/misc | 25 Jul 2006 | #

Planet Linux Australia upgrade

We interrupt this blog feed to announce that Planet Linux Australia has been successfully upgraded to a new version of Planet.

An unnamed source at Linux Australia's Planet team reports that the reasons behind the upgrade are World Peace and decent Atom support.

Returning you now to your regular program...

/tech/linux-australia | 22 Jul 2006 | #

Roboscoble does PlanetPlanet

Microsoft's RoboScoble (aka http://msreadr.com/), uses PlanetPlanet as an aggregator, running on FreeBSD and Apache.

Huh?

/tech/windows | 17 Jul 2006 | #

LinuxSA July 2006 - Anycast DNS servers

  Hi all,

  Time for the LinuxSA July Meeting reminder...

  The usual details:

   When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
           Tuesday, 18th July, 2006
   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:

   Glen Turner, Network Engineer for AARNet, and Kim Hawtin from the
   University of Adelaide will be giving a presentation on the reasons
   and configuration of anycast DNS servers.

   Janet Hawtin and perhaps others involved in Software Freedom Day
   will give a brief presentation on what's happening with SFD this
   year.

  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 | 17 Jul 2006 | #

A small update on work

In 7 months we've made 13 formal releases of our software - this morning we sat down and looked back at this busy year to date. That's 3 product lines out of the same source tree - #ifdef'd and managed by ClearCase config specs, each product release interleaved as customer deadlines dictated. All of the code "fagan" inspected, and manually tested (don't get me started on manual testing). Soon you'll be able to buy the results of our blood, sweat and tears - boxed and shrunk-wrapped.

So sitting here on a Friday night, thinking about what we've achieved, I have to say that I'm pretty happy with the team. We've achieved a lot. We've pushed the boundaries, and now we're looking to push them even more - hopefully a new product line coming out the successes of what has been achieved (*sigh* more ClearCase branching :-) using different hardware, adding new cool functionality to the product line, and being able to support more networks.

Besides happy, I'm also exhausted. Holidays aren't far away, and I'm looking forward to both re'ing and laxing.

/tech/code | 14 Jul 2006 | #