02 Nov 2005
<erno> hm. I’ve lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can’t figure out where in my apartment it is.
I always thought that bash.org quote was fabricated until just now. I literally lost my router. It was responding to ping, it worked completely (I was using the web inteface), but I had no idea where it was. I looked in the usual place and it was gone!
So I rebooted my cable modem instead (the BigPond connection was “there”, just not working. Happens once every month or two.), went to the web interface and reconnected, and all was good.
I think it might have fallen somewhere underneath our Commander PBX, but I’d need to move a not-insubstantial desk full of cables and various IT gear, and risk disconnecting some of the 12 or so network connected devices, in order to see it for sure. Meanwhile, it’s out of sight and working perfectly!
Working perfectly, that is, as a basic Internet gateway. If we were using its horrible unsecurable (you can do MAC based auth, but only if you’re prepared to enter the MAC addresses of LAN devices, too. I’m not. It’s also impossible just to grant wireless Internet access and block off the LAN — I’d be perfectly happy leaving the AP wide open if I could do that, because bandwidth should be free. Yeah, whatever, I’m a ‘net commie.) wireless, I imagine reception would be rather poor in that RFI nest! (Assuming it’s where I think it is)
02 Nov 2005
Why don’t we fill the hole with the current state goverment?! Would save waiting until 2007!
From an SMH blog comment. I can’t wait for the next election!
The venerable mum/dad lab/lib metaphor (elucidated in this piece — search for “Labor is mum, the Coalition is dad” — and shamelessly repeated by the SMH many times since) is wearing thinner and thinner in NSW, as Labor repeatedly shows itself to be comprehensively incompetent in both the realm of social welfare and “hard” issues such as keeping contactors in line and maintaining order, etc. And yes, before anyone jumps up and down about it, it is playing on gender stereotypes, but it’s just a convenient metaphor. So get over it.
01 Nov 2005
Sit down and argue about the semantics and purpose of “propaganda” for eight pages. Deftly avoid the question and hope they don’t realise no judgement has been made. That whole expectation is so un-academic, anyway.
*laughs at folly of HSC Modern History outcomes*
Meanwhile, Tori has finished her HSC as of ~12.30 today. I hate you I hate you I hate you! Well… no, I really don’t, but you know that so it’s okay. :) Congrats!
01 Nov 2005
Just me playing with Inkscape, nothing in particular got burnt in the making of this image.
The image links to a larger PNG of the same.
You can also get its Inkscape SVG source file… it probably won’t open in certain other editors — specifically Illustrator (I say this because it’s been tried before, though not with this particular file).
The advantage of this being an SVG is you can blow it up to whatever resolution you want, get a large format digital printer, and stick it on the side of your fully-sick car, if you so desired. Or, you could just view it on your computer screen!
01 Nov 2005
This is a seriously cool program. Sure, it’s just a frontend to mplayer/mencoder, but it’s so easy! Having said that, I’m still not game to touch more than half the options, but whatever :P I now no longer need to pull out my Coldplay Live 2003 DVD to watch tracks on it :D
(I’d ripped it before, but couldn’t figure out how to do individual Chapters as separate files, so the resulting file was the whole DVD)
And yes, this program is probably illegal in Australia, as in the US. But then so are iPods prior to iTMS.
