30 Aug 2004
According to my system information page on my local machine, I’ve downloaded 1.62 GBvia my local ethernet interface in the last 11 hours and 21 minutes (not downloading flat out, that just happened to be my system uptime when I last refreshed the page).
What was I doing? No LAN traffic, that much I know. There has been one other machine on for much of today which has created noise before, but post- viral and spyware purges, this ’98 box has been squeaky clean (except for the one virus which powers it, of course).
Nah, I was downloading a couple of ISO’s from PlanetMirror, namely Mandrake 10 discs 1 and 2 — I don’t even know if I’m going to burn the images to CD, much less actually USE them on anything, but hey… that’s not what this is all about.
Some will recall a post I made previously (on the olde blog) regarding iiNet’s wonderfully bloated new quota limits for their ADSL plans… yeah… I’m still going on about that, sorry to appear pedantic… I am.
Anyway. Those two ISO images put a nice chunk in my monthly allowance, because it was starting to slip behind. You know that when the download meter starts telling you you can download 650, 700MB in a day, something has to happen… I’m just keeping up with my iiSP’s lofty expectations of their users!
“What would anyone download 12GB a month of?!” — the standing joke goes, “That’s a lot of Linux ISO’s”… it sure is.
29 Aug 2004
What’s going on?…
29 Aug 2004
I’ve had a cold for the last few days, which is impeding life and normal activity in general. A group of people from church were having a “cook-off” over two weeks, with the girls cooking for the guys last Friday, and the guys doing the same the following week… Hehe, someone will have to fill me in as to what standard of cooking is expected of us next week (assuming I don’t die/stop breathing/something between now and then)!
Marcello informs me that he was really impressed with the amount of effort they put in, which can only leave me a bit worried. :P We’ll come up with something killer… there’s still a whole five days between now and next Friday!
I’m missing church this evening, too, which is never great… less so seeing it’s Al Radloff’s third last week at ESM, before heading North-ish to the Gold Coast. I’m told that this place is even further North than Tori’s house, but this rumour remains unconfirmed. ;)
29 Aug 2004
Wow. That’s… possibly the first time I’ve seen it do that! I went to open a file, wp-comments-reply.php, and it just froze. Kill process, rinse, repeat. Crashes again. Re-open, open another file. No problems. Open wp-comments-reply.php.
Crashes, again.
Doh! At least the file I was actually trying to edit opened okay… you can now post ordered and un-ordered lists in comments if you feel so inclined :P … I know I sometimes do!
Later…
I just re-read the title of this post and burst out laughing. Just for the record, Quanta is an editing application, and not an Australian airline.
28 Aug 2004
After briefly flirting with Daring Fireball’s Markdown, I have since abandoned the tool for several reasons. Firstly, I’m convined that (this version of) WordPress’ implementation of it sucks… simply because code that works perfectly well on the Dingus page fails in a most spectacular fashion when applied locally.
Yeah. So that was sufficiently disappointing. I’m inclined to blame WordPress over the utility itself, because according to the WordPress Plugins page, it was written in Perl, translated to PHP, and then again modified for inclusion in WordPress. It’s just like programming Chinese Whispers, really.
What’s more, is it added a large-ish time to my page generation, which just won’t do, considering the fact that I’m trying to prove a point over here!
Then, of course, there is the complication of trying to learn a new markup (or down) language, and making sure this doesn’t interfere with my use of real HTML. I believe the documentation when it says that it won’t, but the fact that WordPress’ implementation of it seems to be so broken causes the rising of eyebrows.
It looks relatively fixable with little amounts of effort, but (yes, there always is one, isn’t there?) I’d imagine that this would either have been resolved or abandoned for the 1.3 build of WordPress (still in development and testing) — I’m running 1.2 this part of the world.