I love it when, almost by chance, I find something new. I decided yesterday to look at FLOSS-based router distributions. I've been using IPCop for a while, as an easy way to create a VPN to another location. Unfortunately, IPCop failed my latest requirement: 802.1Q VLAN support. So I went surfing and found an absolute … Continue reading Zeroshell: network services distro
Author: Vic Cross
Okay, I'm sure it's not really like that. I'm ashamed to admit this one bit me, though: ORDB, which 16 months ago called it quits but has still been online and more-or-less functional, decided last week to false-positive all queries (a mailing list thread on the issue can be seen here. Harsh, but fair--I do … Continue reading ORDB: “If I go down, I’ll bring you down with me”
Bad things don't always come in threes. For my MythTV setup, four bad things all happened at once. First was that the governments of the Australian states that run Daylight Savings Time (DST) decided to jump on the energy-saving bandwagon and change the end-time for DST this year. Second was that the OzTivo folks changed … Continue reading MythTV fun and games
Just wended my way through another SLES 10 install on s390x. It's b0rked though, and I'll probably have to redo it. I had some kind of I/O error during the install which seems to have resulted in a couple of the filesystems being remounted read-only. Not too much trouble you'd think...Some things aren't starting because … Continue reading SLES, you make it so hard to like you
I've been trying to solve a problem at work for a few weeks now -- one of those tricky "it's only software so it shouldn't be this hard" sort-of problems for which you know the solution is just a matter of putting the right bits and pieces together. At work, I'm more-or-less forced into using … Continue reading Are we letting Microsoft define our industry?
Well it's official now -- or at least, my current boss announced it to the team, so that more-or-less makes it official. 🙂 I will be starting a new job in about a month's time -- still at the same shop, but no longer in Services. I'll be with the team that does technical pre-sales … Continue reading New job
I know I'm going to cop a beating on the Planet for this post, but here goes... For a long time I ran a desktop system built on Gentoo Linux. A while back I tried Ubuntu, and I've been running that as my desktop ever since. Every now and then, though, I feel an inclination … Continue reading Thinking of a Gentoo desktop
Our not-so-little guy turned four today! He had a McDonalds party on Saturday, with a few of his best mates from day-care in attendance. Today he took a cake to day-care for everyone to share (and he had great fun taking it around the playground to show everyone when he arrived!). The only low point … Continue reading Happy Birthday Nicholas!
"Once upon a time, in a land far from here, there was a clothing factory. One part of this clothing factory made uniforms. The uniforms came in many shapes and sizes: some were sporting team outfits, some were "corporate wardrobe", others were emergency services uniforms... but they all looked alike. Few of the people working … Continue reading A Fractured Fable, Part One
I have to say that over the last couple of years I have only had good dealings with Telstra. Ironically though, the most recent example is about the only service I have with them, and they want to take it away. You see ISDN is outdated technology that is holding Telstra back from delivering new … Continue reading Telstra service
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