Or at least the ones bought there do. In my travels to Canberra I've now bought two compact travel umbrellas and lost *both* of them within a week of purchase. Seems like an umbrella bought in Canberra really wants to stay in Canberra -- the last one lost was liberated by someone who sought to … Continue reading Umbrellas like Canberra
Category: Soapbox
A category that contains my rants about things!
I really don't use Twitter much at all. It's one of those things, like Facebook, that I just signed up to more-or-less on a whim. But with all the stability and performance problems they've been having recently (and the flak they've been taking in the press, I understand) I'm hoping that they pull through. You … Continue reading Whither Twitter
If I see or hear one more reference to something being a "perfect storm" I think I'm going to be sick.
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?
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 You see ISDN is outdated technology that is holding Telstra back from delivering new … Continue reading Telstra service
It's probably been coined already, and I'm sure it's not a new realisation. Something happened at my employer recently that's made me wonder whether the old benchmark of "enterprise-grade" is really relevant any more.Our internal IM system was closed down for a while this week, and when it was restarted a number of us could … Continue reading Internet-grade
In this post only about six months ago I berated myself for buying an ATI-chipset graphics card for use in a Linux system. I titled that post "Why I probably will never buy ATI again...", as if I knew that I'd make the same mistake again. Sure enough... I had problems with my MythTV frontend playing particular … Continue reading I did it again: damn you ATI!
...and the winner is: KVM! Why? Because as you read this, some of you will be thinking I'm talking about a keyboard-video-mouse switch, while some of you will be thinking I'm talking about Linux kernel-based virtualisation (still others are probably thinking of something else... what I don't know, but I reckon I can be sure that the … Continue reading The “Technology With The Worst Name Ever” Award
I've been away from SHARE for far too long. It's really great to hear positive things about Linux on zSeries again, rather than the crap I have to put up with at home. In Australia, there is no evangelism of zSeries. There's an attitude bordering on arrogance that seems to say "we're not going to explain zSeries … Continue reading Rebooting my belief system
Crossed Wires 