When I started at the railway in 1995, the fellow from the Operations area that took me on the tour of the data centre was proudly boasting of the new disk subsystem they had just installed for the mainframe. "This new subsystem gives us almost half a terabyte of DASD," he beamed, to the delight and … Continue reading Hard drives and history
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The install instructions for the Shepherd TV guide data grabber say that "Some grabbers work faster/better if they can operate using The Onion Router (tor)". Hmm. Riiight. I can think of an alternate wording, but as this is a public blog I'll keep it to myself. 🙂
I'm still having a good time with MythTV here... The Knoppmyth box I've been running has been pretty-much rock-solid. My plan to consolidate MythTV onto the Asterisk server just got a healthy kick-along too, with an announcement that the bogus DViCO card I bought last year finally has Linux driver support. Bad news came a couple of days … Continue reading MythTV ups and downs
No I did not buy an Apple TV -- but seeing them on the shelves at the local Hardly Normal has got me thinking about the dilemma-in-the-making that is my media centre dream. It all comes down to bandwidth, or lack of it to be specific. Of the two locations at the Crossed Wires campus that ideally … Continue reading My media and Apple TV
I realised the other day, after restarting Samba on the main server for the umpteenth time to clear about 800 nmbd processes that were overrunning it, that I barely use Samba any more. It dawned on me that I have an almost entirely Microsoft-free household, and that there's no need for me to run Samba at … Continue reading Whither Samba?
To anyone who might have looked at the photo gallery at some time, it has moved! You'll now find it at http://veejoe.net/gallery. Sorry for any trouble! It also hasn't been updated for a while, but this will be changing as well.The newer version of the software I'm using has RSS support, so if you want to stay up … Continue reading Photo gallery moved
Okay, not computer hardware, but I don't have a category for trains (hmm, might have to fix that...). News from France early this month that the TGV set a new rail speed record of 574.8 kph!Of course some anti-Francophiles just have to mention that they couldn't break the overall speed record for a train, which still … Continue reading Go TGV Go
Following-on from a discussion on the Linux Australia mailing list, Melissa Draper has commented on her blog on the effectiveness of WoM (word-of-mouth) as a marketing technique for Linux. She raises Apple as a counterpoint to the "WoM is worthless" argument; Apple having spent (possibly) billions of traditional marketing dollars on Macintosh to achieve roughly the … Continue reading Word-of-Mouth for Linux marketing?
LIVE from Dicky Beach, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, it's the Crossed Wires Holiday Show! Jokes aside (particularly at the name of the venue, which is actually named after a shipwreck... oh dear, not getting much better is it) we're on our "summer" holiday. Caravanning on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Beautiful... well, after the heat in the van's canvas annexe... … Continue reading Holiday time
Susan and I went to a wedding yesterday -- one of Susan's cousins, who I'm sure many in the family, including her own mother, thought would never get married. The ceremony was quite formal but quite quick... Being held at St Stephen's Cathedral in the city, quite likely one of the more popular wedding venues, time … Continue reading ${DEITY} bless digital photography
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