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When we left our hero, he was waiting valiantly for the arrival of his new UPS...  🙂  The UPS arrived (eventually, after an order placement mixup at Powerfirm's fulfilment provider) and was duly ignored for a day or so (I do have to work for a living).  When I got a few moments to strap together, I set … Continue reading SmartUPS 2200 Part Deux

My old UPS, a SmartUPS 1400RM, threw a battery recently.  It didn't complain about battery failure, it just wouldn't hold charge and couldn't carry a load.  With the quality of the power we get here, combined with the sensitivity of the UPS, it meant that my server and network were dropping out on a very regular basis … Continue reading SmartUPS 2200

Having grown up on the north side of Brisbane, I became familiar with the narrow (relatively speaking) roads and often convoluted ways of getting from place to place there.  In comparison to the south side, dominated by Brisbane's only (well, it was in my youth) freeway, driving on the northside actually required some ability to navigate … Continue reading Time passes by…

The MythTV project I discussed in the last entry caused me to think about a couple of systems I have in use at the moment.  These systems are both based on customised "single-use" Linux distros -- one is the Trixbox system that runs the home phone system, the other is the new PVR system based on … Continue reading Going beyond “starter systems”

Santa came to Nicholas' day-care centre today.  All the Junior Kindy kids were very excited about Santa being there -- until it was their turn to sit with him!  Nicholas' reaction was (I have to say, even though it's terrible to do so) hilarious...  He was joyously watching the other kids getting their presents, but when his name … Continue reading Nicholas’ visit from Santa

I'm sure you've heard people say that they were never concerned about "whatever" until it touched their life in some way.  Our family had a first-hand reminder of that last night -- my mum was mugged last night on her way home from work.  I'm sure she would have liked a less violent way to get her … Continue reading Safety?

I had a funny problem with my Cacti installation the other day -- all the graphs were missing the last hour.  The system was doing updates correctly, but new data was being entered onto the graph at "T-minus-one-hour".The first thing I thought of was a problem caused by daylight savings (the state of Queensland doesn't observe … Continue reading Timezone in PHP

Susan and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary yesterday.  Yay for us!