Monthly Archives: May 2003

meeting this weekend

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Well, we’re heading towards our (second) face2face committee meeting. The first was at Linux.Conf.Au 2003 (just after we were elected).

We’re making progress and are in good spirits. Both privately and publicly we’re happy at where we are. True, we could be further, but considering our collective schedules and the fact that this is volunteer work, it’s pretty cool.

We’ve decided to take the sponsorship proposal by Kim for LinMagAU to the next level. I don’t forsee anything being rejected. This is a pretty cool project that’s nice and community oriented. Let’s face it, community is a HUGE part of open source and a part we all just love.

Information Security Drinking game

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Finish your drink when the lecturer says:
– “15 year old Canadian”
– “Mafia Boy”
– “Microsoft”
– anything about a 1×1 image

Take a drink when:
– There is a spelling mistake in the notes
– When you can read one of the words written on the board
– any mention of “doubleclick.com” is made

rules for a better web

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1) Web Browsers refuse to render non standards compliant sites
2) SVG is used for all applicable images.
3) META tags are used properly
4) Comic Sans MS is deleted from all computers, everywhere
5) Background music becomes impossible
6) ban the plugins

new ipods

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well, there’s new ipods out. i still want one, but haven’t yet justified spending a few hundred (read MANY hundred) dollars on what is a music player. A portable cool one at that, but it is just a beefier version of my current mp3 player…

if the ipod had a recording capability (that was properly in there, not a seemingly hidden feature as in the new ones) then i may be more inclined to get one – recording lectures/talks etc would be really cool then…. although, i could just do that with my laptop now…. urgh.

although bootlegging with an ipod would be rather cool.

computing deltas for insert operations

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snapshot like system for in-progress transactions, when committing, search for common substrings in blocks and the offsets of these (possibly indicating an insert operation) and on a per-block basis create a “shift N spaces” entry in the delta fork of the object