AUSTRALIA PRESS: Telstra To Charge More For Fixed Lines
great – I get to pay more for a service I DON’T WANT! I just want internet, not a phone line (which I aparrently have to have to get ADSL).
Howard: What the blogs are saying
I’m not a Howard fan. I think he plays politics very well – possibly better than anyone in the country (and is certainly a world contender) and I’d love to have him on my side on issues I care about. I also
I also think he’s wrong on a bunch of things (or not paying the right kind of attention to them). Some of these I think it’s possible to work on, but others are just fundamental differences.
(hrrm… some major ones there. I am quite happy though that (at least in the past) he has been active in upholding the right to choose on abortion and not giving into a certain health minister who wants to impose his moral view on the country.
This isn’t to say that there’s a feasible opposition. The Australian Labor party is a joke. Total discrace. I’m feeling like I could say that I feel that the Greens have a higher chance of winning government in the next two elections than the ALP.
Way to get depressed about the political situation in .au
Finger currently bandaged like the above. On monday night i sliced a bit of my finger off. Not too much, it’ll grow back.
downside of having an unco moment with a good sharp knife.
congratulations to chris and kelly.
Best wishes to Leon and family for a quick, speedy and complete recovery.
Just got back from going to see Augie March play at the Prince.
Went with Mike: 
They played The Keepa: 
Another funky track:
And, of course, There Is No Such Place: 
xine --keymap=lirc
Is a useful command to run. I redirected it to a file and appended an edited copy to my existing lircrc for mythtv.
I used to run irxevent, but am now using mythtv’s builtin support. I had to symlink ~/.lircrc to ~/.mythtv/lircrc
I have a Winfast TV Deluxe 2000 (or some such thing). The lircrc file I’m using now is lircrc
(stolen out of Mikael’s post to the cluster list – http://lists.mysql.com/cluster/2396)
Both REDO and UNDO logs are stored in buffers but are sent after a while to disk.
For REDO the disk write happens when 256 kByte of buffer is filled up or when a GCP requests synching the data (the 256 kByte write is without synch
but every 4 MByte gets synched even without GCP occurring.
For UNDO similar algorithm that write when 256 kByte of buffer is filled, synch after 4 MByte or when the local checkpoint is completed.
I wonder if we should be tuning more? I honestly don’t know the answer to this – but I don’t think it’s a limiting factor at the moment :)
Slashdot | Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia
I know that slashdot can be a bit behind in news… but this is rediculous! They’ve just found out that Australia has cane toads and that they’re a problem.
Is anybody else noticing an increase in ICQ spam?
I have an increasing number of random people, without much details messaging me and adding me to their buddy list (or attempting to) saying something like “hi”.
I obviously don’t know them.
For the record, if you’re a real person – say who you are in that first message!
Hit back to get the last screenshot. Then click the continue button. Boom.
Has anybody heard of QA? (That’s Quality Assurance, not Question and Answer)
They’ve gone ahead and been idiots. On screen, mouse activated big keyboard. Signing into online banking when other people are even remotely around (think conference, think at home, think anywhere really) is no longer secure.
Go get a clue Westpac.
(the following few entries were written at various times, but are now posted after the events).
So back from New Zealand for only a few days before heading off again. This time for a bit of a holiday though!
The plan is as follows:
– Jessie leaves on Wednesday (the day after I get back from NZ), taking my car over so we have a way to drive around and see the countryside.
– I join on the Saturday, taking a week off work to see some of Tasmania as I haven’t been since I was a foetus and would like to actually see and remember the trip this time
– Michael joins us the following Thursday. Ordinarily Jessie would have probably convinced him to do the boyfriendly thing of being there the whole time, but at about a month into a new job, he’s figuring it’s probably not the best idea to skip out for a week.
Just to make things interesting, at the same time I’ve got a bunch of work to do as well as a trip to organise.
I’ve now discovered that in some parts of tassie, mobile phone reception is sketchy (or just non-existent) especially for my carrier (Optarse – oh, I mean Optus – they’re cable Internet bandwidth limitations seem to have scarred me there). So I’ve been playing answering machine message tag with my travel agent Andrew.
In March, I’ll be in London (probably just for a day doing some touristy things on the way through), then Stockholm spending some time with Jonas getting further with online add/drop node and nodegroup for ndb (as he’s not coming to our developer conference due to impending new baby) before finally heading off to Sorrento, a bit out of Naples for the MySQL DevConf. I got hold of Andrew last night (when we stopped in Burnie) and aparrently he’s found a way so that I don’t have to go London -> Stockholm -> London -> Naples and can just go Stockholm -> Rome. That’ll be nice.
Anyway, back to what I’ve been doing in tassie…
It’s there for you to take a read. I’ve just read through it and it does sound like a good improvement. I would certainly feel happy licensing my code under this license.
It’s also good to know that MySQL has been and will be further involved in the process (as are many other orgs and companies).
ticketmaster.com.au – The White Stripes
Damn, damn, damn, damn damn. Only January 28th – and I’m in NZ.
Note to future organisers: make sure dates don’t overlap BDO or any really cool band tour dates.
Of course, the real disaster would be if Tool were touring at the same time as a work thing. How will people take it if i leave a company event for however long is needed to see Tool live. as many times as possible. I am dearly hoping that travel co-ordinates itself to see them in different cities, countries. Heck, even another planet if we can do that by the time the new album is ready :)
Some people don’t seem to get the Tool thing. It’s just good music. But that’s the thing – it is good music. Also, great music to hack with. I reckon each album gets played at least once per week – still.
Well, went out for food with jp, rupak and owen before heading down to a bar to meet with others for beer.
Slow start to this morning. Anyway, got some piccies. some people even smiled!
I wish there was a way to bulk transfer photos from my phone to my computer via bluetooth. It’s a real pain going “Send” on each friggin photo.
Pity phone cameras really suck, but hey – i guess they’re pretty portable. Notice how the really noisy pictures are taken with the phone’s “Night Mode”. Which really just means introduce more noise into the photo.
Westpac seem to have lost the plot. My housemate signed into her internet banking a few minutes ago (and then I did, just to confirm) to be greeted with one message.
A portion of which is below.
Do I really need to point out the problems with this?
Followup: I’m on the phone to them now. The woman on the other end of the phone wasn’t aware of the move. She’s just gotten the same message and is now confirming it. I’ve asked if this is some kind of April Fools joke. I hope it is.
Followup 2:Â Aparrently it’s no joke. “Early 2006”. I’m putting in a complaint. You can to – and please do!
I took this while on holiday in Apollo Bay. We were on a treetop walk – although this fern isn’t anywhere near the top of the trees. For some reason I like ferns.
Hope you like.
I’m sure there’s more photos hiding on somebody’s camera and stuff – but these are the ones on my phone.
I’m so impressed that wordpress allows me to upload them now (without pain). Brilliant!
Happy New Year!Â
