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- 2 months on
my unix - On “racism” against Indian students in Australia I have been watching over the past 6 months or so as the Indian media has whipped up totally insane amounts of hysteria about so called “racist” attacks against Indian students in Australia. First let me make clear a few things: 1 – Indian students are the mainstay employee of night shifts at petrol stations and [...]
2 months on
my unix - Art Clokey (Gumby creator) passes away Many many generations of people grew up with Gumby, the classic stop motion clay animation. It is with much sadness I found that the creator of Gumby, Art Clokey, passed away at the ripe old age of 89. RIP, you will be missed.
2 months on
my unix - Climate change – what can you do? I was looking around on th Australian Governments Climate Change web site just now and the cynic inside of me started screaming…loudly!!! Under a section called “What can you do” I found such handy tips “offsetting my carbon footprint” and “how to take voluntary action”. Well thats nice! But let me tell you what is not [...]
2 months on
my unix - DHL Australia delivery fail I have just had DHL totally screw up a delivery, fair enough these things happen. what really pisses me off is that their so called service centre does not seem to care. Promised return calls that never happen, half an hour wait times. Extrememlyt rude staff who don’t listen. Basically really shit customer service. DHL [...]
2 months on
my unix - Fluendo suport MySQL acquisition The foremost developer of open source multimedia solutions, Fluendo, have thrown their weight firmly in the camp that says the European Commission should allow Oracle to acquire the MySQL assets within the Sun Microsystems acquisition. According to Fluendo co-founder Pegaz Paquet: “At a time when policymakers should be doing everything they can to promote innovation, the Commission [...]
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my unix - Algae biofuels and the lost decade Interesting article over at Wired about the Unites States Department of Energy Aquatic Species program… Lately I have been taking a keener interest in what our energy future looks like when you begin to price carbon, not to mention the elephant in the room, peak oil. As far as energy for transport goes I think we need [...]
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my unix - 5 easy steps to reduce your transport carbon footprint Use the car less Walk to places are that are easily accessible by foot Where possible use public transport Ride your bike (if you have one) Use blended fuels E10 fuel - In Australia just about every petrol station has blended ethanol fuel known as E10. Not only is E10 cheaper than standard unleaded it is made up of 10% renewable sources [...]
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my unix - Realising our Broadband Future Forum Currently I am at the second day of the Australian Governments “Realising our Broadband Future Forum“, which has turned out to be a very worthwhile event. The first day opened with a talk from our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who connected the NBN Project with Climate Change action…I must say its a logical connection that high [...]
3 months on
my unix - Successful Windows refund with Acer (NSW, Australia)! After much hullabaloo in trying to get a refund for the copy of Windows Vista Home Premium that came with my Acer Aspire 3935 it looks like we have finally come to an agreeable settlement. In the first instance Acer asked me to return the entire system to the retailer for a full refund. My answer…No, [...]
3 months on
my unix - Fluendo DVD Player for OpenSolaris, arriving very very soon! Not long ago the fantastic folk of Fluendo released the DVD Player for Linux and promised us Solaris folk that we were not forgotten and would in time get a version for our platform. That time is almost here! Visually there is not much difference to be discerned between this version and the one for Linux [...]
4 months on
my unix - Cheaper OpenSolaris support As discussed in this thread there is a need for an OpenSolaris support option that is not “enterprise grade” for those in the community who just want to get security patches and package updates on stable releases of OpenSolaris. Sun has been pushing their “basic” option which includes Sun support that many of us do [...]
4 months on
my unix - Acer Aspire 3935 and OpenSolaris Picked up a new laptop today, the Aspire 3935. It runs OpenSolaris really well except for the ethernet device (broadcom) being unsupported. Pro’s: Screen is great at 1,366×768 which is somewhat better than those shipping with other 13.3aptops (usually ~1,200×800), very crisp. Light but still feels sturdy 4 gig of RAM looks very elegant great value when compared to similar offerings [...]
5 months on
my unix - Where did the Linux Netbooks go? I have been looking around different retail stores in Sydney for a Linux based Netbook…checked Harvey Norman and Dick Smith Electronics but only Windows :-( What happened? Where did they all go?
5 months on
my unix - Got MiFi! I ordered a MiFi 2352 ~ 2 weeks ago and it came in today… The device is essentially a HSDPA/UMTS >> 802.11b/g router, it will take my Telstra NextG connection (Soon to be migrated to Internode) and turn it into a wireless hotspot for up to 5 devices. The beauty of this device as that i don’t [...]
5 months on
my unix - Chrome Frame – Fixing IE because Microsoft won’t With Microsoft having long ignored the world of open standards that is the internet it was only a matter of time until someone took things into their own hands and patched the kludge that is Internet Explorer. That someone is none other than Microsofts favourite search company, Google! Google have created what it calls “Chrome Frame“, [...]
5 months on
my unix - Haiku (New BeOS) goes Alpha1! Haiku have after 8 years of development to re-create the BeOS, released Alpha 1 for Release 1, the official announcement can be found here.
6 months on
my unix - Survey – Commercal support for Mono on Solaris Whether or not you favour Mono it is always good for those in our community have choice, if you like the idea of Novell commercially supporting Mono on top of Solaris head on over to Miguel de Icaza’s weblog and express your opinion in the survey.
6 months on
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