NYE – Freaks & Geeks at @newtown
Jan/060
Let’s just say it was a big night 
More photos over in Rozie’s gallery
Another year
Oct/056
Another year, another birthday. Didn’t really get up to a whole lot yesterday. I’ve been on holidays since last week. Mum and Dad bought me a Motorola RAZR (still trying figure out how to get this thing to speak to Linux) and Rozie bought me a ticket to the RPRSNT design conference.
Had dinner in Epping with Rozie and Mum at Kenny’s Chinese Restaurant. Its been a year or so since we last ate there. The food was nice. We had oxtail in chinese spices and onion, ling fillets in ginger and shallots and spicy salt tofu.
The batter on the tofu was nice with just a little bit of chewiness to it, the oxtail was tender and had nice flavour. The ling was a bit bland, but it was really that kind of dish anyhow. The service was a bit awkard though with three or more waiters wandering around the restuarant looking lost. Once the restuarant got a few more people in there it wasn’t so bad though.
Dangerous Minds: The Aftermath
Oct/051
Last Friday night, Rozie put on her “Dangerous Minds” Trivia night with Popfrenzy, and it was a great success. We got just over 170 people, with Chequers at the Mandarin Club being pretty much packed (can’t pack as many people in when they’re sitting down) and managed to raise just over $1500 for the NSW Cancer Council. Everyone seemed to have a great time (minus a couple of annoying loud mouthed individuals who insisted on yelling out answers) and Maynard was on the ball as well. Seems like people enjoyed it enough that they were already asking when the next one is. I guess that decision will be up to Rozie to decide.
Turning off del.icio.us posts
Oct/051
I’m turning off my del.icio.us posts for now. Its kind of overtaking my blog and making me lazy (like you haven’t noticed ) If you want to keep up with what I’m linking over at del.icio.us, there’s the last ten links in the sidebar of my blog, you can check out directly on del.icio.us, or you can add me to your inbox on del.icio.us if you’ve got an account.
links for 2005-09-23
Sep/050
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Nice free icons for websites
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macpiload is a dockapp for GNU/Linux that monitors ACPI status, meaning temperature, battery status and AC adapter status, in a nice graphical display. It has an LCD look-alike user interface, and is supported by X window managers such as Window Maker, Af
links for 2005-09-21
Sep/051
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Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss live at Sommer Etikett
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The Cyclic Defrost blog
links for 2005-09-20
Sep/050
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great networking since 2004, powered by dbus and hal
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here are some packages for NetworkManager for ubuntu/breezy
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GNOME Sensors Applet is an applet for the GNOME Panel to display readings from hardware sensors, including CPU temperature, fan speeds and voltage readings under Linux
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An Elite-inspired MMO game. Not released yet, but some great preview screenshots and video
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Oooh, interesting take on the controller
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RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters. RoundCub
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Serpentine is an application for writing CD-Audio discs. It aims for simplicity, usability and compability.
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If you use two pointers, can four people still play? How will Revolution handle more conventional games? We’ve got the facts.
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Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files, commonly called tags.
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Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.
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A brief rundown on what Flock will have to offer
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“Flock advertises itself as a “social browser,” meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools.”
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Hopefully this’ll mean quicker updating of the IBM server support on RHEL
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Learn to use Google’s advanced query syntax to get results quickly
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And this time around it will be built by you
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WPG2 is a WordPress Plug-in that embeds Gallery2 within WordPress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into the WordPress Sidebar and Blog entries.
links for 2005-09-19
Sep/050
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The Daily Chump Bot is an IRC bot which allows you to create a collaborative weblog from IRC chat. Using it is easy: just cut and paste a URL into the channel and then add comments using a simple label.
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Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the TV series “St Elsewhere” who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show.
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Expanding the value of BladeCenter ecosystem
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Music management and playback for gnome – looks potentially better than Rhythmbox
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After kernel upgrade to 2.6.12-8, restart/boot = kernel panic
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Hilarious retort from a Sun engineer to a SPARCLinux developer
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This sounds like the problem I had last night. Time to boot off the live CD and fix things up
links for 2005-09-17
Sep/050
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Deskzilla is an alternative Bugzilla client. It is a desktop application with interactive user interface and unique capabilities that are a valuable addition to the feature-rich web-based Bugzilla software.
links for 2005-09-15
Sep/050
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One Debian package daily
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Anecdotes about the development of Apple’s original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it.
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AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can’t load the GUI, or don’t have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use
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Griffith is a movie collection manager application. Adding items to the movie collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web.
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A website providing customizable Themes for WordPress users
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An OpenSource embedded Linux development kit for system builders, early adopters and tech-savvy end users.
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introducing the world’s most innovative social browsing experience
links for 2005-09-13
Sep/051
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Tinnitus Treatment
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This is a list of the best free downloadable tech/gaming shows currently available on the Internet. These shows are also referred to as vidcasts, VODcasts, videozines, and IPTV.
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commandN is a weekly web news video show that covers technology trends online and offline.
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NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks – a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology.
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Serial console, firmware hacks and other information
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1.0Tb Network Attached Storage, PPC-based device
links for 2005-09-10
Sep/050
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DIY MIDI SID Synth built from a C64
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Gameboy music & camera/ 8-bit futurist/ atari /micro-chiptunes/electro-funk/space-punk
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Commodore 64 Music in the real world & related SID stories…
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VST virtual instrument: ReFX’s QuadraSID
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QuadraSID offers far more than a simple emulation of the SID chip. Enriched with many new functions e.g. an arpeggiator, four LFOs, wavetables and a eight fold oversampling, this software instrument offers unlimited sonic possibilities, and surprises even
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http://www.xlr8r.com/projects/BedroomRockers_sample.pdf
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“Your favorite bikinis from Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball can be yours!”
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The Subsystem Device Driver is a pseudo device driver designed to support the multipath configuration environments in the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, the IBM TotalStorage DS family, the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, and the IBM T
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Its about time I get my hearing tested and some decent earplugs
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Podcast of the Daily Show videos
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Lik-Sang found a whole bunch of original, unopened stock of Super Famicoms and Gameboys. Great for collectors except now they’re all sold out
Tonight (9/9/2005)
Sep/050
All that you need to know is:
- DOMU at the Civic
- Steve Rachmad at the Civic
And don’t forget tomorrow night:
- Paradise Lost at the Sly Fox in Enmore (flyer)
links for 2005-09-06
Sep/050
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LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, etc
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RetroGaming Radio is your MP3 show all about classic gaming – interviews, news, hardware and software reviews, flashbacks, editorial rants – we love classic gaming and we’re on the air every month to bring you the goods. Three years and running! Find out
links for 2005-09-02
Sep/050
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This article is intended mainly for developers who are new to Xen and who want to know more about it. The first two sections, however, are general and do not deal with code.
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LEGO Digital Designer allows you to create LEGO designs on your computer. Then you can order a custom the design
links for 2005-08-29
Aug/050
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Learning chinese characters for restaurant menus
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This section is about implementation ideas of how to bring all the UNIX power to the GNOME desktop.
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iTunes’ available song ratings of 1 to 5 stars allow users to quickly find their favorites and help the Party Shuffle feature play more of what they like most. This article explores the algorithm iTunes uses to pick what comes next in the playlist.
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Images of crazy shit going down at a rave in Utah
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“Nintendo Japan showed everyone what country is still boss of gaming with the announcement last week of a Famicom-themed Game Boy Micro.” I want one!!!
links for 2005-08-26
Aug/050
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Generation NEX is Messiah’s slim and sexy micro version of the beloved Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
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VDXtoSVG is a project to create an XSLT spreadsheet that can translate VDX files to SVG.