Cafuego's Blog

daily: blog

Sunday, 04 Nov 2007 04:01:47 GMT

This is my last post here and this blog is now archived at www.2004.cafuego.net.

The new blog is at www.cafuego.net

daily: OSDC

Tuesday, 02 Oct 2007 23:25:34 GMT

Last year I properly attended my first Open Source Developers Conference, and this year's - held in Brisbane from November 26 to 29 - is coming up fast.

I'm planning to attend again this year and if you have any developers doing open source work or doing any open source work yourself, I can heartily recommend going. OSDC is a great place to pick up tick and trips and find out how to use your favourite tools and languages in unexpected new ways.

The theme for this year's conference is "Success in Development & Business".

linux.conf.au: programme

Saturday, 22 Sep 2007 23:14:30 GMT

Well then, after a nearly false start two weeks ago, we now have a programme for linux.conf.au 2008! Before we publicise it, we need to of course notify speakers, which means it's still hush-hush completely secret confidential we can't reveal any details publically.

However, we can provide you with a sneak preview:

daily: shroom

Saturday, 22 Sep 2007 17:55:35 GMT

After a bit of rain during the week, a bunch of delicious looking mushrooms popped out of the ground next to our house.

The moral of the story? Photos taken with camera phone, transferred to computer via bluetooth, sucked intof-spot and exported to gallery2 via the f-spot plugin. Yay :-)

daily: aaarg!

Tuesday, 18 Sep 2007 12:30:52 GMT

Well, wasn't that just a whole lot of way too many interesting times.
Ran for secretary in the LUV elections.Went to emergency at St Vincents with severe stomach pains. Server died, ordered rebuild, and restored from backup. Ordered new server for migration early next week.Found hacker in freshly rebuilt server, running paypal phishing scam site. Cleaned up. Sighed. Hacker back, turned server off, waiting for new hardware. Went to emergency at RHM with severe stomach pains.Won election.Had gastroscopy.Sat around twiddling thumbs waiting for new server hardware (and on drugs ;-)Rebuilt new virtualised hosting system, moved all services.

... and that's where we're at now. (The pain is caused by damaged stomach lining, got meds now, which help - yay).

daily: choice whinge

Tuesday, 21 Aug 2007 22:40:04 GMT

All hail consumer choice, the bandwagon that has brought us deregulation and choice of utility companies until we could deregulate and choose no more.

With yesterday's mail I received a water bill, and in the same envelope was a flyer informing me the price of water is going up because a new desalination plant is being built. And of course, desalinated water costs more to produce.

For quite some time it's been possible to switch energy providers and choose to purchase and use only "green" energy. It costs a bit more, but is better for the environment and in theory using it means there will be more investment in renewable energy.

In Holland, a lot of drinking water is created from recycled sewage - like what Towoomba didn't want. Sewage is treated, released in to the surface water supply (rivers) and that same surface water supply is used to generate more drinking water. It tastes fine and I grew up without any nasty diseases.

Now, if creating drinking water this way is cheaper than desalination (and I don't see how it would not be) and more choice for consumers is good, why am I not able to choose to buy my water from a company that sells water from recycled sewage at a lower cost than what others - who want desalinated water - pay for theirs?

daily: sickie

Saturday, 11 Aug 2007 23:22:34 GMT

... still flu and/or cold.

daily: magic 8-web

Saturday, 04 Aug 2007 09:13:26 GMT

The magic 8-web spins and gives Stewart Smith a couple of options for his mum-friendly backup system,pybackpack
It has a friendly Backup tab and a marginally less friendly Restore tab, but I don't know if it handles multiple disk-spanning backup sets.a blog I wrote
Backup to DVD? Ha! udev, a portable usb harddisk and rdiff-backup are all you need. Mum plugs in the harddisk and unplugs it when she receives an email informing her the backup is done.

daily: something shiny

Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 05:10:48 GMT

Donna is reading through some local newspaper thing and asked me to have a look at http://eubiq.com.au/. That actually looks pretty shiny!

daily: source of all logic

Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 01:12:24 GMT

After a nice 4-day mini-holiday to Canberra and Majors Creek we're back home today.

Donna and I stayed with Chris & Kelly, and ate ourselves stupid whilst playing with Linden the kitten. All those calories needed to be gotten rid of again, so Rusty and Alli set us to work digging holes and planting trees.

On the way home we noticed something intriguing along the Hume highway. Could it be the source of all mathematics is situated near Wodonga? I managed to take a photo:

Yes! So, if you have any algorithms giving you trouble, call the logic centre!