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Sun, 19 Sep 2004
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So, I have on my TODO list to go off and talk to some merchandise vendors about conference bags. That makes me wonder -- I go to a fair few conferences, and I almost never use the bags which come back from the conference, except to take stuff home from the conference itself. The big exception to that rule is the bag which came back from linux.conf.au 2001 in Sydney which is a backpack with a Everything Linux logo on it. Andrew uses that one as a bag to take stuff to daycar in because it's big enough for a change of clothes, lunch, nappies, and his asthma stuff. Am I a representative sample of the people out there who go to conferences?
If you are thinking about coming to linux.conf.au 2005, what do you want in a conference bag, if anything? I have a few ideas that I'll keep close to my chest for now so that people can be surprised, but I'll factor in any feedback I get from folks out there. Let me know at michael.still@lca2005.linux.org.au (that's my conference address, if you're reading this in 100 years, then you should try me at mikal@stillhq.com).
Do you even want a bag at all? Would you rather something else? What?
posted at: 22:14 | path: /diary/lca2005 | permanent link to this entry
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So, I spent some time on the weekend adding disk to Homebrew, which is a NAS / DB server at work. This was interesting because it was coupled with an upgrade to a 2.6 Debian stock kernel. Initally I wondered what the hell those Debian people were smoking when they built an initrd that made me change from treating my IDE disks as IDE to making me treat them as SCSI. What a pain in the arse I thought to myself.
I went off half cocked to be honest. There is a reason for the change. It turns out that only older SATA controllers are supported by IDE style drivers, and that they are considered flakey (I had noticed some flake with SATA and my 2.4.23 kernel, which is why the kernel upgrade was happening in the first place). The new drivers all treat the SATA controller and disk as SCSI, which means that Debian really has to do the same.
The confusion during upgrade stemmed from not really knowing how the IDE names would map to the SCSI ones. The SCSI disks are named in detection order (I think, I haven't verified this), and the IDE ones are named for controller / chain location. As it turns out the mapping was pretty easy (hde to sda, hdg to sdb), so that wasn't too bad.
Now to work out why the upgraded box wants to boot into an interactive version of GRUB, instead of the menu...
posted at: 17:19 | path: /linux | permanent link to this entry
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Ahhh Steven (who lives quite close to Marinetti) tells me that Damian, the waiter I encountered the other night, has been like that for years. I must admit that I kinda liked the change of attitude -- there is only so much sucking up you can put up with.
Steven of course didn't respond on his blog though -- he emailled me. How last century is that?!?
posted at: 17:00 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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Further to my previous comment on blog discoverability, the Scoblizer wrote a post in his blog about the topic. He makes interesting points about the pinging services. I must admit that I wasn't previously aware of those. I have also installed the referer logging plugin for Blosxom as a bit of an experiment. I'm never bothered before to work out who reads this site, and where they come from (I don't have access to the server logs on this hosted machine, and the ISP provide aggregate statistics only).
Robert is right -- without pinging and tracking refers, what I have had for the last five or so years is a website that just happens to be published using a blogging tool (first my own, and now recently Blosxom). That would explain why in those five years I've got lots of traffic, but never once ended up in the sort of inter-blog conversation which I'm having now.
I haven't had a chance to read Biz's post on the whole blog discoverability thing yet, but it certainly looks like it's worth the time. I have plugged him into my aggregator though, anf will catch up on reading when I have more coffee in my system. I do wonder if that is a factor -- I live in Australia, which is really the wrong timezone to be talking to Americans much. It's a bit of a pain, as I work for a company with quite a vibrant US office and my borther lives in Washington DC as a third of the US presence for annother Australian ISV. If I want to call them, then I have to ring at 11pm to get them at 9am, and I've never really been a big night person. Luckily my brother is a night owl at least.
posted at: 16:11 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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I just installed Cliprex lite in my quest for a Windows video player which doesn't suck... I should have read the reviews. DNS resolution doesn't work with Windows 2003 any more. I would highly recommend staying well clear of this piece of s**t.
I ran adaware et al, but in the end this fantastic page had the fix. I had to be kinda trusting to just randomly run it, but I was getting a little desperate...
By the way, Cliprex never did work... It just GPFed immediately. I don't even know if there is any video code in there...
posted at: 04:58 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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I've been using Xine under Linux for a while as my video player of choice, and it's nice. Really nice. My linux laptop is in for repair at the moment however, so I'm using my Windows (Server 2003) laptop instead. Yes, I do actively use two laptops. Anyways, I'm having troubles finding a Windows video player which doesn't suck. Windows Media Player can't play a MPEG file of all things, VLC has trouble with the interlacing used on the TiVo recordings, and the other couple I have downloaded have sucked equally. Does anyone have any hints?
posted at: 01:00 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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