Bluetrait

In an open plan office you can hear almost everything,

I tell you want I DON'T want to hear.

Your crappy mobile phone ring tones. Use something that sounds like a REAL phone, or have your phone set to silent.

If I get time tomorrow I am going to purchase tiger. So I decided to do a backup of my Mac to my Windows 2003 file server.

I have Windows sharing turned on for the Mac and am copying the files from the Windows system.

Currently the Mac cannot access Windows shares on a Server 2003 system because of the authentication used, I’m hoping tigers adds support for this. (Note that a Mac works happily with every other Windows OS).

There were a few problems copying files, mainly to do with permissions and the simple fact that the Mac file system (HFS+ if I remember correctly) is much more advanced than NTFS.

Although there were a few problems I was impressed with the way Windows handled the errors (of course Samba on the Mac translated most of the file structure differences into something Windows understands).

Permissions of the current user do not have access to the file (above).

Unable to copy a symlink

Locked file

General Permissions.

Advanced Permissions

If you have a Telstra mobile phone then you probably haven't been able to use it most of the day.

The network died at about 10am, supposedly Telstra didn't realise until 1.30pm BUT MY PHONE IS STILL NOT WORKING (and it's now 4.45pm).

Not happy when you're in the middle of a Rally trying to find people. Speaking of the Rally it was quite successful :) Got myself a free shirt, yay :p

So anyway, back to Telstra. I tried ringing their support line and FAR OUT. The system is voice activated and the first question is "So please try to explain what your problem is"....Now I could go into a long rant about problems, but far out. It doesn't understand anything. So anyway I gave up, piece of....

So if you sent me any sms' today or something, I didn't get them.

Because we have nothing better to do....

RALLY!!

I haven't had the chance to work on the code for this site for a while, been pretty busy with uni. Anyway I have a week off (some Faculty of IT thing, not uni wide) which is cool. I did a touch up on some code tonight. I'm now running version 0.3.9 of my code. 0.3.8 added the following:

• Trackback support
• Newer version of FCKeditor (which still sucks a bit)
• Small fixes to work on unix systems
• Some backend support for PostgreSQL (although this will take sometime to complete)
• Some other general fixes

I'd like to release something at version 0.4.0 but we'll see. If I release it at that version it probably still isn't ready for general use. But I'll get there slowly.

If I were to use wordpress, I'd use this.

Much faster.

It looks like I'm moving out of home. Max and I have got an apartment in Bondi. The place currently has people living in it, although it will be free in August (which is when we move in). Lots of things need to be planned. I'd like to have (finally) my P's by that stage.

More details as they become available. Very excited.

I drove up to the Blue Mountains yesterday (I clocked up 165km) to help clean up my grandmother’s place.

In the process of cleaning I scored myself a set of old (but large) speakers. Why are all old speakers so big? I also got some Hitachi Amp with a built in radio, cool.

Anyway, these speakers have two tweeters, one mid range and one low range.

While I was giving them a test I noticed that the base felt much separated from the voice, compared to my current speakers. I feel this is mainly because my other smaller speakers only have one tweeter and one "everything else" speaker.

So they need to provide a lot of the lower end sound that would otherwise be taken care of the mid range speaker.

I'm not sure if I like the sound of the bigger speakers as much. Although I haven't had a real chance to play with them. I have a better amp I need to try, plus some different music.

They're pretty old so I'm not expecting much. But hey they will be _very_ useful in the future (more on that later).

But yeah. Free stuff is cool.

Tiger home page

Feature List

I was deleting some links on my toolbar and noticed a link to a blog site. Ah I remember book marking this page because it had something interesting on it. I don't remember what it was, but anyway. I started having a quick read.

First post mentions (La)TeX, now that sounds familiar. Ah yes TFM uses (La)Tex.

Next post talks about SLUG and its new committee. Funny, because only a few weeks ago I moved their webserver on to our stolen fridge, yet I've never met these people!

Wow such a small world. I might go to the next slug meeting....