Bluetrait

New Dev Box

Michael Dale — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:44:03 +1000

Got myself a new dev box today:

AMD Phenom x3 8450 (3x2.1GHz)
2gb Ram

Currently running Windows 2008 (for some Hyper-V testing). Seems to run pretty quick, just needs more ram ;)

New Server

Michael Dale — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:50:01 +1000

We're just in the process of replacing our server. Specs:

Windows 2008 64bit (with Hyper-V for Web and VoIP)
Intel Q6600 (Quad 2.4GHz)
4gb Ram (soon to be upgraded to 8gb)
2x300gb Raid 1 Boot drive
4x750gb Raid 5 Data drive

So email is currently down but will be back up tonight.

Bluetrait Event Viewer 1.8.1

Michael Dale — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:26:17 +1000

Bluetrait Event Viewer 1.8.1 is now out. This version fixes a few bugs found in 1.8.

I've got a few ideas for BTEV 2. I'm hoping to start on it soonish, although we'll have to see about time.

I just installed WordPress 2.0.11 to test BTEV (yes it still supports 2.0) and wow, it is so much cleaner and quicker than WordPress 2.5.

The next version of WordPress is going to have Google Gears support, which is cool but shows how bloated WordPress has become.

Don't buy seagate hard drives.

Michael Dale — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:19:31 +1000

I've just had another seagate drive die on me.

This time it was a 320gb SATA2 one, so pretty new. One of the chips on it died and there was an awesome smell.

We've had so many seagate drives die now it is not funny (2 this week). I've personally had about 5 this year.

Anyway as I've said before do not buy seagate drives, they just don't work.

We've been using Samsung drives, they're cheaper and work better than seagate drives.

Last week we upgraded housefiles to 4x750gb HDDs in Raid 5.

This car is protected by Chuck Norris

Michael Dale — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:14:13 +1000

Tournament of Minds Judging Program

Michael Dale — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:05:29 +1000

So I have started writing a judging program for Tournament of Minds that will be used in the Sydney East section this year. If everything works out it will be used throughout NSW next year.

So this is what it is starting to look like :)

Bluetrait Board

Michael Dale — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:56:15 +1000

Right I wrote a small PHP program that manages who has spent what for our house.

It can be download here and requires PHP 5.2 and MySQL 4.1.

What I'm currently working on

Michael Dale — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:42:00 +1000

Since I have an assignment due next week I thought it would be a good idea to not work on it :)

So in no particular order I am currently doing:

Working two days a week for BlueArc doing customer support and looking after our firewalls/vpns
Doing a networking subject at UTS (two subjects to go until I have Bachelor of Science in Information Technology)
Half day a week maintaining a website for a friend who is currently overseas
Writing Bluetrait 2
Continued development of Bluetrait Event Viewer
Writing an online judging system for Tournament of Minds NSW
Writing an online application that manages money spent in our house (it's also got an iphone version)
Doing adhoc IT support for Belle Property Hunters Hill

Bluetrait Event Viewer 1.8

Michael Dale — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:17:20 +1000

Bluetrait Event Viewer 1.8 is now out.

Version 1.8 has updated styling to match WordPress 2.5 and also adds an RSS feed for recent events.

I also got an email from Ozgreg yesterday (one of the developers who writes WPG2) saying that they now use BTEV for debugging and unit testing for their plugin, awesome!

New Car

Michael Dale — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:59:21 +1000

We'll I purchased my first car today!

It is a Honda Accord 1998 V6-L and has only done 25,000km. Cost me $4k.

It has been sitting in a garage for the last two years so it is at the mechanic getting a major service and a timing belt change.