RX-7 for sale on ebay now

August 17 2008 by Dave in General |No Comments

I stooped that low  At least it should sell now I hope.  Perhaps I need an ebay rant http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280257255984

New Olympic sports

August 13 2008 by Dave in General |No Comments

I’ve been watching with Belinda, some of the Olympics, and I notice that there are some really silly sports (sorry anyone who likes them) for what I thought was more a track and field competition.  Consider softball, tennis or basketball and contrast that against the ancient Greeks running naked across a stadium, threatened with death [...]

Linux server up and running!

August 13 2008 by Dave in IT, Linux, Microsoft, Work |No Comments

I installed OpenSuSE 11 today to replace Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.  All up it only took about 2 hours to install and configure including Subversion, Samba, Web and MySQL.  It feels to good to have it back.  I’ll note the specs of this machine: Athlon 2800+ Asus A7n8x Deluxe 2gb RAM GeForce 7600GT 120Gb WD [...]

ABC iView, it IS actually good!

August 11 2008 by Dave in General |No Comments

I don’t know what happened, but ABC iView runs quickly now!  It shows me connecting at between 2-3mb, menus are as fast as you can expect from flash, and there are no jumps or stops in the show.

Out with the new, in with the old

August 10 2008 by Dave in IT, Linux, Microsoft, PHP, Work |No Comments

I got fed up with Windows Server 2008 for the last time yesterday, and I will start the migration back to OpenSuSE Linux on my home dev server.  It’s up to version 11 now, so I will install that, even though it’s a pain to export subversion, files and databases. What tipped me over the [...]