September 29, 2007 The simple things in Linux I picked up a copy of Sepultura’s Against earlier today and decided to play it on my Kubuntu Linux notebook. Come to think of…
September 23, 2007 Texas Hold ’em up! I came second in a Texas Hold ’em poker tournament yesterday. That marked my best performance so far as the trophy continues to evade…
September 17, 2007 Back in Brisvegas I’m back in Brisbane this week. This time it’s for Cisco’s Networkers which has found its way back to Brisbane from the much-loved Gold…
July 31, 2007 I’m back in business My new DSL service came online over the weekend so I’m now back online. I haven’t heard boo from Exetel so I will assume…
July 27, 2007 The wheels are in motion I’ve received at least one e-mail and phone call indicating my new DSL service request has been acknowledged. Well that’s a relief. Now, apparently,…
July 25, 2007 The cable is cut… Well, so, my old DSL connection is no more. I was away from my house over the weekend so I’m unsure of the exact…
July 9, 2007 Trouble in high-speed paradise Darn it, I knew it was too good to be true. My friendly ISP sent me an e-mail a few weeks ago stating that…
June 18, 2007 J is my middle initial! There, I said it – happy!? My given name is Rodney Joseph Gedda, or Rodney J. Gedda as the Americans would have it, or…
June 12, 2007 Back online Sydney’s recent wild and windy weather resulted in a blackout and some subsequent downtime. I’m now back online. I hope your datacentre survived the…
June 3, 2007 Hate for hate’s sake Being an engineer and computer journalist, politics for me seems like little more than a legal way to extort money out of a population…
May 3, 2007 CYA CeBit 2007 Well there goes another CeBit. I was pleasantly surprised that this year’s event actually had some content worth writing about. But I’m glad it’s…
April 15, 2007 Cool gear from Cafepress.com I took delivery of a nice Amarok baseball shirt late last week. I ordered it online from Cafepress. After attempting to use the Revelinux…
March 4, 2007 Off to Brisvegas A bit of a blog to let everyone know I’m jetting off of Brisbane for HP‘s software universe 2007 conference. The first thing I’ll…
February 12, 2007 Drought, what drought? If Australia is in the worst drought on record surely the rain of the past few days will help alleviate the problem. As I…
February 3, 2007 Virtually back online I’m now back online after my Xen virtual machine was migrated to another physical host. I can’t fault the performance and stability of Xen….
January 17, 2007 Churn baby churn As mentioned, today was set down as the big churn day. Well churn it did! I’m now on an Exetel 8Mbps ADSL service with…
January 15, 2007 Back to work, and linux.conf.au I returned to work after the summer holidays today only to have about a gazillion e-mails in my inbox waiting to be deleted. If…
January 12, 2007 Let the churn begin Not satisfied with my existing 1.5Mbps ADSL from Westnet I decided to churn to a 8Mbps with Exetel upon advice from a friend. I…
January 9, 2007 Lovin’ change and holidays What better way to spend some of your holiday time than giving your blog a makeover. I’ve redesigned the front-end with the Nonzero theme…
October 31, 2006 Get well Tony Just a quick post to say how shocked I was last month when I read about Tony Nugent being hit by a car. I…