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Tuesday 25 July, 2006 @ 09:28:24 by Cafuego
daily / wedding

Last week KatteKrab (this is an old dutch word, meaning "she of the cloven finger") and I celebrated our 10th (9th) wedding anniversary. The number is under some dispute because we had a handfasting a year and a day before the "official" wedding.

To mark the occasion, we went to a new-ish french restaurant in North Mel8ourne called Libertine. I can heartily recommend it, food, wine and service were fantastic!

Wednesday 19 July, 2006 @ 16:32:24 by Cafuego
daily / terrorism

Yarra Trams tram #192 must die.

It has a wheel with a flat side, which makes an awful amount of noise as it comes zooming downhill along Abbotsford Street.

Donations of explosives are welcome. 

Tuesday 11 July, 2006 @ 16:50:50 by Cafuego
wifi / nodegsg

NodeGSG is back. Using a surplus access point and NoCat, there is now free (limited) wifi access here. 17 neighbours have found the network and tried to view some websites sofar.

NodeGSGActually, it's more likely that 17 neighbour laptops have tried to access WindowsUpdate, but got blocked ;-)

External access is shaped to 64/64Kbit using shaperd, so I still keep decent bandwidth for myself and the business. It's also set up to transparently proxy through squid, to keep external bandwidth use to a minimum.

For browsing sites and/or checking webmail it should be dandy this way.

Last week I downloaded a whole bunch of Linux CD and DVD ISOs (CentOS, Mandriva, Ubuntu) to hand out to a bandwidth-unfortunate at the next LUV meeting. These are sitting on one of the machines here and I plan to share those out to whomever wants them.

Friday 7 July, 2006 @ 17:21:56 by Cafuego
daily / shiny

Shiny specs for a new Linux file/mail/sql/virtualisation server?

Shuttle SD31P

LGA775, i945G, FSB1066, Dual DDR2 667, PCI-E, SATA 300 RAID, Int. VGA, GbE LAN, USB2.0, SPDIF, 8Ch Audio, 350W PSU

Intel Pentium D 940

3.2Ghz/Presler/2x2MB/800FSB/EMT64/XD/VT±/Dual Core

Kingston 2048mb kit

(2x1024mb) PC5300 (667mhz) DDR2 RAM CAS4

Western Digital WD3200KS

2x 320gb 7200rpm 16mb SATAII/300 in raid1