Month: May 2010

  • Sad day for Australian Internet users

    MINISTER for Communications Stephen Conroy has vowed to push on with his controversial internet filtering scheme, despite a barrage of criticism. Senator Conroy told The Sun-Herald that internet advocacy groups such as GetUp! were ”deliberately misleading” the Australian public about the scheme, which will refuse classification to illegal and socially unacceptable web pages. The legislation, […]

  • Why do people use the term “Photoshop” ?

    Be warned this is a rant! It really erks me when I hear the term “Oh did you Photoshop that?” but what they really mean is that you have altered an image (from original) using some software to do something that wasn’t in the original image. Now do a search with your favorite search engine and see […]

  • Why do people use the term "Photoshop" ?

    Be warned this is a rant! It really erks me when I hear the term “Oh did you Photoshop that?” but what they really mean is that you have altered an image (from original) using some software to do something that wasn’t in the original image. Now do a search with your favorite search engine and see […]

  • ADSL2+ now a reality

    Effective from today my Internet connection has a boost in speed! I’m now on ADSL2+ (Internode)  So no longer am I locked at 1500/256 at the time of writing, my connection speed is … And I’m no longer on the Davey street exchange! (Telstra equipment) So a small win, Just have to wait and see […]

  • SPAM! Did I get your attention ?

    Well as we are forced daily to deal with unwanted stuff, weather this be Email, catalogues, To the House Holder or even now on Skype! I’ve recently been getting a lot of request from so called “contacts” wanting to be added, but they have spam in their request (mainly aimed at anatomy enlargement!) In Skype […]

  • Mumble Server 1.2.2

    Ok after having such success with the Icinga Mumble Server I’ve decided to install one myself !!! at this stage it’s for use for the Category5 BoD, but (currently) its not password protected, so feel free to connect to it and see how it works. My ADSL connection speed is (due for ADSL2+ soon) 1500/256Kb/s […]

  • Time to review and rebuild

    In my last blog, I reported that the Ubuntu-AU LoCo had sadly lost its Ubuntu-recognized LoCo Teams status. Well there has been much discussion both in the IRC channels (#ubuntu-au #ubuntu-au-chat) and the mailing list. SO to attempt to get the ball rolling, I decided to call an IRC meeting for Monday the 17th May […]

  • Ubuntu-AU has its answer

    Over the last few months the Ubuntu LoCo Council has been periodically reviewing the current status of LoCo’s around the planet.  Ubuntu-AU (Australia) was up for review, and now the answer has been made public… Hello Australian LoCo Team! I’m writing on behalf of the LoCo Council with regards to the Australian Team Re-Approval process. […]

  • Am I now Famous ?

    So if you get mentioned on the Internet does that make you famous? Well if so then hey I’m now famous! 😀 See the full story at… 

  • WordPress 3.0 Beta2 (pre-release) and PHP5 (ubuntu-server)

    As I like to use the latest available version of WordPress, So I’ve thought it wise to use the php.ini-development version of php.ini. this will revile any possible issues that may be not be straight forward to understand, by giving some debug text when something goes wrong! So if you happen to see any weird […]