Today is the day big guy. Today, my good friends Leachy and Hayley are getting hitched

Good luck guys, and enjoy your special day.

In the mean time, I’m putting up some awesome photos of Leachy from Colours Night 2001 at the University of Ballarat. Go you little ANZAC!

Also, I need to note that the little red handbag ended up in lake syphillis at the end of the night, and continued to float around for just about the whole year

Next, it’s Mick and Jen’s turn to tie the know in January next year. Unfortunately, it does seem to clash with Linux.conf.au next year in Dunedin.

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Who would have thought… a Gentoo graphical installer! Mick, you should have tried this before rebuilding your system

Gentoo Linux Installer Project Page and the mirror.

This reminds me a little of the old Mandrake installer that I was using around the v7 mark maybe? Once this installer goes mainstream, will it mean that more people will use gentoo because they were scared off by the text based install? Only time will tell.

I was just thinking about Apache web serving statistics (go figure), and had a look at my Webalizer log. My webcam snapshot which hasn’t been updated in about 3 months is the most active item. My spider senses tell me that it’s probably Mick using the GKrellKam plugin to GKrellm. Nice one bruvva

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So, unfortunate for me, I had to join reality. On Monday, I spent the morning in bed (my own bed) which was great, but spent the afternoon cleaning all the windows for our inspection on Tuesday. All is well, and things are slowly moving along with the new place. Bek and I caught the tram up to the real estate agents to sign the papers, and realised that they want the rent monthly!. What a pain in the ass! This also means that we have to not only fork out a heap of cash in bond, but also the same amount for one month of rent in advance!

Work has been good, and today has been really busy. It’s good because the days zip by a lot quicker. Also, it looks like the wiki I set up for our group documents is starting to take off. I added a plugin to TWiki which generates PDF’s of the current page so you can email them to your un-wiki’d buddies. Pretty neat little trick.

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It was a HUGE night last night. I had good intentions in going to the presenations today, but it didn’t quite work out that way. I ended up getting up at about 9:00am - 9:30am and had a shower and stuff. I may have been a little sick too
I sat in T1 for the keynote by Eben Moglen who is a lawyer working for free software. He was a real champion. I made it about half way through, then I just had to go home. I went back to bed and missed almost the whole day after I finally got up at 4pm. Nick, a guy who we met here from Sydney said that we woke him at at 5am when we were coming home. Apparently we (probably just me) made a heap of noise. Ooops. Sorry to everyone I woke up! The four of us just got back from Hungry Jacks in Belconnen where we cleaned up with the vouchers. I feel so much better now!

Looks like we’re going out again tonight before we go home tomorrow morning. I think I might not drink tonight…..

Here’s some photos LCA2005 photos from Tuddy and Josh, if you’re interested

• Tuddy’s LinuxConf photo gallery
• Josh’s LinuxConf photo gallery

From the Linux.conf.au Wiki there is plenty of stuff, including some links to some people’s photo galleries. Here’s two that I thought looked pretty good.

• Samuel Gordon Stewart’s LinuxConf photos
• John Hewitt’s LinuxConf photos

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Funny. Very funny night. Here’s a photo of me.

Horses… and more horses. Being poured into sideways glasses… and drunk by my peeps in pubs. Carlton Draught. Made from Beer. Not stolen at all from some random Irish pub in Canberra.

Also, before I got to bed (it’s currently 5:12am!!! OMG WTF BBQ!) the Cats rule for a kick ass win over Port. Boo hoo for Tredrea for not getting a free kick from Scarlett right in the last seconds of the game. Woooo hooooo my nizzle.

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Unfortunatly, I still haven’t won one of the IBM X40 ThinkPads that the LCA organisers have been giving away. I still haven’t given up hope though. There is one left tomorrow, so fingers crossed.

This morning I went to the keynote by Andrew Morton, who is the Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer. Although he wasn’t much of a speaker, he was still interesting. Talked alot about the new development cycle of the kernel which the LWN guy talked about the day before.

Going to play some pool tonight and drink lots of beers. Later fools!

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I had a look on the web site, and found that our place was still on the list, so I swiped the photos. I hope nobody minds

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The actual conference started on Wednesday, with the tutorials. The four of us (Me, Timmy, Tuddy, and Josh) went to the PHP session. Timmy and I stayed for the first bit, but left soon after. It was kinda dry, and Rasmus was talking lots about the differences in PHP5 compared to PHP4. Looks like they have implemented a heap of Java-style OO stuff.

In the afternoon, Timmy and I went to Building User Interfaces with Video and 3D Graphics For Fun and Profit!. It was run by Wayne Piekarski, who is a research guy from Uni SA, and was playing a lot with augmented reality, and overlaying 3D video over normal video to create an half-virtual world. He is using lots cool stuff, but I haven’t got the energy to write about it all. Have a look at Timmy’s blog for that

That night, the four of us cooked a BBQ dinner which ROCKED!

Sausage sizzle my nizzle!

Today (Thursday) we heard an awesome presenation by Tridge. He was basically talking about the software engineering practices that he’s using in Samba, which include: code generation, static error checking, runtime error checking and other stuff. He mentioned at two things which changed the way that he codes are Valgrind and talloc.

Next we had Tracking 2.6: what the kernel developers are up to by Jonathan Corbet, who writes for Linux Weekly News. He talked about what has been going on the 2.6 kernel, and about how Linus is not doing the whole odd number kernel revision number for unstable/testing kernels. Apparently, there has been a shift from using a devel kernel series for implementing new kernel changes to putting them straight in the 2.6 series, mainly to get more mainstream users testing the new features.

Also, I forgot to put this on my last post, but we got the place in North Melboune that we applied for! Fo shizzle my nizzle!

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I like my women, like I like my software

Discuss.

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I dragged myself out of bed at about 8am this morning. Needed to get there early for the GNOME miniconf. It was really awesome to actually put faces to the blogs of some of these GNOME guys, that I have been reading so much about on Planet GNOME.

Luis Villa started the morning off by talking about the issues of making a GNOME live-cd based on Ubuntu Linux, and what would happen if the Ubuntu guys suddenly started changing stuff, for example, stop packaging some of the top GNOME apps. We had a quick demo of the wobbly windows thing and then Robert Love stepped up and gave a bit of a demo on Beagle and F-Spot. These are two very awesome apps.

Beagle is for GNOME what Spotlight is for Mac. It also helps that the guy who wrote the indexing engine for Spotlight has now written the engine for Beagle. It allows you to search through anything on your machine, including emails, address book, IM’s, Blogs (using Liferea), files and heaps of other stuff. I think it’s still a bit rough, but it has a lot of potential. Also I think that beagle will become the new backend for Nat Friedman’s Dashboard.

F-Spot is another mono app (like Beagle), but is an all-in-one photo importing and cataloging system. I haven’t had much of a chance to play with it yet, but from what Robert Love was showing off, it looks pretty sweet.

Me, Timmy, Tuddy and Josh took the arvo off, had some lunch and played pool here at Burgmann College (where we are staying). Later, we went into the City (which is soooo dead) and had some Kebabs. Very unsatisfying. Don’t ever eat at one of the Ali Baba stores, you’ll be disappointed!

I’m going to take it easy tonight and maybe get to bed a little earlier tonight and go to the PHP presentation tomorrow morning.

This is us at Linux.conf.au

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