I hung back at work to score a couple of beers and some nice finger food
Jeremy, Rob and Andy @ the IC
I’m also getting close to finishing my webcam server. You should be able to see me (in the store room) on the cam at batman.andybotting.com. Everybody’s favourite telco is hosting this box [...]
… you recieve a plaque with your name on it
Although, I thought mine was kinda lacking something, so I added it in myself.
This is a photo of where I have been working currently. The store room. The advantage of this is that nobody can find you to harass you to do stuff for [...]
I was just reading on Slashdot about the new Google IM service, called Google Talk which is due to be announced tomorrow. They’re using the open source Jabber protocol, which is fantastic because this means that anyone on any system can use it on any client the supports Jabber! You rock Google!
How to get on:
Username: [...]
Earlier this week, we got a Segway at work. Here is an action shot:
Andy on the Segway
These things are amazing to ride. They have some incredible gyroscopic electronics which keep this thing upright… and they also go at about 20 km/h, which doesn’t sound like much, but feels very quick. It comes with three [...]
I haven’t blogged in about three weeks, which is pretty slack. The major thing to happen within that time is that I have moved to another group at work. I’m now working at the Big-T Innovation Centre, down at Docklands. Coolest place i’ve ever worked
What this post is really about is GNOME 2.12. [...]
I have been using LogWatch for a while now and I have been very impressed. It sends me a daily email (at about 3am) summarising the important parts of the logs that were generated throughout the day. It was actually LogWatch that tipped me off that something was not quite right when my server was [...]
Ok, it was my own stupidity, but somebody logged onto my box yesterday through the clamav account which was used for my mail scanning and filtering. I get an email every day from the logwatch cron job which gives me a summary of what had happened throughout the day, and in this case, I just [...]
I had an amazing sandwich experience today.
It was about the only good thing to happen today. Damn Solaris 9 was giving me the shits. While trying to install it, I booted off the CD, and it just stopped at the point “Searching for upgradable Solaris root device…” and just stopped. For an HOUR! In the [...]
Some time ago, in true Team Hardcore spirit, Mick put up a sign on the Honours room door.
It has a picture of me on it, and it said:
The Andy Botting Memorial Room
Mick: you know how we have that Andy Botting Memorial Room sign up on the honours room door
Andy: hehe
Andy: you told me
Andy: i still [...]
After recently getting my insanely fast ADSL connected last week, I wanted to rebuild Gentoo on my desktop machine. I found the document Installing Gentoo 2005.0: Stage 1 NPTL on a Stage 3 Tarball on the Gentoo forums and thought it sounded quite interesting. The document outlines step-by-step how To Build a Fast and Bulletproof [...]