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Some of the Big T grads went to Christian’s Dad’s place for lunch. It’s called Aroma Cafe, on Queen St. Very nice.

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This is me doing a blowfish on the Innovation Centre machine room window

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Haven’t blogged for a while, so he’s a quick update of what’s been going on.
At work late tonight, helping out because of a function. It was supposed to be finished at 9pm, but it’s now 10:15pm and they’re still here. Let’s bring on the tear gas and tasers

We started getting pissed off with the builders across the lane from us, so we started hassling the council about it, and maybe something’s going to get done. I moved my webcam server home, and set up two cams outside our window, so at any time, I can see what they’re doing. You can check it out at http://andybotting.com/webcam. Whatever you do, don’t leave it running too long, it kills my bandwidth

My old man is going to salary sacrifice a new laptop for me. This is nice because it means that i’ll only have to pay about 52c in every dollar. I was tossing up between an IBM ThinkPad and an Apple 15″ PowerBook, but I think the PowerBook is going to be the choice. I set up a Wiki page on everything I could find about running Linux on the new hi-res (powerbook5,8 Oct 2005) model PowerBooks here. It seems that there are a couple of little issues (current kernels don’t have support for the ATA controller, AGP and the Gigabit Ethernet but can be patched), but is basically ok. I should be ordering it in 2 weeks time.

I broke the Segway at work (not sure how…) but it’s back today. They couldn’t tell me exactly what broke, but it was under warranty anyway. Looks like i’m going back to my old rotation at IP Voice next week. They’ve got plenty of work and need some more bodies, so I’m going back to help out.

Also, the fuckwits managing this company decided to Not go ahead with the graduate intake for 2006. This does mean that the grads who were promised jobs, and signed their contracts will now be sacked. The Age ran an article about it, and there is also a Whirlpool forum on the subject. If you’re wondering, Nelsie’s still got her spot for next year. Phew.

Jezza has done some terrific work on his new Melways frontend. You can now search for an address to bring up the melways map to fill your full brower window, and even switch to the corresponding Google Maps satellite image. It’s the best we’ve got until Google bring maps to Australia

… also, I found this which made me laugh.

Note to self: blog more often

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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 on a 100Mb link to the net. Rock on

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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 electronic keys, a black, a yellow and a red. Each one with a different profile on maximum driving and turning speed. I can’t wait until we belt this thing around Telstra dome late one night

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The guys at Canon kindly donated a couple of digital cameras to the centre. So here’s a pick of me and the guys I work with, amongst all the mess

Michael, Rob and Andy @ the Innovation Centre

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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. Davyd Madeley has created a summary of all the new stuff in GNOME 2.12 here.

From just reading this stuff, it reminds me how much GNOME rocks! I’m really glad that they seem to be switching to the new ClearLooks theme too. It’s a very snappy looking theme.

I have found blogs of two seperate people making ebuilds for it. Albert Hopkins and Raphaël Slinckx. It looks like Raphaël’s are much more complete.. but I think I might wait until it hits hardmasked in portage.

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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 end, I booted off the hard disk, and gave it a rm -fr /. That fixed it real good. Didn’t give me any trouble after that

Here’s some photos of Julz, Davo and me:

I found out today that my phone can take photos at 1280×960. I was suitably impressed, although the images still look a bit washed out. I had a play with videos too. They’re encoded in some 3gp format, which xine and mplayer can only half decode at the moment. Video works fine, but there is no codec for the audio yet. Realplayer/Helix player plays them fine, and apparently quicktime can do it too.

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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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