http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress Another day in the life of Andy Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:01:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had everything working quite well on my Macbook Pro (Core 2 Duo) with Ubuntu Feisty, but due to some badness from the shitty, shitty ATI fglrx driver, I couldn't use Gutsy with everything working. The new kernel in Gutsy moved from the SLAB allocator to the SLUB allocator. (Btw, I ... http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/finally-getting-everything-to-work-on-gutsy/ I am blogging from my Internet tablet. Nice. http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/blogging-from-my-internet-tablet/ About time, Skype guys! We've only been waiting for ages for the Linux client to catch up to the Mac and Windows versions to get video. I have this feeling that it's been brought on my the new Nokia N810 internet tablet to be released shortly this month. The N800 (which ... http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/skype-for-linux-finally-with-video/ Last weekend, we went paintballing at Hot Shots in Anakie to celebrate the fact that someone is crazy enough to want to marry him :) hehe Playing in Anakie was great because of the bush setting, and I would recommend looking the Hot Shots guys up if you wanted to do ... http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/matts-bucks-day/ Incredible game, Geelong annihilating Port Adelaide by 119 points. I believe it's the largest winning margin in the history of the AFL/VFL. It was probably the best game I have ever seen these boys play. Let's make it back-to-back next season. GO CATS! http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/geelong-afl-premiers-2007/ After a close (too close..) win over Collingwood, Geelong have advanced into the Grand Final. As you can see, I managed to score some tickets from the random ballot for Geelong members. I took a trip down to the Cattery (Geelong) and it's really exciting to see the all the blue ... http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/blue-and-white-fever/ http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/carlton-draught-now-with-geek-questions/ I splashed out a bit, and bought myself a new toy. It's the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, running Linux. I'm still getting used to it, but it seems quite good so far. More to come.. http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/my-new-shiny-toy-the-nokia-n800/ I finally got all the photos together from me, Stretch, Jay and Eric. I've uploaded them into Google's Picasa. http://picasaweb.google.com/andybotting/NZTrip http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/nz-extreme-tour-photos-now-online/ Started our NZ holiday on Saturday morning, leaving from Melbourne at 6:40am. We landed in Queenstown, NZ at about 11:30am and started to check the place out. Andy, Jay, Laurelle, Ewan and Stretch in Queenstown. The Remarkables behind. First stop was some lunch at Fergburger. Some very nice gormet-style burgers, and ... http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/extreme-tour-nz/