February 25, 2008 – 11:47 am
I’ve been doing some work with Amazon EC2 the last few days. An invaluable tool is the EC2UI firefox extension that Amazon have written. This provides you with a simple GUI inside the firefox chrome which makes it really easy to manipulate your EC2 instances. A few weeks ago Hardy moved to using firefox 3. [...]
February 8, 2008 – 11:48 am
I just discovered Vim has spell checking. No more having to manually spell check in mutt with ispell when writing emails, Hurray!! In your .vimrc file simply add setlocal spell spelllang=en_au Note: By default vim only installs en_us spell files. If you are running debian then there is a vim-spellfiles package. There is an ubuntu [...]
December 21, 2007 – 2:12 pm
It’s 15:11pm and there are only 11 tickets left for linux.conf.au. WARNING: If you have registered but haven’t gotten around to paying yet then you are going to miss out. So hop to it. Otherwise you are going to be a sad panda.
December 12, 2007 – 7:47 am
Its a sad day when one of the most open of standards bodies bows to corporate pressure. Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster Lift the cat who was amongst the pigeons up and put him back on his pedestal for now. (remove requirement on ogg for now) The W3C Video [...]
I took another step out of the wilderness today… Those who have know me for a while will know that up until recently I exclusively used linux virtual consoles (ie what CTRL-ALT-F1 gives you from within X) to do all my work except for browsing the web. Recently I stopped using them all together and [...]
Pia posting about Software freedom day, software freedom day online shop is up, reminded me about something I’ve been meaning to post for a while. When you send in the address to get your team’s t-shirts and goodies, make sure you get it right! Last year I helped pack all the goodies that we sent [...]
I use DSPAM to handle my spam checking and have been quite happy with it as it normally delivers >99.9% hit rate. In the last few weeks the amount of spam in my INBOX had been getting progressively worse to the point where I noticed no spam whatsoever was making its way into my spam [...]
