January 20, 2009 – 1:40 pm
This time last year was a very exciting time at linux.conf.au 2008. The conference organisers had arranged for 100 XO laptops to be given away to conference attendees. The XOs came with the following message attached. Please do something wonderful with this XO, or inspire someone else and pass it on. I was fortunate enough [...]
March 19, 2008 – 12:07 pm
There is currently a bug in firefox 3 which causes it to crash with an XError BadAloc when you go to any page hosted on howtoforge. This seems to be related to the image at http://howtoforge.com/themes/htf_glass/images/bg_header_bottom_left15.png. I suggest you don’t click on that link Apparently this image is 10,000 pixels wide. It looks like this [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bridge and VLAN support has improved dramatically under Ubuntu and probably Debian as well since I last looked into it. once upon a time to create a bridge linked to a VLAN interface you would have to do horrible things like. auto eth0 ifconfig eth0 inet manual pre-up /sbin/vconfig set_name_type VLAN_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD || true auto vlan7 [...]
