Monthly Archives: February 2006

iMac Intel vs iMac G5 booting

Posted on February 28, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

YouTube has a video showing a side by side comparison of booting a 17″ iMac Intel (left) vs 17″ iMac-PPC (right). Intel = 40 seconds, PPC = 98 seconds (There are claims that the video is faked. We will have … Continue reading →

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Blogging: Australian A+ list?

Posted on February 28, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

Frank Arrigo (MSDN Blogs) requests an Australian Bloggier A-List, and creates an *interesting reaction* The A+ list of Aussie bloggers [bleeding edge : Charles Wright] Aussie tech journalists want to game tech.memeorandum [cameron’s brain : Cameron Reilly] Australian Bloggers bruised … Continue reading →

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Broadband vs Pay TV connection

Posted on February 28, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

Snippets [1] This is the week where Roy Morgan research announced that for the first time, the number of Australians who have a broadband Internet connection at exceeded the number of Australians with a pay TV connection at home. Telstra … Continue reading →

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PHP TEST

Posted on February 28, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

A chat this morning brought us to the topic of “Does PHP run on staff.edfac?” I offered to test a few Hello-World scripts to see if it did; Hello World (PHP) Hello World (PHTML) Hello World (PHP3) The results were … Continue reading →

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This weeks links

Posted on February 27, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

Crash Course: The ABCs of WPA2 Security Computer First Aid Using Knoppix iTerm the alternative terminal emulation program for Mac OS X Australia Copyright Agency to schools: pay Internet licenses or shut down the net! Copyright makes web a turn-off … Continue reading →

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we have lift off…

Posted on February 24, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

Well it must be Wednesday 😉 The new Edfac web site has gone live yesterday Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:56:53 +1100 From: Anna McCredie Subject: we have lift off… To: education-staff@unimelb.edu.au Dear all Just a brief announcement to say … Continue reading →

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InterMapper – Part II

Posted on February 24, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

Earlier this month I was migrating Intermapper to Linux when I ran into a problem. The good folk from support@dartware.com have got back to me with the following; intermapper.sh is a shell script that first tries the following: 1. Look … Continue reading →

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RFC 1149

Posted on February 23, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

It was a long time ago I was stuffing about with this one; by popular request RFC 1149 – A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers Network Working Group D. Waitzman Request for Comments: 1149 BBN … Continue reading →

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Eudora v7.x part II

Posted on February 22, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

Back around the 22-Nov-2005 I was investigating the licensing for Eudora v7.x. It would appear that we have now received a licence code to unlock v7.x and it was published to SOFTDIST on 15-Feb-2006 (did anyone see an announcement?) “\\pv-its-softdist\softdist\Apps\Eudora\Eudora … Continue reading →

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Boing Boing – 1337

Posted on February 22, 2006 by visibleprocrastinations

The FeedBurner feed for BoingBoing was at 1337 k readers … how LEET 😉 [1.] Boing Boing [Boing Boing] [2.] Boing Boing – syndicated content [Feed Burner]

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