Monthly Archives: February 2009

OOPS! It wasn’t me, I promise (?)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

“each little whale, know how to fail take it from me”

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I want a dinosaur bone couch too!

Posted on February 27, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

a collection of soft interior objects inspired by dinosaur bones material: rubber-coated foam — sayaka yamamoto • living with dinosaurs

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The Great Australian Firewall bites the dust?

Posted on February 26, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Some good news on the ridiculous Great Australian Firewall front; how about we redirect the money to rebuilding after the brushfires and floods – it would be a far better use for the $ The Government’s plan to introduce mandatory … Continue reading →

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BSOD – IBM ThinkPad T41 – irq_not_less_or_equal

Posted on February 25, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Today’s project is an IBM ThinkPad T41 running Windows XP Pro SP3 generating a BSOD on start up. Blue Screen (BSOD) irq_not_less_or_equal “This Stop message indicates that a kernel-mode process or driver attempted to access a memory address to which … Continue reading →

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Victorian Bushfire Information Resources

Posted on February 25, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

A collation of resources that have been scatter across my recent fire related posts and tweets in a rather disorganised manner; Victorian Bushfire Information Line 1800 240 667 If you have evacuated from a fire area it is vital that … Continue reading →

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Red duck curry (kaeng ped pett yang)

Posted on February 24, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Mix coconut milk, red curry paste, lychee, pineapple and roast duck. YUMMO! Cooked this one up for Saturday night. If eating with children use more coconut milk, less fish sauce and a few more lychees. Kaeng ped pett yang (red … Continue reading →

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New Adobe Acrobat 0-day in the wild

Posted on February 23, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Over the weekend SANS posted the details of a new 0-day vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat; … There is a new Acrobat 0-day in the wild. They say you can avoid it by turning off Javascript inside of your Adobe Acrobat … Continue reading →

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This weeks links (2009-02-22)

Posted on February 22, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Australian character A very interesting point from Jim Darby (a sub-editor at The Age, and a CFA volunteer for 15 years currently as First Lieutenant with the Mount Macedon Fire Brigade); I suppose there are some similarities between us and … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001 breaks Perl

Posted on February 19, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001 breaks Perl; Perl breakage only occurs if you’re running Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), you’re using the Perl distro baked into the OS, and you’ve updated the distro via CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), … Continue reading →

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Let’s all just agree robots are cool!

Posted on February 19, 2009 by visibleprocrastinations

“Let’s all just agree robots are cool!” The Galvatrons – Robots are Cool Why are robots cool? I asked the boys: Why are robots cool? “Robots shouldn’t be cool… but they are!” exclaims Condor. The fact that the band’s name, … Continue reading →

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