August 31st, 2008 §
After a day or so of waiting for stuff to compile (<3 emerge, hasn't failed me yet) I have a working box, with xfce4 and that. So far I'm really like gentoo, everything has been easy to setup, and once you become patient and wait for things to compile it's really nice.
It's good having only the applications you need, and not any other junk
August 31st, 2008 §
Harrison has showed me CHKD which has made me even more happier with my camera. CHDK is a firmware enhancement that was turn my camera into something even more better. I can now play games on my camera, and run scripts that make beautiful HDR images so much easier. I used a script to take 25 photos on the teddy you see to your right, and patched it together using photomatix. It even tells me the percentage of battery I had, something which was an annoyance on the old firmware.
I really like the new firmware, however I’m sure they can find more fun things to do with the cameras.
The installation is really simple, find a card reader, plop the two files onto the card, re insert card, go into play mode, press the mode button, press firmware update, put your hands on your head, spin around three times yelling “IMAFAG” and flap your arms like a chicken.
It’s that simple.
August 26th, 2008 §
I tried it on a few other sites and domains I own, and one of them got $900 USD, which is fairly nice, for such a basic site, with nothing to fancy.
The site is fun to play around with and test out domain names, however it’s estimates are fairly out their IMOH. It’s nice to think that your site is worth that much. Supposably if I were to put ads on here, I would get 0.40$ USD a day, however I know that won’t happen.
Anyway, start saving up to buy this domain if you want it :P.
August 23rd, 2008 §
“As a key element of its plan for the future, the Australian Government has committed to provide up to $4.7 billion and to consider necessary regulatory changes to facilitate the roll-out of a new open access, high-speed, fibre-based broadband network, providing downlink speeds of at least 12 megabits per second to 98 per cent of Australian homes and businesses.”
I’m all for Australia have a good Broadband network, but I have two problems at the moment. Who will own this network and what about international links.
At the moment I can see Telstra being paid by the government to setup this network, and give them the rights to charge huge amounts of cash for other companies to use it. It’s currently $80 for 25GB on 1.5MBit, which for me seems way to much money, considering the internet isn’t owned or run by them. They are making profit out of others work, correct? (and for your information it costs $150 a gigabyte after you go over your limit)
It’s all great giving every household 12mbit down links, until you realize that, every household with 12mbit will wanna access and download from places off shore. Currently we struggle to provide internet over these links as is, and giving people more bandwidth to use that you don’t have is just bad practice.
There have been many cases where one fiber break offshore have caused our whole national network to run at 5kbs, with epic lag. This problem needs to be fixed up.
That is all.
August 23rd, 2008 §
Today I went to Dick Smith and bought four 470uF 25V caps. I quickly desoldered the four caps and soldered the four new caps onto the board. Guess what? It worked. The modem booted up fine, without going into it’s endless loop of red flashing lights.
The total restore cost me $2.20, and now I have 4 backup modems.
