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Cool: Tina Wallmann has won Zoo Weekly’s Beach Girl Comp 2007 [http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=84809760&blogID=248227903] [http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=84809760&blogID=248227903] Congratulations! I’m not normally a Zoo Weekly
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One full week to go before I’m back to the grind (something I’m not looking forward to, but I have to eat) I’ve at least managed to get something different in this time – a visit to the new Modern Art Gallery [http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/
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It wasn’t half bad, actually – got to catch up with Paul and his missus among other relatives I don’t see too frequently. As usual, the food is plentiful and good. Sleeping on the couch (as per tradition for me) was not so good and my back is absolutely
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A few things: Life: * Spending Christmas with the family this year. As is tradition, I’ll be sleeping on the couch/floor/other non-bed flat surface. * Dad is not well, unfortunately. We’ll find out more next week from the specialist. * Organized a fortnight off work starting new year. I’
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If you’re a user of my Fedora repository you should probably read this. Really. Unfortunately, due to a combination of damaged kernel and dodgy hard disk on my build system, the rsync master repository (on said build system) got slightly corrupted and several RPMs within the Fedora Core 6
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I’ve been a little busy of late – much of it at work and miscellaneous other-life bits and pieces. There has been a few things happening. To follow on from my last entry, I didn’t get scummvm / stella fixed, alas. However scummvm is now in Fedora Extras, so I
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My Fedora RPM repository has been updated for Fedora Core 6, now that defender has settled down and ceased panicking. For those not using it already, wander over to my Packages [http://www.enlartenment.com/packages.php] page for more information. Unfortunately for the Atari 2600 and SCUMM engine buffs,
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I now have Fedora Core 6 on defender, my desktop PC. The DVD image took a while but worked flawlessly. However the combination of it and the old NVIDIA Xorg driver ensured I was in console mode most of that night (Thursday) – fixed now though. Now I have a rather
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For those folks who follow it, Fedora Core 6 is out tomorrow (or the day after depending on your time zone). For me, this also means rebuilding my repositories over the weekend in preparation for folks (including me!) wanting my packages. However, I will need to make some changes again
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Politics (sort of) This method of verifiable voting [http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~rivest/Rivest-TheThreeBallotVotingSystem.pdf]looks very interesting, if a little complicated for it’s intended users (no such issues here in Australia, especially if you’ve ever seen our Senate voting forms). Ron Rivest [http://en.wikipedia.org/
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…here’s a desktop screenshot. [https://i0.wp.com/www.enlartenment.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/oct2006screen.jpg] I’ve been running GNOME for who knows how long now – thought about KDE (nah) and Fluxbox (almost..) but stuck with what I know best. It just Works. I’ve also