Patrick's Soapbox

If you're thinking about whether you should get a fast laptop, or a slower laptop and fast desktop, you're crazy. Just get the fast laptop (and the cheapest desktop for connecting to your array of hard drives). Seriously. Desktops suck....

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Well I thought it was about time I installed PHP5, seeing as it is at RC3. I've installed it on darren (the linux server that doesn't do much) - and the pretty phpinfo() page can now be seen there. At...

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Well I registered for a tunnel, and got myself a /48. It's 2001:388:c02a/48. There are only two addresses allocated from this at this stage, 2001:338:c02a:1::1 (carl.patrick.geek.nz. Or will be once ZoneEdit is up and running.) and 2001:338:c02a:1::2 (ginger.patrick.geek.nz, my iBook....

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Today I: Had work until 7am, so I did that. Took my iBook in, again. (That's my fifth visit to MagnumMac this year alone. That's since 5 Jan 2004. Yes, you read right.) Had a look at WPS. Got them...

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The first fault I had with my iBook (first mentioned here) - basically the weird crashes and garbled display has reared it's ugly head again. This will likely mean another replacment logic board, also covered under warranty. I mean seriously,...

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I just found out the hard way that with 75 tabs open in safari, it's a bad thing if one or more of them decide to use the QuickTime plugin. Yeah I was annoyed. Good ol' History though. 75 tabs....

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I handed in my (11 pages including cover page) ELCM assignment, at 10 to 12. In plenty of time. I even burned them a nice copy of the assignment (a 77kb word file, a few hundred bytes of HTML and...

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I bought a second PCI NIC yesterday (Being only NZD$16), mainly because it was cheap but also because somehow the cable modem has just stopped routing recently. Over the USB->Ethernet dongle I had I would have to unplug the usb...

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Howdy howdy howdy Saw Undercover Brother on DVD w/ Sean this evening, funny movie.No INFO214 lecture today - lecturer was sick. Don't blame him. Horrible day.Got iBook back. Me happy.Want to change my mail server now, but I don't think...

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I've changed my desk layout again. I could really do with an LCD monitor to use at the desk, then maybe I could use an external keyboard with a bit more ease. How I have it now doesn't 100% suit...

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On the topic of the VUWSA website I moved the VUWSA website to the new provider today, and helped change DNS over. I'll go in monday to sort out the Clubs pages. On the topic of converting Publisher files to...

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And by that I mean, of my latest cds, 8 need to be pushed onto lila's music store (which would add another 1.6gb or so) Some useless stats about \lila\audio: Size: 37.1GB (39,885,990,312 bytes) Size on Disk: 37.1GB (39,900,921,856 bytes)...

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Serial SCSI. Now that pingu is up to 200gb of storeage, when that fills up I'm going to have to go to something other than ATA-133. SATA looks like the more likely. And a new power supply too probably. Or...

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