Archive for November, 2006
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006Quiet week in the 'cottage.
Phase 1 of the de-installation of Bigpond as our ISP: Internode, all the way! Added ADSL via Internode: the highest quality Aussie-owned ISP in Australia, to the home network. Once Telstra Wholesale get their act together, the next step is 8Mbit/s. It seems that Telstra has not correctly provisioned their IT [...]
Self, Inc
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006In July this year, Mike Seyfang, (currently battling short-sighted politicians in South Australia in a medium they don't understand); welcomed me to "Self, Inc".
Today I created my first invoice using SQL-Ledger. After some quick learning of LaTeX; and re-learning of basic accounting rules - it's all go!
On the SQL-Ledger side: it is an Open-source ERP [...]
Acrobat, Canberra, Microsoft
Monday, November 13th, 2006Having presented for Adobe over the past 8 years, I get a little touchy when someone attacks technical presenters. It's like being a part of a fraternity. Round up the wagons!
Demonstrating software: the collection of skillz are not taught by Toastmasters. Nor most Presentation Trainers. It is a set of unique techniques, that are generally [...]
VoIP is probably easier than I thought
Friday, November 10th, 2006Churn to Internode Issue in our household is the nGb/month - not mGb/second. Whilst Internode has yet to install ADSL+ into our exchange, I am happy to wait for 'em, and rid outselves of Bigmuddle/Bigpuddle.
Purchase Nodephone service, and get a "incoming" phone number
Install Asterisk on our Debian server
Install a Softphone, maybe buy an ATA (or [...]
Notes from the the Web
Friday, November 10th, 2006As per yesterday's post, I am attempting to live outside desktop applications.
Notes
Signed up for Google Apps for Your Domain. As I am entering a "micro-business", I really don't want to set up all the infrastructure. I hope Documents, Spreadsheets and soon GoogleSharepoint (formerly known as JotSpot) will flow into these custom apps soon.
VoIP. Interesting thing [...]
Living inside Firefox
Thursday, November 9th, 2006As most of my life is inside Google, and the Google Reader rocks - it's time to see if I can live inside the browser. Turned off Vienna as my RSS reader, and AppleMail is Email. Installed the Mac Google notifier.
Speaking of Google Reader, where the freak is the search in this app?
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Parallels Idleness
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Post cup noodling around doing not much at all and decided to download the trial version of Parallels Workstation for Debian Linux. After some aptitude fixing packages that were not installed; finally managed to get Parallels booting.
Next step: attempt to get the X11 appearing from the client application (installed on the Debian server) to [...]
Melbourne Cup 2006
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Go Delta Blues. Up $237.00
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Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.
Intel Mac: Acrobat 8 Distiller Performance
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006A comment from Dan on Distiller 7 vs. 8 Performance over on Accelerate your Mac! To summarise: a 463Mb .ps file Distills in a third of the time.
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Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8
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Flags of Our Fathers
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Liam and I returned from the new Clint Eastwood directed movie, Flags of Our Fathers.
It is less physically intense than Saving Private Ryan, as it tells the stories of the men surrounding the raising of the US Flag over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945.
The movie capably tells this story; and to a [...]
