I’ve written before about my thoughts on social networking websites and the data you want to give them. What I basically said is that they can do whatever the hell they like with the data provided that I’m keeping a careful watch on what data I give them. If I consciously approve it, it should [...]
I discovered earlier today that through my trial ipv6 access I am using mostly ipv6 to access Google services. This made me wonder: just how much of my home network’s communication with the outside world is through ipv6 compared with ipv4? I don’t have any results yet, but this is how I’m measuring it using [...]
December 23, 2009 – 22:20
Currently the protest against Senator Conroy’s Internet filter is happening in a vacuum. This vacuum is occupied by thousands upon thousands of outraged Internet-savvy computer users. Unfortunately these people constitute only a small percentage of the overall voting population of Australia, and not all of them are prepared to vote based only on an Internet [...]
November 19, 2009 – 15:11
After some experimenting I’ve managed to get a semi-permanent 115kb/s SLIP connection between my main Debian server and a 486 running BSD. By semi-permanent, I mean as soon as there’s a power cycle I’m going to have to run out with a laptop with DHCP server, a crossover cable and some patience to make it [...]
November 10, 2009 – 22:59
My ISP has been doing a lot of work in the IPv6 department recently and amongst all their IPv6 offerings they have just started a trial for ADSL customers to run a dual IPv4/IPv6 PPP connection. They also run a broker to provide an IPv6 tunnel over IPv4, but this native solution is much neater. [...]
I have a hypothesis regarding the comparison of the ability of punning folk. Amongst those who pun actively, everybody is able to produce bad puns to a similar level of ability. It becomes instinctive enough to search for puns that you can come up with poor (often self-referential) puns virtually on demand. This means that [...]
September 29, 2009 – 13:11
Today I found myself needing to draw both a sine wave and a triangle wave accurately for a diagram in Inkscape. It turns out that all the required functionality is included, but you have to do a little work yourself. Here are my findings… The tool is called Function Plotter and can be found under [...]
September 27, 2009 – 22:47
So I bought a new mobile phone. The few months I spent without one have been excellent. For the first time since I first got a phone back in 2004 my electronic communications have been entirely on my terms. It is satisfying to know that you can go about your business doing exactly what you [...]
By now it’s common knowledge amongst Starcraft fans awaiting the release of Starcraft II that offline LAN support has been officially dropped from the game, citing warm fuzzy reasons like better-integrated community interaction or something which equally fails to hide the fact that they’re worried about things like Hamachi and piracy at LANs causing them [...]