Complete Projects:
Build, test, and secure DNS server.
Build webserver with vhosts for production.
Build mail server for production.
Spam filter for comments section of website.
Pipelined Projects:
Perl module for DNS.
Build box for LAN gateway.
Hot and starting to dry, the Macquarie River running through the valley in a remote section, required engaging low range 4wd, river crossing, and about a 40 minute hike to find beauty and tranquility.
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Current Writings: Fly fishing the Guy Fawkes You know your onto something really special when you look down to your reel and you see a spinner hanging on for dear life in the gusty wind. I was standing bankside of the Guy Fawkes River, the sun was out...
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Power of the pipe Read on here.
From roaring river to sparsely spaced ponds
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shintara UNIX articles:
X on OpenBSD article
"The OpenBSD installer now asks if you want plan to run X. It seems that it sets up a basic template for you. As installed, I ran startx and was greeted by the friendly face of fwwm. I haven't installed OpenBSD for a couple of years now, but as I have noticed on other UNIX like operating systems XFree86 is no longer used, thus making configuration a whole lot easier for the X window system. If only X.Org was around when I used to use OpenBSD - configuration would have been so simple! The article has now been updated to reflect that it was written in February 2003 and doesn't apply to newer versions that use X.Org.
Keeping an eye on things:
Pro Angler 1/2wt Master: Awesome twig style fly rod, 7' length for those tight streams, loads like a dream with the ability to cast so delicately you dont even create a ripple.
Cooper STT Tires: Not even 5,000km's and I have found some cracks in the sidewalls, no hard driving either!
Sage XP 4wt: fly rod. Go out and buy one, you know you will love it!
Sage SLT 7wt: fly rod, its a little slow, maybe to slow for me?
Olympus SP 310: camera is producing great photos, a little bit too sharp, will try shooting in raw mode and see results. |
4 December 2006 New York, New York...! Its a crazy place, people walking around everywhere, getting from a shop front across the side walk is like undertaking an absurd mission. And the cab drivers, these guys are a breed of thier own, driving in a New York cab was an experience in itself - cutting in and out of lanes and constantly on the horn, that is the life and times of a New York cab driver!
Tour of Duty At 11.30am we were at ground zero, I was expecting it to have a much more erie feeling to it but that New York city crowd put an end to that thought from the moment I stepped out of the cab. People everywhere, tourists everywhere and construction work everywhere, after some photographs and reading some of the plaques we were of to Manhattan Mall. One thing I did notice on the way to Manhattan was a large cross near ground zero which was made from the metal structure that was once the former World Trade Centre, this definately was an image that stuck, pity I was in a speeding cab and unable to take a photo.
Shopping was next on the list, and Manhattan didnt live up to what I thought it would be, over inflated prices were on the card. A quick stop of at McDonalds for lunch revealed to me what I call the curse of super small burgers. Is it just me or has the size of the legendary Bic Mac decreased enormously over the last few years? Super size me huh!
2pm and a quick walk around to the Empire State building, the line to go inside was huge and went all the way around the corner. So I missed out on going to the top. Hit a few more shops and then we jumped in another cab and headed for the Statue of Liberty and only armed with my Olympus camera I didnt have the lens length to get a good shot of the statue. We jumped in another cab and headed for Canal St which was supposed to host some "dodgy" shopping... And dodgy shopping it was, everyone walking around with black plastic bags and fake Versace. I was browsing through what I thought was a stall on the sidewalk and all of a sudden the suit case closes and the lady runs of. I look behind me and a NYPD officer has pulled up - classic example of illegal trade! The officer dissapears and the stall magically re-appears.
We end up walking all the way from the intersection of 6th Ave and Canal St back to the car park at Delancey and Essex St's, the traffic was absurd, every couple of seconds a horn would beep, people were walking the streets by the thousands - half the time I was walking on the street as I couldnt make it through the side walk. It wasnt even 4pm on a Saturday afternoon, what an experience! Back on the road at 4.30pm and back in Connecticut at 7pm - the day trip was definately one to remember.
The anti-spam project
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