…for a news article linked to at eight in the morning, to still be the same fucking article fourteen hours later???
Fuck you, Sydney Morning Herald.
Archive for February, 2007
is it too much to ask
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007urk
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007…not only did the port make me fuzzy, it made me sleep through this (note, this link no longer goes to the article it did when I linked it, and does not go to the article the URL implies, because the Sydney Morning Herald has the integrity of a drug addicted prostitute)
My damage so far only consists of a couple of broken tiles on the carport roof – however, when I noticed them I had no idea it was storm damage, so I didn’t look at the roof of the house. I’ll have to give it a looking over when I get home.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
you know, some types of alcohol make your head spin, some make you queasy.
Port just makes everything wonderfully fuzzy.
The difference between an example and a tutorial
Sunday, February 11th, 2007Gah, trying to find decent Eclipse RCP tutorials is a painful, painful process. There’s a lot of articles out there, but very few actual tutorials. Currently GEF (the Graphical Editing Framework) is the particular part I’m interested in. Every “tutorial” for it I’ve come across somewhere has been nothing more than an overview of the concepts, a completed example you can download, and some notes on specific portions of the example.
I just want enough of the first steps that I can then start digging through examples and reference documentation. I’m not asking for a 30 hour lesson where you build a complete CAD application from scratch – just a simple example of going from nothing to displaying and editing a single shape on the screen is all I ask.
An editor for a Point object or something…Once I’m that far, then I’ll be able to figure out how everything else fits in.
One more thing: a Tutorial is not “In Depth” if the only form it exists in is as PowerPoint slides. If you’re going to publish PowerPoint slides instead of an actual article, at least have the decency to include a recording of your talk….gah!
Happiness is…
Saturday, February 10th, 2007…a neighbour’s unsecured wireless access point with 1.5/256 ADSL.
It’s terrible, I know – but I had used up the 200MB on my 3 NetConnect card, and wasn’t really enjoying the prospect of paying $1 per meg after that.
Besides, it’s only until Telstra gets their act together and does whatever they need to do to make my ADSL2+ connection work.
From what I can tell, I should expect between 8 – 12 mbps once that’s up – as I’m between 3 and 3.5 kms from the exchange.
Goodbye Netspace…
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Well, I’ve finally decided to go ahead and upgrade to ADSL2+. I originally planned to do it the second my exchange was enabled. That happened in June, but various things got in the way so it took me until now to get round to it.
That means ditching Netspace as an ISP after about 3.5 years. Netspace aren’t a bad ISP, but they really haven’t offered anything special over their competitors for a couple of years now, and they still don’t offer ADSL2+ yet. Though they at least have it on the roadmap now instead of sticking their fingers in their ears and saying “lalalalalala”.
In any case, I canceled my Netspace account – and have signed up with TPG, which means that until the process is complete I have to make do with my 3 NetConnect card at 384kps with a 200Meg quota.
It could be worse I guess, I could be on dialup.
However, TPG have been sending me a flurry of status updates all day so it shouldn’t be too much longer before I’m up and running with ridiculous amounts of downstream bandwidth, and most importantly 1Mb of upstream – maybe more if TPG support Annex-M.