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Leon writes about giving a stranger $1 to help him get a train ticket. Recently I saw something similar, a lady was giving balloons to children in the Bourke St Mall in Melbourne just after 9PM. I asked her about this (I couldn’t see a logo on the balloons and wondered how she was making […] Bruce has written an interesting post about wireless encryption [1]. His main ideas seem to be that it’s nice to provide emergency net access for random people, that attempting to secure a wireless network only causes more problems when (not if) it is broken, and that your machines which are mobile need to be secure […] It is not uncommon to run a Linux system with a kernel that was compiled for another distribution. One reason for doing this is the difficulty in compiling and testing a kernel to make sure it will do what you require. It’s not THAT difficult for someone who knows what they are doing, but if […] I have just stayed at the Victoria Hotel Melbourne. I booked it through www.WotIf.com and paid ~$110 per night instead of the list price of $186 per night. The location is great (little Collins St near Swanston St). It’s a short walk from most things that are in the central city area and the nearest […] Some people have been asking about the weather in Melbourne in late-January in terms of what to wear for Linux.Conf.Au. It is probably impossible to predict weather for a particular day this far ahead. But predicting a range for the week is not difficult. I think that you should expect at least one day that […] A few days ago I stayed in an apartment at the Oaks on Market [1] hotel which I booked through www.WotIf.com. The WotIf price was $159 per night – the list price was $376 per night. It was possible to get extra beds for $30 each per night if you wanted to get more people […] At the end of the month we are having linux.conf.au (one of the best Linux conferences in the world) in Melbourne. Here is some quick advice for people who are attending: If you have not yet booked a hotel then www.wotif.com is a good option to try, it’s a hotel booking web site that is […] Are there any active LUGs in Singapore? A friend in Singapore is about to set up his laptop to dual-boot and would like the possibility of getting some direct help if it ends up not booting Windows… I looked at the Linux.org page listing LUGs in Singapore [1]. There are two entries, one has a […] Military.com reports that the UK government will no longer use the term War On Terror [1]. Sir Ken Macdonald (the UK’s chief prosecutor) said that “terrorists” are criminals and need to be responded to in that way. This of course is the only logical and sensible thing to do. Soldiers who are taken prisoner are […] I’ve been thinking about the comment policy for my blogs. I have started deleting comments when people subscribe to comments and use fake email addresses (I get the bounces and it’s annoying). Also I am deleting comments that don’t make much sense or which don’t address the topic of a post. Some people seem to […] |
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