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  • I recently purchased a 2nd hand emac for my sister as I am sick of having to keep her Windows 98 PC running and I dont really want to encourage her to continue down the Windows route, its just a path that will be paved with more support nightmares for me.

    I decided to write this review based on the experiences that I am having setting it up for her. And they are good so far.

    I hate CRT moniotrs and to be honest using this one is not making me love them again, but I am a nitpicky type of person who likes things just “so”. As far as CRTs go however this one is great.

    Mac OS X 10.4 : It runs surprisingly well with little to no slowdown now this machine is very humble in its specs – PPC 7450 (g4) running at 700Mhz along with 512MB of RAM. To be perfectly honest it does all the webby and officy stuff that you could want and it does them well, it does not get too much in the way of you doing your job. (Altough text input can be a tad slow in Camino).

    Sound: The speakers produce a really nice volume with decent clarity a lot better than I was expecting (a lot better than my ahlah cheapie 2.1 set I picked up for $30AUD when my last set gave up the ghost.).

    Annoyances: the HOME and END keys do not work as expected in text input boxes in webpages, toolbars etal 🙁

  • Setting up mrtg to monitor the DLink G604T adsl modem/router was a painful excercise.

    It appears that the correct info in the mrtg.conf file is for nas0, none of the other detected interfaces seem to reflect accurate usage.

    If its not the SNMP interface 3 for you it might be another one – but it should still be called nas0.

    M


    ### Interface 3 >> Descr: 'nas0' | Name: '' | Ip: '' | Eth: '' ###

    Target[192.168.0.1_3]: 3:public@192.168.0.1:
    SetEnv[192.168.0.1_3]: MRTG_INT_IP="" MRTG_INT_DESCR="nas0"
    MaxBytes[192.168.0.1_3]: 1250000
    Title[192.168.0.1_3]: Traffic Analysis for 3 --
    PageTop[192.168.0.1_3]:
    <h1>Traffic Analysis for 3 -- </h1>
    <div id="sysdetails">
    <table>
    <tr>
    <td>System:</td>
    <td> in </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>Maintainer:</td>
    <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>Description:</td>
    <td>nas0 </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>ifType:</td>
    <td>ethernetCsmacd (6)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>ifName:</td>
    <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>Max Speed:</td>
    <td>1250.0 kBytes/s</td>
    </tr>

    </table>
    </div>

  • Free Speech – The Expression of Reason – Family Entertainment group campaigns against anti-family cartoons.

    Interesting article about some parents group in the US trying to have anime banned, because its anti-family.

    Anime is NOT for kids, its a form of adult entertainment – banning it is not the answer – keeping it out of kids hands – like alcohol and cigarettes is.

    Bloody seppo’s.

  • AppleInsider | Speed of Apple Intel dev systems impress developers

    It seems that the speed of the Intel x86 based Developer Macintoshes is nothing to be sneezed at – with fast booting and suprisingly fast emulation for non intel based binaries. 😮

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  • If you like me are forgetful and cannot remember the names of come commands a useful one is iptraf this command originated on one of th BSD’s (FreeBSD should my memory serve me correctly) and it will display the traffic wandering through your ethernet devices. It should be functional under most recent linux distro’s (was on the gentoo box I just looked at) and failing that you should be able to download and compile the source from the IPTraf homepage.

    It was most handy to find when I was looking for a tool to monitor the traffic of one of our linux based routers. I was hoping to see that eth0 was not being overly utilised.

    So if you are looking at something to monitor ethernet traffic on your eth0 eth1 or any other ethernet interface iptraf is the tool for you.

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  • Inside the big switch: the iPod and the future of Apple Computer : Page 1

    Ars has an interesting piece that seems to indicate a potential reason why apple would switch to intel inside.

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  • It seems to be rumoured on the web that SONY Entertainment are the hold up preventing Australian users from being able to have access to the iTunes Music store.

    In response to this i suggest that people CEASE buying Sony products.

    I have and will encourage people to not buy sony products.

    Allow me to end this with sony are scum dont buy from them. I want legal downloads to shove on my iPod.

    M

  • *YAY* Another suspected terrorist attack.

    When will the violence stop already? Its stupid – some extremeist fool has decided to blow some civilians up which only causes other fools to act harshly to other innocents who follow an unperverted or at least less perverted religion of the same name with very differing tenents.

    Mad props to the families of any victims, may they find solace needed.

    May violence not perpetuate violence and may the extremists (on both sides of the fence) find their source of recruits dried up.

    God does NOT need us to fight his battles with violence for him – he is only the creater and sustainer of the universe – he has given us the free will to serve him – or to ignore him this unfortunatly allows us to destroy each other, may he fullfil his plan and purpose with this Earth that the violence may cease.

  • Ubuntu Forums – HOWTO: Autostart Folding at Home at startup

    Useful page on getting Folding at Home (http://folding.stanford.edu) running on Ubuntu.

    It works for Hoary as well as Warthog. I really should get off my backside and make a package up.

  • bit-tech.net | Real Wood iPod by ZapWizard

    A seriously sweet modification to the ipod – replacement of the plastic cover with wood. Real genuine biological wood from a tree wood.

    Simply amazing stuff.

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