Journey's End

Safety fail

Apparently only the hosts need safety screens

Cheers,

Steve

Dear Steve Conroy,

You can’t be serious.

You wants to filter all Internet connections now, without the option of opting out?! You want every Australian to be on a list so you can see who is “naughty” and who isn’t?!

You can’t be serious.

You wants to filter all illegal …

For shame Dr Hearnden

"...Why should small business take a hit for a public health measure?" -- Dr Hearnden

I am amazed a doctor of all people would utter such capitalistic remark.How can a doctor question whether or not it is in the business' interest to improve public health?

Businesses derive their income from …

Some people are going to hate me for this

But you can get the current function's name by using:

sys._getframe().f_code.co_name

Seems to work alright for debugging purposes. See the link embedded in the title for the origins and 3 other methods.

Cheers,

Steve

Electronics, it gets the heart pumping

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sentientintelligence/2917367153/ "photo sharing")

There is it, the new current limited H-bridge for my team's SUMO entry. Put it together this afternoon, and will be mounted on a piece of perspex (which I forgot to bring home) and then mounted on the robot.

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Congrats to aday AND pseudonym

Live long and prosper!

Cheers,

Steve

A relatively pain free Linux/OS X VNC setup

Ever since I got my 2nd monitor, I been using VNC to work on my laptop. Leopard's inbuilt VNC server isn't really VNC compliant, and has many issues when used with a normal VNC client. I have found Vine server to be an excellent replacement. The client side is a …

MacNQC, RCX2 and Lego Mindstorm

Been playing around with my LEGO RIS2.0 kit I got for my birthday. Its great!

Some tips for getting it to all work under OS X Tiger:

1. Read the README file and download the firmware for the RCX as it will be needed before any programs can be loaded …

iwconfig not setting essid?

If iwconfig wlan0 essid blah is seemingly not working when connecting to a open wireless network, then try

2. iwconfig wlan0 essid blah

3. iwconfig wlan0 key open

4. iwconfig wlan0 enc off

The above seems to work for me by turning off encryption. It would appear with encryption enabled, iwconfig won't work …

grub, xfs, debian

Running grub-install with a XFS partition will likely fail - there is a reason lilo is used when XFS is root! The issue is grub-install creates the stage files in /boot/grub, which grub then expects to find when it accesses the disk directly using its own file system drivers. For …

R18+, do want

Perhaps I am naive, but I expect those people in Government to have some resemblance of intelligence and be able to apply this very useful thing called logic. Michael Atkinson obviously isn't one such person. His recent reply to the demand for R18+ classification for Electronic Games [1] demonstrates a …

Cost of leadership

There is a lot of complaining over the Federal Government’s various schemes to reduce our carbon emission. Some of these are valid concerns, yet others are nothing more than short-sighted yapping of the unwashed. Here is a typical example of such a thing:

“if Australia cuts or carbon emissions …

unoffical libfg repository

I have set up an unofficial git respository for libfg patches and new swig generated python interface, as Gavin Baker (the author) appears to be busy with other things. This is a maintance only repository as far as libfg goes - I don't plan on adding any more features (since all …

Evolution of a circuit layout

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sentientintelligence/2646562132/ "photo sharing") [evolution of a circuit layout](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sentientintelligence/2646562132/) Originally uploaded by [sentientintelligence](http://www.flickr.com/people/sentientintelligence/)

Half way mark to a 4 channel motion controller. Version 3 of the layout seems to work well and …

Another holiday, another webapp

Thats right, another webapp! This time using google's app engine, so feel free to abuse it, somewhat :P

Rank'em is its name, and it basically lets you create a collection of Things then allow other people to rank each Thing against each other, producing an overall ranking of Things …

Sports isn’t the only thing we are good at

From the website:

“StarStuff is ABC NewsRadio's flagship Astronomy, Cosmology, Space and Science program. “

It is hosted by Stuart Gary and it is the only public program on TV or radio which is dedicated to science.

And it is about to be axed to make way for a 30 minute …

Personification of Programming languages 2

An follow up on the last round of language personifications, this time contributed by brett.

PHP

The crazy party girl you meet at Uni; she's easy to get along with at the beginning; she reminds you of other girls you've known before and hey, its a bit of fun; you're …

Dark ages all over again

Take the article linked to in the topic, and replace "paedophiles" with "witches":

Victorians rally for more public info on witches
Posted 5 hours 28 minutes ago

More transparency: hundreds rallied in Melbourne today. (AAP Image: Simon Mossman)

Hundreds of people rallied in Melbourne today, calling for the Victorian government …

RIP qball

You will be sorely missed.

Cheers,

Steve

Death by *nix

chown state: you
chmod o+x you
./you

Cheers,

Steve