Michael Fleming

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Gentlemanly Gaming

Per my musing yesterday, I’ve run up some game servers on qbert. Crossfire is turned off and I’ll wager no one notices. ? I have Battle For Wesnoth and Teeworlds running right now, ready to go. The Linux crowd will know Wesnoth well, and Teeworlds is good fun for

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Something new and hopefully good.

A different kind of week this week. I do need to go on a diet, or at least go back to my old one as Christmas has done little for my waistline. The Significant Other is trying to convince me to go gluten-free and hit the gym, which are both

humour

Yeah, He Did.

[https://i0.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this.jpg] Chill, I got thisBarry, just don’t fuck it up, k? Please bro? That last yokel really screwed the pooch. (pic courtesy of punditkitchen.com)

life

Things I've learnt this week

1. There are no tasteful Myspace layouts. It’s simply not possible 2. Most of the invites on above are spammers or struggling musos. No thanks.. 3. I like Perl’s way of writing to files better than Python’s 4. Olive oil makes a fast and effective makeup remover

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No more Fedora 8 packages

I’ve pushed the last set of packages – mainly fixes for the XMPP transports, DKIMProxy and a new CitrusDB – for Fedora 8 just a few minutes ago. As of today it’s officially End Of Life (EOL) upstream as well, and I’ve got enough versions to deal with. If

life

What a strange state of being this is...

This has been one of those times where a moment of quiet reflection is not suggested, but mandatory. Firstly, my near and dear is most upset over the loss of a favourite horse. Being the animal lover she is, loss of any animal companion is going to hit hard. Secondly,

technical

LOLWUT?

So, what have I done, where is the old site, you ask? Well, I figured that the site could do with an update. It’s been literally years since I’ve made a major change to it. However there’s a few problems with this: 1. I am not a

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Three little pre-Christmas requests.

Dear Lazyweb, I’ve set up icecast as an  IPV6-only experiment (the result of a half-drunken challenge from Mr Steven Lisson Esq.) and am streaming some Ogg Vorbis tracks off it with EZstream. Winamp and Totem Player (Linux/Gnome) work fine. Banshee (Gnome/Mono) and WMP however do not – WMP

technical

Just doing some rearrangements.

Don’t mind the disruption. I’ve just moved the blog to it’s own independent URL, just to keep things clean. Visitors and feed readers will be redirected automatically (a few lines of mod_rewrite here and there) I’ll restore the Gallery2 integration once I work out WTF

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Cambridge repository is ready :-)

Fedora 10 (Cambridge) packages are live now. Mainly rebuilds, some old crap retired – but a nice addition for Ruby hackers in the Capistrano deployment framework. Go and get ’em here: http://www.thatfleminggent.com/packages/fedora/10/x86_64/repoview/index.html [https://www.thatfleminggent.com/packages/fedora/10/x86_

life

Busily employed.

I’m happy to (belatedly) announce that I’m now back in full-time employment, having started as systems administrator at Australian Publishing Network’s Milton office. My colleagues are pretty switched on, the atmosphere is fairly easygoing and being on Park Road there’s no shortage of places to get

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Progress, Fleming style.

I have been privileged, spending the last couple of days in the most wonderful company of my very special “better half” – a great meal Tuesday (the Himalayan Cafe in Brunswick Street, Valley is recommended if you’re out that way) and a perfect followup yesterday of a lovely afternoon and

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.bullshit

Tim Berners-Lee says the Internet is full of lies [http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24363626-5014239,00.html] He’s quite right in saying there’s a hell of a lot of unsubstantiated and downright erroneous rubbish out there – look around FreeRepublic or StormFront or RaptureReady or

politics

The idiots are running the asylum

* Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the United States [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin] * Virginia de-convicts AOL junk mailer Jeremy Jaynes [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/virginia_overturns_antispam_

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Unfortunate circumstances...

Thought I’d post a quick update seeing that’s it’s been a while. Firstly, I am again looking for work. I’m not going to go into detail other than to say I’m extremely disappointed and will be very careful who I work for in the future.

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Updates..

Work: Is going well. Security and fixup work at the moment, a nice mailserver build (learning a bit about I/O kernel elevators) and miscellanea. Life: My love is back from interstate with all of her needed gear. Catching up with old friends from school via Facebook of all places.

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Ups and downs.

Heh, a month between posts? I must be getting slack. Things have mostly improved. I am again gainfully employed in a systems architecture / infrastructure development type role with Dedicated Servers / Hosting Shop here in Brisbane. It means less systems admin work (and the downsides like insane hours and being tied

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Much is happening (not much of it good...)

Well – what can I say? I’ve suddenly have some free time on my hands, however not the way I’d intended (some holidays). My employer decided – very suddenly I might add, over a coffee @4pm last Tuesday afternoon – to make me redundant as of the 13th of May. I

entertainment

Accidental internet-speak meets old pop-culture reference.

ROLF (n); rolling on the floor laughing, while holding/playing a wobbleboard (for the non-Aussie / Pom readers, or you youngsters who don’t get the above reference, it refers to this man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Harris] See what I mean on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?

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Enlightened kids and new toys and spring cleaning..

Posted to the U-Zendo mailing list: [https://i0.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/ch080428.gif] …even comic characters understand the concept of impermanence ? Me: I’ve been doing some server infrastructure and web R&D lately; I am a fairly recent convert to the

life

Still walking the path...

I’ve not had much inclination to update this (in case you’ve not noticed ;-)) but as I’ve updated the theme and done a bit of web design / hacking around I reckon “what the hell..” Life (and love): Where do I start? An almost complete turnaround; a bit

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Rant in One Thousand Words.

[https://www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/onnotice.jpg] [https://i1.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/onnotice.jpg] Enough said.

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I've not disappeared - the move is complete

…. but not without dramas. The move wasn’t as smooth as expected. The actual furnishings/equipment move was fine, but the technological move was not. Thanks to the wonders of the monopoly telecommunications company here (Telstra) who, despite being privatised and made to compete with other carriers treats the public

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Moving very soon..

The lease on my apartment here in Fortitude Valley has expired and my landlords have opted not to offer me an extension (well, they DID but then rescinded it after I agreed to it, lusers). I’ve not settled on anything else as yet – still going over a whole raft

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More random shite..

Not much of this is going to be coherent, but here goes: Metafilter [http://www.metafilter.com/65071/I-want-to-sit-in-a-hole-and-drink-chardonnay-while-reading-a-book-thanks-very-much/] posters can be cuttingly funny: > “When I think of Sydney I think of the Crocodile Hunter and Paul Hogan jousting against each other in speed boats, while Yahoo Serious referees