Michael Fleming

buddhism

A story saved for posterity.

The redesign of the site is progressing well and I would expect it to be essentially complete by the weekend at the latest. I’ve had to make some calls regarding stuff that should stay and go – among the casualties is my old Journal, which will remain but have no

web

New site coming.

I’ve currently got a new site design in my internal staging environment, so the old 1990’s style of page you’re currently seeing on my site should be … better. I’ll be making good use of the Gallery2 software I installed previously, as maintaining the images / galleries is

humour

Quote of the Day...

From the comments on a TIME item regarding Jesus Christ’s “may-or-may not have been true or allegory” ressurrection [http://time-blog.com/middle_east/2007/02/jesus_tales_from_the_crypt.html]  (via Metafilter) “I’ve already advised the Discovery Channel that if they air this I will cancel

life

Some changes around...

Firstly, you might have noticed a change in theme (basically went back to the default Kubrick theme for WordPress) This isn’t strictly by design, as my original choice of theme breaks in subtle ways under WP 2.1 and I haven’t had time to fix it. Mind you,

ipv6

No IPv6 :-(

Folks, It seems my IPv6 routed range and tunnel have been offline for the best part of the week. I’ve tried multiple times to rebuild it and that part of it’s fine – but once it hits the other end of the tunnel, no route to any host. So

life

Back to the grind, with much to think about.

Tuesday has seen me back in the office – admittedly not the first work-related day back, as I went on-call for one of my colleagues on Saturday morning owing to a tragic family accident (my thoughts are with them). Fortunately it’s not been busy, so flare-out (too much too quickly

fedora

Holiday halfway point.

One full week to go before I’m back to the grind (something I’m not looking forward to, but I have to eat) I’ve at least managed to get something different in this time – a visit to the new Modern Art Gallery [http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/

hardware

...so he tries to get too frickin' clever..

…and almost loses. As noted in my last entry, I picked up a gigabit switch in the post Christmas sales along with a suitable network card. Today, being a generally wet/overcast day (meaning “watch cricket on the TV and hack around a bit if it’s slow”) I picked

fedora

Another Christmas survived.

It wasn’t half bad, actually – got to catch up with Paul and his missus among other relatives I don’t see too frequently. As usual, the food is plentiful and good. Sleeping on the couch (as per tradition for me) was not so good and my back is absolutely

fedora

Pre-Christmas message :-)

A few things: Life: * Spending Christmas with the family this year. As is tradition, I’ll be sleeping on the couch/floor/other non-bed flat surface. * Dad is not well, unfortunately. We’ll find out more next week from the specialist. * Organized a fortnight off work starting new year. I’

fedora

Emergency repo update :-(

If you’re a user of my Fedora repository you should probably read this. Really. Unfortunately, due to a combination of damaged kernel and dodgy hard disk on my build system, the rsync master repository (on said build system) got slightly corrupted and several RPMs within the Fedora Core 6

fedora

Still around...

I’ve been a little busy of late – much of it at work and miscellaneous other-life bits and pieces. There has been a few things happening. To follow on from my last entry, I didn’t get scummvm / stella fixed, alas. However scummvm is now in Fedora Extras, so I

fedora

Repository updated for Core 6 :-)

My Fedora RPM repository has been updated for Fedora Core 6, now that defender has settled down and ceased panicking. For those not using it already, wander over to my Packages [http://www.enlartenment.com/packages.php] page for more information. Unfortunately for the Atari 2600 and SCUMM engine buffs,

fedora

Updated (but with a few wrinkles)

I now have Fedora Core 6 on defender, my desktop PC. The DVD image took a while but worked flawlessly. However the combination of it and the old NVIDIA Xorg driver ensured I was in console mode most of that night (Thursday) – fixed now though. Now I have a rather

fedora

Preparing for Fedora Core 6...

For those folks who follow it, Fedora Core 6 is out tomorrow (or the day after depending on your time zone). For me, this also means rebuilding my repositories over the weekend in preparation for folks (including me!) wanting my packages. However, I will need to make some changes again

friendsdonewell

Tina @ Indy 2007 Redux

Courtesy of a thoughtful and heroic poster @ the Aussiecelebs model forum: [http://www.enlartenment.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/tina_indy2007.jpg] [https://i1.wp.com/www.enlartenment.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/tina_indy2007.jpg] Again, congrats – May this take you places you’ve only dreamed of going ?

friendsdonewell

Congratulations Tina!

I’d just like to quickly congratulate Tina [http://www.tina.webcentral.com.au/] Wallmann [http://www.enlartenment.com/gallery/img012.jpeg.html] on placing runner-up in the Gold Coast Miss Indy 2007 model competition. Well done my friend! I personally would have loved to have seen her win – I’

hardware

A little extra reliability...

Payday finally arrived! I’d been looking at a good UPS (uninterruptible power supply for the non-hacker/tech readers) and finally settled on the APC RS 500 (about $AU300). It was painless to install and even with my current-sucking bittybox (ie pong, the environmentally-unsound old beast it is) I’ve

life

One very ordinary weekend...

Friday: Dad still in hospital. He’s been having dizzy spells over the course of the week due to low iron/haemoglobin levels. Mum took him in last Tuesday after one too many. Caught up with Bri but not as much as I’d like. On the upside she’s

fedora

A Wednesday Buffet...

Politics (sort of) This method of verifiable voting [http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~rivest/Rivest-TheThreeBallotVotingSystem.pdf]looks very interesting, if a little complicated for it’s intended users (no such issues here in Australia, especially if you’ve ever seen our Senate voting forms). Ron Rivest [http://en.wikipedia.org/

fedora

Because I've not put one up for a while.

…here’s a desktop screenshot. [https://i0.wp.com/www.enlartenment.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/oct2006screen.jpg] I’ve been running GNOME for who knows how long now – thought about KDE (nah) and Fluxbox (almost..) but stuck with what I know best. It just Works. I’ve also

entertainment

Another quick one...

I have heard through the grapevine that my old pal Tina Wallmann [http://www.tina.webcentral.com.au/] is representing “The Drink” nightclub (Gold Coast, Australia for those who are not familiar with it) in this year’s Miss Indy competition. Good luck my friend! (No more running as an

culture

Highbrow and Low-brow quickies.

Some interesting odds and ends picked up today: * British composer, conductor and friend of every brass muso living or dead, Sir Malcolm Arnold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Arnold] died on the 23rd [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2373141,00.html]. Playing and listening to his works

life

The life must flow!

For those who didn’t think I’d ever do it…. Here it is. [https://i2.wp.com/www.enlartenment.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/velvetcard.png] I carried that sucker around for years (got it in 2000 from Leomie, hope she’s doing well) as a reminder of someone

technical

New weblog software!

Yes, after something of a hiatus I’ve followed the crowd and switched over to WordPress. Is this a permanent arrangement? I’ll have to see how it goes. It’s been OK so far, although not having my own tree is something of a pain.. (this is the Fedora