Advogato blog for robk

6 Jan 2003

Mon, 6 Jan 2003 04:05:04 GMT

Happy new year and all that.

In other news, those using (or considering using) the AMANDA backup suite might be interested in hanging out in the #amanda channel on irc.freenode.net. I've made a start on a FAQ for the channel, feel free to give us some suggestion.

Mad propz to bradm for his help!

Oh yeah, buy Red Hat Advanced Server and keep me in beer.

24 Oct 2002

Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:14:25 GMT

Still not dead.

9 Jan 2002

Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:43:42 GMT

I'm a murderer.

Today I felt I had to certify someone, and not because of the contribution they've made to free software and its community. This is not a nice feeling at all. It would be nice to not care about issues like this, so I wouldn't feel compelled to make such a noxious little statement, but that's the price of having free will in a way.

Bum.

In other news, the weather continues clement. In fact, the weather continues to be stinking bloody clement, most unseasonally so for Brisbane. 38C this Saturday, wah!

Project idea - hack CPAN.pm so it produces RPM targets. Instantly, the hell of installing packages like RT2 and mangling your native Red Hat install (via chewing up the Perl RPMs) goes away (yes, I know debian can do this in a couple of ways). Come, my friends, let us ride once more into the breach, and &c!

Oh yeah, and let love rule.

21 Dec 2001

Fri, 21 Dec 2001 04:48:16 GMT

See my entry for Aug 9.

30 Oct 2001

Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:20:58 GMT

Had some afternoon tea with mbp yesterday. He still won't port rsync to CP/M, though. Chiz chiz.

10 Aug 2001

Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:22:53 GMT

lkcl - reduce the dosage. Or raise it.

21 May 2001

Mon, 21 May 2001 23:34:48 GMT

Ah, well. Tuesday will do.

I've started a new job with Red Hat Asia-Pacific.

14 May 2001

Mon, 14 May 2001 14:45:30 GMT

Gosh.

I'll talk more on Monday.

25 Jan 2001

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:20:15 GMT

AIV time!

16 Dec 2000

Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:47:57 GMT

The choir decided it needed some sort of group calendar, so I hunted around and found phpGroupWare, which shows great promise as an alternative to Micros~1 Exchange.

I've found myself getting involved in the development thereof - so far, at least, by breaking it and finding bugs. It's been a fascinating experience watching the project develop and grow, from the inside, so to speak. I've suggested an idea or two which have been incorporated, which is gratifying, and I'm actually coming up to speed on the code. Actual code! Aiiieeee!

Work, such as it is, continues at the Cthonic ISP with the soul-searing, non-Euclidean machine room.