Just added a couple of quick photos to the k100d gallery. Really wish I could have speant longer watching the surfers near The Spit
Camera is Pentax K100D 6MP with a Sigma 70-300 / Sigma 28-70 F2.8

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My respect for the N800 just went up, the whole procedure must have taken 15-20 seconds.
Nokia-N800-50-2:~# wget
-sh: wget: not found
Nokia-N800-50-2:~# curl
-sh: curl: not found
Nokia-N800-50-2:~# apt-get install wget
[snip apt downloading and install wget]
Nokia-N800-50-2:~# wget
wget: missing URL
Usage: wget [OPTION]… [URL]…

Try `wget –help’ for more options.
Nokia-N800-50-2:~#

Ping statistics for 64.233.167.99:
Packets: Sent = 15312, Received = 11515, Lost = 3797 (24% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 232ms, Maximum = 537ms, Average = 237ms

There once was a buggy AI
Who decided her subject should die.
When the plot was uncovered,
The subjected discovered
That sadly the cake was a lie.

http://limerickdb.com/

#544203
<atrus> i worked on a project once where somebody named variables defined in
        various places explicity so on one line of code, it showed up as:
<atrus> function_name($all, $urBase, $rBelong, $toUs);
<atrus> closest i’ve ever come to manslaughter
Expect to see this in Bergamot real soon

Today I received the keys to my new home, and, not unsurprisingly, I’m quite happy.
It’s a moderate sized two bedroom standalone unit, located in Dandenong (though quite close to the Yarraman train station). It’s in a relatively quiet area and located off the road (the driveway into the block of 8 units is on [...]

Just for the record; my Leopard predictions:

ZFS will be default file system
Time Machine will thus become a *free* feature due to copy-on-write

Edit: Why ZFS is cool [PDF]

Ryan vs Dorkman 2

matthewd@carbonara:~$ telnet 10.10.42.45 9090
Trying 10.10.42.45…
Connected to 10.10.42.45.
Escape character is ‘^]’.

This is not a rootkit or other backdoor, it’s a BitTorrent
client. Really. Why should you be worried, can’t you read this
reassuring message? Now just listen to this social engi, er, I mean,
completely truthful statement, and go about your business. Your box is
safe and completely impregnable, the [...]

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut