The photos from the housewarming are now up in the gallery. Hopefully Richie and Mark will be able to add theirs soon (when I give them accounts).

All in all, we counted just over 50 people attending throughout the night, which we think was a good turn out.

Thanks to every one who came, and especially those that brought lovely gifts. Hopefully you had a good night; we sure did!

Yesterday we got the phone connected at our new place, as you'll have no doubt read. A few minutes after I spoke with Telstra, I used the signup pages at Westnet to connect our ADSL line at home. I threw in the phone number, and the signup process went through OK.

Then this morning I got a call from Jonny saying that the connection was rejected because when Telstra tried to check my line it hadn't been connected. This halted the process; dead in the water.

The nice chaps at Westnet reinitiated the connection process this morning, and we were underway again. This was at about 11:00AM. Then at just before 4:00PM this afternoon, I received an email saying that our connection had not only been provisioned, but that it was completed! Our ADSL was connected in five hours, not two weeks, which is the ususal waiting time!

I got home, and sure enough, the connection was up and we had line sync. Now we're connected, and I'm back online. Telstra are no longer in my bad books, and Westnet is on the top of my 'wicked IT company' list, just behind The Frontier Group ;)

I found out today that with the release of Sarge on the horizon, the next Debian/testing name has been selected. With buzz, rex, bo, hamm, slink, potato, woody and sarge having been used already, the release managers have settled on "etch."

For those that haven't caught on, all the codenames are taken from the Toy Story movies.

Debian has three streams (well, it actually has four, with the last being 'experimental' but I don't know that anyone really uses that). They are stable, testing and unstable.

Packages go into unstable, then after two weeks (and no hassles) they move into testing. Every 18 months or so, the current testing gets frozen, and that gets moved to stable, and we start with a new testing. This process is called a release.

Stable is what's known as the release, and we currently have woody as stable. This means that no new packages to into woody, with the exception of security fixes. This is what you run on servers.

Testing is what most people use on their desktops, unless they need the bleeding edge-ness of unstable. Testing at the moment is sarge.

Unstable is never released as such. Unstable is called sid, who if you remember was the boy next door that used to break toys for fun. I thought it was humerous.

Edit: 20/08/2004 - 11:32AM
In response to Hale's question regarding the release schedule, it looks like September 15th will be the release date for Sarge, of the release-critical bug count gets down in time.

If you want to reach Mags or myself, (08) 9472 9360 is the number to use. It should be getting connected by end of business tonight.

On a slight downer, because there was some confusion over the final payment of the line I had in Como 18 months ago, we can only make local calls. I must be in the bad books somewhere on their systems.

The funny part was the dude asked me a bunch of questions trying to 'upsell' the connection. These were along the lines of "Telstra offer other services on home lines. Would you like caller ID enabled at a cost of blah dorras per month?" The funny one was "will you be connecting to the internet today" to which I replied "yes, but not with Telstra." I made him cry.

I forgot to mention that I called REIWA to get some clarrification regarding the second buzzer situation.

The estate agents did a full back flip when I informed them that they are, by law, meant to provide two buzzers. Without it, we cannot utilize the second car bay as it was intended/advertised.

Now I have to check my mail box every day, because we'll be getting a second beeper dropped off within the week ;)