http://lambie.org The life of a software developer that likes Brazilian jiu jitsu, Lego, comics, helicopters and video games. Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:39:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I bought another Acer X1800 desktop machine today (dual core 2.5GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD for only $380 from JB Hi-Fi!) with the intention of creating the first node in our specjour/Hydra test cluster. You might recall we name all the computers at work after Transformers characters, which meant I ... http://lambie.org/2010/06/19/grand-slam-raindance-slamdance/ Once again we're looking for some more full time developers. If you know someone who might be interested, let them know. Full details are over on The Frontier Group's blog. http://lambie.org/2010/06/14/hiring-again-at-tfg/ In a few weeks my contract with Vodafone is expiring. This coincides with the (suspected) release of the iPhone 4G. My iPad is using Telstra Next-G for mobile coverage, so I used the SpeedTest iPhone application to check each carrier's connectivity from my office. Each test was run once, so the results ... http://lambie.org/2010/06/04/vodafone-youre-making-things-difficult/ On Saturday I attended BarCamp 4 at East Perth TAFE. It was a really well organised event (Matt and Darcy did a great job) and the content presented by the speakers was really engaging and interesting. I saw Jessica Ender's talk on form design as well as Samuel Spencer's talk on ... http://lambie.org/2010/04/12/barcamp-4/ Most people have a team. In Australia it's likely to be your state's AFL team, or either Ford or Holden if you're a bogan, or maybe an English Premier League team if you've got an international flair. I don't have a team. Or rather, I didn't have a team, until last ... http://lambie.org/2010/04/06/scream-for-your-team/ Today we bought a new network switch for work. It's a managed switch and provides a few different ways you can configure it, including telnet, SSH and a web interface. It's a Cisco/Linksys SRW2024, which is part of Cisco's small business networking equipment offering. I'm configuring it to have two VLANs; ... http://lambie.org/2010/03/03/technical-explorer/ I just spent almost two hours with Karen (Luke's mum), Em and Josephine over at Mark and Em's place. Karen had been wanting to meet Baby J and I don't need an excuse to spend time with her or her folks, so I arranged a lunchtime meetup for today. I've ... http://lambie.org/2010/02/17/karen-em-and-josie-i-get-all-the-girls-when-mags-is-away/ Many of you will know that I train Brazilian jiu jitsu, and have done for some time now. I first became interested in BJJ, like many others, when I saw Royce Gracie's dominating performances in the original UFC tournaments many years ago. A guy weighing 170lbs was able to defeat ... http://lambie.org/2010/02/15/why-i-bought-a-tapout-shirt/ If you've used UNIX-based systems for any length of time, there's a good chance that you've come across bwm, or the next-generation version, bwm-ng. It shows real-time data flow across your various network interfaces: bwm-ng v0.6 (delay 0.500s); press 'ctrl-c' to end this /proc/net/dev | ... http://lambie.org/2010/02/13/using-bwm-ng-to-monitor-disk-usage/ I have an iPhone 3G, and lately I've been saying that it's the best gadget I've ever owned, and the worst phone I've ever owned. There's been two main reasons why, one of which Tony helped fix a few days ago. Allow me to tell you a story. Firstly, ever since ... http://lambie.org/2010/02/08/field-testing-the-iphone-3g/