http://lambie.org The life of a software developer that likes Brazilian jiu jitsu, Lego, comics, helicopters and video games. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:35:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Last weekend at The Academy we had a jiu jitsu seminar with internationally-renowned  Robert Drysdale. We spent three hours with him, going over some of his favourite techniques, and linking together movements and transitions. I found him really approachable and familiar, in contrast to some of the senior black-belt Brazilians I've trained ... http://lambie.org/2010/01/30/its-all-about-the-small-victories/ Do you fix broken MacBook Pro keyboards for fun? Well to be truthful, that's only half of what I did. I also enjoyed dinner and coffee with Magdalena, Fitzy and Kirstie, but the last two hours were spent hunched over Magdalena's broken MacBook Pro with my mini screw drivers and a ... http://lambie.org/2010/01/16/how-do-you-spend-your-saturday-nights/ A few days ago Magdalena and Doug were messing about and Doug caused Mags to laugh really hard, when she had a mouthful of water, when she was using her laptop. As such, she now has a semi-functioning keyboard where some letters, like "S", "E" and "X", just don't work. ... http://lambie.org/2010/01/09/broken-macbook-pro-keyboard/ On my birthday we collected two toy poodle puppies. We have a boy and a girl. Magdalena said that if she could pick the breed, I could pick the colour and name them. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Snake-Eyes and Baroness (or maybe Baroness and Snake-Eyes; they didn't have their ... http://lambie.org/2010/01/05/puppies/ Magdalena and I just spent a tonne on books from Amazon, with the idea that we'll build up our collection of classics for the coming 2010 season of the Berwick Manor Book Club. We established the book club in April 2007 and I'd estimate we've read close to a book ... http://lambie.org/2010/01/04/in-the-book-place/