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General Junk
Day-to-Day 'blog-like' posts about random things.
Kubuntu Desktop 6.06 (x86) LTS VMware Image
Posted on Sunday, 11th June 2006
Who needs iTunes?
Posted on Saturday, 8th April 2006
When you've got AllTunes!
Now you can buy music legitimately*, for a fraction of the price of iTunes - and you don't need iTunes nor an iPod. You can use this with iTunes and a iPod if you wish though. This service is provided from the folks at Al...
Google Video - There's some good stuff.
Posted on Thursday, 9th March 2006
I ended up getting distracted while trying to do 'research', and ended up spending a good few minutes strolling around the mass of video content at Google Video. There's a lot of interesting stuff there (as well as junk), but if nothing else, it's a fa...
UQ's impact on Wikipedia.
Posted on Sunday, 5th March 2006
Hrmm. This is an interesting one.
This year the University of Queensland has implemented a university-wide quota system. All connections to the internet for staff and students go through a central router which upon login, logs all traffic against yo...
Pathetic...
Posted on Friday, 16th September 2005
Here was me waiting with beer in hand, to watch the much awaited Enough Rope interview with Mark Latham - who after disappearing from the political landscape after a massive election defeat, returns to the media spotlight, only to start laying the sma...
Time for a better Brisbane LUG
Posted on Thursday, 15th September 2005
In an effort to try and create a better Brisbane Linux/Open Source User Group (in comparison to the lackluster alternative), two mates - Andy and Morgan decided to get to work and create...
LUGVegas!
The original idea was discussed and agreed up...
Calton Draught - Big Ad!
Posted on Monday, 15th August 2005
It has been on the Internet for a few weeks now (and covered in the media a few times as well), but I'm sure it's worth mentioning again...
It's Carlton United Breweries latest 1.5 million dollar mega-budget advertisement, for Calton Draught.
T...
Now more popular than ever...
Posted on Wednesday, 3rd August 2005
Bless those spam-bots.
First it was the forums (but that was fixed by just enabling visual validation), now it's the guestbook - Suprisingly I thought it would be the other way around, but regardless, it looks like my guestbook is slowly being oblit...
Google - Now a good test of promiscuity.
Posted on Thursday, 14th July 2005
Time to practise what I've preached...
Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2005
I finally decided to signup with iiNet ADSL on the new 12mbit plans.... and after a few day of waiting...
Item
Downstream
Upstream
Unit
SNR Margin
9
11
dB
Line Attenuation
25
25
dB
Data Rate
10464...
Smitty's anti-inviation
Posted on Tuesday, 3rd May 2005
Sick of all the SMS.AC invitations going around the internet, somebody with the nick 'Smitty' sent me this anti-invitation. With a bit of effort, it might be possible to get this one to traverse the entirety of the internet as well :)
Subject: Smitt...
A Methodology for the Synthesis of IPv6
Posted on Tuesday, 19th April 2005
I've finally completed my research on A Methodology for the Synthesis of IPv6.
Enjoy.
Excellent News - With regards ADSL in Australia - Part 2
Posted on Thursday, 24th February 2005
In a previous article I outlined some changes that were coming to the Australian ADSL market, which was namely iiNet and their new plans.
It looks like things have finally become interesting with iiNet releasing the new plans some time ago, and not ...
Excellent News - With regards ADSL in Australia (and Toowong/Chapel Hill :)
Posted on Thursday, 26th August 2004
Just a quick primer on a DSLAM (from webopedia): "Short for Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, a mechanism at a phone company's central location that links many customer DSL connections to a single high-speed ATM line. When the phone company r...
SMS.AC An Internet Scam to the Extreme
Posted on Thursday, 19th August 2004
(Funnily enough if you rearrange the letters and you get 'SCAMS')
There's a new spam n' scam going around, unfortunately unlike most spams that you receive, it really isn't that obvious - At least not to some people.
Before I get into the nitty g...
Hurrah for Google Mail
Posted on Tuesday, 29th June 2004
I managed to score myself a shiny new gmail address the other day, and should have some invites to give shortly.
So yeah if you're interested in an invite for one post it in the forums, I'll see what I can do.
Federal Election Party Calculator
Posted on Tuesday, 25th May 2004
Well the federal election is nearly here, or will have passed, by the time I bother updating this site again.Anyway, for those of you who may be confused on who to vote for, I made this simple script, which will automagically tell you who your should v...
15 Hours
Posted on Thursday, 20th May 2004
This is a story of a friend Alex, who I'd consider the 'model University student'. Alex not only does 5 engineering subjects per semester (normal load is 4), he manages this while spending no more than two hours of time actually at the University. A ty...
Mars Up Closer...
Posted on Tuesday, 26th August 2003
We'll Mars pretty soon will peak at being the closest to earth in over 70,000 years. I must admit, in comparison to my last gaze at the stars, Mars certainly does look a little bigger, but more importantly it's a hell of a lot brighter.
While it ...
Only at Byron Bay
Posted on Monday, 7th July 2003
Headed South on the weekend to see my Nan in Lismore, who I haven't seen for a good year or so.
However on the way I couldn't help but stop by and cruise around Wategoes Beach in Beautiful Byron Bay, to suck up some of the sunshine.
The road beh...
Still chewing SETI packets
Posted on Monday, 23rd June 2003
A small accomplishment for a mostly uniprocessor setup. A few years of CPU time later, I've managed to finally clock up 2000 analysed SETI packets. Nothing amazing about 2000, it's just the next logical step up from 1000 ;). Recently however I've manag...
Oh Brother.
Posted on Saturday, 10th May 2003
I posted my dispair when Channel 10 decided it was time for another Big Brother, that was back with BB2 was starting.
Now that there is yet another version - It's time for some fun.
Welcome to http://bigbrother.unleadedonline.net/, which is my pa...
In the mailbox...
Posted on Monday, 28th April 2003
Well sombody decided to read the About Me section of this site and take it a little bit to literally, especially the bit about programming and quote "... doing complex programming, while eating my favorite 'unhealth' bar, which is probably the reason f...
One year of The Lounge
Posted on Sunday, 13th April 2003
A year ago to this day, somebody thought it would be a good idea that I have some forums on my website, on the same day I thought 'yeah what a cool idea' having no idea that it would grow into the place it has become - A regular meeting ground for a nu...
Taking optimism to new heights
Posted on Saturday, 12th April 2003
What a guy...
And the winner of the most optimistic award is the Iraqi 'information' minister, with classic quotes such as:"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!""Baghdad is safe and the invaders will be slaughtered!" (While US tanks can b...
Religion Irrelevant?
Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2003
What started as a simple jab at religion, quickly turned into a thread discussing religious denominations (with a good deal relating to Christianity), life, self-perception and agnosticism amongst other things.
Who is right? Is anybody? Is there a...
Wannabe l33t hax0r g33ks.
Posted on Monday, 31st March 2003
Recently it was discovered that my.UQ had a serious bug in the IMP mail client that allowed students to gather quite personal information on other students by exploiting the search function, which seems to have now been fixed.
However, what was even...
Getting Stressed?
Posted on Wednesday, 19th March 2003
With the approaching war, increasing terrorism and all - its understandable. So I thought this might help those with touchy nerves, a little song to calm you down.
Enjoy.
(Before the RIAA declare war on this website. Anybody wanna join my Anti-DM...
0wnage.
Posted on Thursday, 13th February 2003
Australia Win 3 to 1 in the Soccer. You don't believe me?. Amazing - Is there anything us Aussies can't do? Swimming, Cricket, Rugby, Tennis, Soccer and more.. We 0wn them all!
All we need now is an economy based on more than Oil and Coal.
Another reason (in the endless list) to hate Tel$tra?
Posted on Wednesday, 12th February 2003
I've been regulary reading the ABC recently (thanks Ben ;), and ran into this absolute beauty.
Apparently Telstra now want to charge recievers of SMS's... I mean - WTF?
A move towards a "receiver-pays" system is underway, with Telstra saying they a...
A 'little' update.
Posted on Thursday, 9th January 2003
If you've visted here a few times, you've probably noticed that I've changed the design a little. That's just one of the many things I've done to the site, the most time consuming was making it all XHTML W3C compliant - meaning nice and readable HTML b...
Ouch
Posted on Wednesday, 1st January 2003
My Head...
Happy Christmas & New Year.
Posted on Friday, 27th December 2002
I hope you all had a great Christmas. I won't be around till sometime in the New Year (Jan), so I wish you all a Happy New Year.
I have the feeling that 2003 might be a pretty good one, in comparision to the other years 1983-2002, I don't know why.....
The Annual UO.net Forum Awards
Posted on Monday, 23rd December 2002
It was around April this year when I moved to better hosting, that the idea of starting up some forums came to mind. I didn't have a clue if it would work, or if anyone would bother posting to it, that's why it probably took me so long to set some up i...
Ohh yeah. Bring on the heat.
Posted on Wednesday, 4th December 2002
I donno about you, but the hotter it gets, the better it is. The temperature is starting to only get bearable with it reaching nearly 40. A couple of interesting discoveries:It's is really _@#)(@ hot in the city. lolIf a beach was once the victim of an...
It's Over! (for this year)
Posted on Thursday, 21st November 2002
Yes Uni 2002 is now over. I honestly can't believe how fast it went though - Just goes to prove that i'll be a 40+ year old geek before I know it, if time keeps up the current pace...
Anyway, as a quick summary of the past year, I'd have to say it w...
Exams Exams Exams
Posted on Tuesday, 12th November 2002
Well I had my first exam on Monday after a week of 'studying' in swatvac.
Three more to go. Watch this page, I'm going to update this post-event (events being listed below).
You can get my feelings* on each event as I will associate an Emoticon wit...
Late Nights & Unix Labs
Posted on Tuesday, 5th November 2002
Well last week was the end of formal University, all that's left now is Exams.
Anyway, to say the least the last week or so had been a killer - there was so much work to do, and not enough time. Most of this being in the Unix labs, at least in my situ...
UnleadedOnline Mirror
Posted on Friday, 1st November 2002
Due to increasing popularity of this site, here is a mirror.
Crap Assignments!
Posted on Friday, 25th October 2002
By q2_stefan
I'm sure this type of rant will have been posted many times, but I (like everybody else) am really tired and I CBF'd looking to make sure.
COMP2501 is due later on today and I've got stuck with not only finding patterns, about which ...
Remembrance
Posted on Thursday, 17th October 2002
By Nick Partridge:
I was reading the paper this morning, and the human side of bali has hit me.
33 dead. 160 missing.
The bomb hit a nightclub, it was a club full of young adults like us. There's stories of a guy and his girlfriend dancing. H...
Thought it couldn't get any worse?
Posted on Tuesday, 15th October 2002
Looks like UQ is the next sellout in a list of universities that Micro$oft wants to turn into their 'Research and Development' centers.
As in the forums:
Steve Ballmer is coming to UQ to meet the heads of board, I don't know why though.
Guess wh...
The Bali Blast
Posted on Monday, 14th October 2002
Condolences to all the families and friends of those who died. While it's easy to just look at the disaster from the political perspective, the fact remains that it's a human tragedy.
A close relative of mine, his son, was walking towards one of the...
Hi! I'm on my lunch break.
Posted on Thursday, 10th October 2002
'Bored Shitless' would be a perfect way to describe my current situation (and that of my collegues). This last week or so has been a complete mindjob to anybody related to anything 'IT'. For those of you who know a little bit about the inner subject st...
RedHat 8.0 Released!
Posted on Tuesday, 1st October 2002
Probably the most anticipated RedHat Linux release yet. Namely because of its improvments in the desktop interface. I'm not a big fan of x.0 releases though, they are a bit dodgy in some way (Read: RH 7.0), but the 8.0 beta had been around for a while...
It never happened.
Posted on Saturday, 28th September 2002
Well it's officially the 'holidays' now. If you call seven days a holiday, expecially when there's a shit load of work to catch up that will easily consume eight days of it.
Anyway. My good friend Ben sent me a long but very interesting article he w...
COMP2502?
Posted on Monday, 2nd September 2002
Well I don't see how all the work is worth a measily 10%.
On that note, I'm suffering from a severe case of procrastination at the moment. I suspect I'll have it till I finish my degree.
Anyway, enough rambling.
September Already?
Posted on Sunday, 1st September 2002
Anyone feeling like time is going way too fast at the moment. Scary things is I can't see it slowing down at all within the not too distant future.
*shrugs*
We're back.
Posted on Saturday, 24th August 2002
Hello! If you'r viewing this then your viewing www.unleadedonline.net from the new server, not the old one.
Well the site migration process to the new server seems to have gone OK. Apart from all the problems with the DNS, and code sprawl with quick...
It's time for unleadedonline.net to move on.
Posted on Thursday, 22nd August 2002
.... to better hosting! Got you worried for a minute there eh?
We'll the crusty PII-233 w/32MB RAM that runs this site has served it's purpose. Sure I had complete and utter 0wange of it. Today it died after 137 days of uptime. Hardware failure, it ...
Back to Sck00l.
Posted on Tuesday, 30th July 2002
Well Uni went back yesterday, just my luck however that on the Monday morning of the new semester (2am), I wake up with would could only be described as quick dry concrete in my nasal cavities, a head that felt like its about to explode and an excellen...
"3's a Degree"
Posted on Thursday, 11th July 2002
Well my results (and really anyone at UQ's) came out on satanic.net (aka. SI.NET) last night, which bring closure to last semester. I did quite well (and no I didn't get any
Semester is ooooveer!!
Posted on Saturday, 29th June 2002
What's the luck (along with 200 other IT students), having an exam on the last session, of the last day, of the last week of the two week exam block. 5:15PM to 7:30PM Saturday the 29th.
Well the INFS2200 Exam was simply a copy and paste job from the...
The semester in its entirety.
Posted on Friday, 31st May 2002
The quality of soccer was world-class. Assuming you knew what sides people were on, while playing.
Well it's getting close to the end of the semester, one more week of 'lectures', a couple of exams (which luckly for me are quite spaced apart), and t...
Death Week(s)?
Posted on Friday, 17th May 2002
I thought I had gone through the busy period at Uni, codename 'death week', where you have a number of assessment items due and some mid-semester exams to go with it, but it's back again to haunt me. 4 pieces of assessment, no time to go out, and I'm s...
One Year of SETI CPU time and counting!
Posted on Sunday, 28th April 2002
It's taken me almost 2 and 1/2 years to get to this point (considering I don't really leave my computer running over night). But I've finally got over a year of CPU time.
I think I actually broke the 1 year barrier a while ago, but I never bothered ...
How low is 'reality' TV going to go?
Posted on Thursday, 18th April 2002
Well the answer to that question, is Big Brother 2.
Sick...
Ironic how Channel Ten replaced Law and Order SVU with BigBrother 2 'UnCut'.
I have forums!
Posted on Sunday, 14th April 2002
After much consideration. I've decided to get some forums going. Feel free to register and have a chat about anything. It's namely a haven for us UQ students to let off some steam - especially the IT variety.
You can get to the forums by clicking ...
I've been told to post more often!
Posted on Tuesday, 9th April 2002
The only thing that stops me from updating this site is the fact I have an very limited imagination and thus cannot for the life of me think of a topic(s) to post about?
Anybody have some suggestions? Trust me. I probably haven't thought about it. (...
More Stuff
Posted on Monday, 11th March 2002
Well I got around to adding all the Taw Kwon Do shots from Market Day - Pretty cool they are if you ask me.
Microsoft Suck - Did you know that?
My Micro$oft Intellimouse I bought for a 100 bucks less than a year ago died today out of the blue. Wh...
Gallery Photos
Posted on Wednesday, 6th March 2002
There are still more to come. I just haven't had time to upload them yet. Just thought you may want to know (you know who you are :)
Gallery Time
Posted on Thursday, 28th February 2002
Well after market day, I have a lot of photos to sort though - namely the ones from the BITS booth and the Tae Kwon Do shots.
So I've setup a gallery - check it out here.
I've yet to upload all the photos - please be patient :)
I also noticed th...
Holidays, Uni, Market-Day, O-Week, BITS, Tae Kwon Do, CompactFlash, and a new site :)
Posted on Wednesday, 27th February 2002
Hello All.
Well it's been a long time since my last news article. Hell it's been a long time since I've bothered to upload some new content with this site.
Why you ask?
Well to be honest it's because I just couldn't (and couldn't be f#$*ed fixing...
Insert Sigh of Relief Here
Posted on Thursday, 20th December 2001
What do I say. I'm outta here - Leaving for the coast for a week or so - a seriously needed break...
ahhhh....
Be Back Later.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :)
Procrastination, and blurbs.
Posted on Friday, 30th November 2001
Stupid DNS. This site has been down for two weeks because of DNS problems - all requests for this site [unleaded.ausut.com] where magically redirecting to www.ausut.com argh! Anyway. I have a friggin INFS1200 exam coming up soon, and I'm finding it un...
Bored... Really Bored!
Posted on Wednesday, 3rd October 2001
Got a first post on Slashdot today - you know - that site with over 1/4 million visitors. Pretty good accomplishment I recon :)
Check it out here.
Confused ....
Posted on Saturday, 15th September 2001
This last week will probably be one I'll never forget, with the terrorist attack on the WTC. I'm not even going to comment on the event as it has been on the news all week, and information about it can be found on various internet sites .... Tragic.
A couple of updates.
Posted on Monday, 3rd September 2001
Nothing really exciting worth commenting on. Just updated the personal section quite a bit. Added more to *sigh* the cra... junk section, and porting more pages to CSS.
Fun!
w00tage
Posted on Wednesday, 8th August 2001
Well things are really starting to get busy. I'm even having trouble updateing this beloved site regularly with content.
Ohh well it seems this semester is something to enjoy - with a new, more postable website design (thus more news here)... Back to ...
Busy eh?
Posted on Wednesday, 1st August 2001
Well well, University has started for the second semester of this year - and things are already really busy, and it's only like 1/2 way though the first week!
Hmm.... So I suspect nothing's going to happen around here for a looong time (but the Junk...
Depressed
Posted on Saturday, 28th July 2001
Well today wasn't very brillient. Haven't felt so un-everthing before in my life. I think it's the weather though, stupid cloudy rain crap (It's supposed to be blue skys every day in Brisbane). The rain was desperately needed, the place was starting to...
Another Site Change
Posted on Thursday, 26th July 2001
Well as you can probably see, all the news on this site seems to have been posted on the 26th - that`s because today I finally decided to actually port this front page to a PHP script I was working on ages ago. All the last news was just a boring stat...
Red Hats
Posted on Thursday, 24th May 2001
Don`t worry. I haven`t lost it psychologically... yet. And yes - I still have a really boring Java assignment to get done, and while being on the computer, it`s well... very tempting to say the least to update this site, not that anyone reads this s#&t...
Welcome to the new site :)
Posted on Monday, 21st May 2001
Welcome to my actually NEW site!
What did you say Unleaded? New Site? It looks much like the last one?
A: Bah.....ok....Yes it does, except for a couple of major things. As an intoduction - my interest in web development really doesn`t have a lot to ...
Site Update
Posted on Saturday, 7th April 2001
Updated the personal section.
I apologise to anyone who is using a browser other than IE5... My idea of Javascipt CSI has turned out to be a complete joke - yeah, I knew that when I made it, but pffft. It only effects 10% of the web-surfing population...
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