3D printers

I have been contemplating buying a 3D printer for a couple of years now.
I believe that they will be the future of manufacturing and I won't be surprised when you will
see some type of 3D printer in everyone's home.

Well I finally bought one!
I headed over to KickStarter and found the Tiko. After a few minutes I decided to back the project.
It has now been fully funded. I hope to get mine in January 2016.

Once is arrives, I am planning on building a robot. The one that looks to have huge potential is the
InMoov project http://www.inmoov.fr/

Back again

Greetings,

I am back again to the blogging scene. I have been away too long.
Time to become a content creator instead of a consumer.
I have decided to share again with the world through this blog since I have developed
an interest in developing Unity 3D Applications
Check out http://unity3d.com/

I am attempting to make a game in my free time.
More to come

Recommended reading to protect your privacy.

I suggest to all my friends to read the CryptoParty handbook.
Its a free E-book both in PDF and EPUB formats for easy reading.
Good tips and easy reading as an introduction to how to maintain your privacy on the
interwebs. ;-)

Vodafone may support Interpol filter

Another Internet carrier joins the censorship
http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/14/vodafone-may-support-interpol-filter/

China want to buy a stake in Facebook

Very interesting article from Forbes.

http://blogs.forbes.com/gordonchang/2011/07/03/china-wants-to-buy-facebook/

Scary news for Everyone. How far does the US tentacles go?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-piracy-extradition-prosecution

A must read for all computer users.
How long until the US decides they can prosecute for other supposed crimes.

Bitcoin exchange MTGOX hacked

One of the largest Bitcoin exchanges was hacked causing the price to dive.
The exchange has closed temporally while they resolve the issues.

Bitcoin Fun.

I have made my first transaction in bitcoins today.
Its pretty exciting.
Wanting to do my first trade on MTGOX.

Bitcoin mining with GPU's

I have just discovered BitCoin.
Its a new digital currency based on crypto and P2P
You can read about from here http://www.bitcoin.org/

I have a new ATI 5830 GPU getting 267Mh/s
At the moment ATI video cards are better for mining than NVidia.
Check out the https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

I have join the Bitcoin Mining Pool http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Eligius_mining_pool
Will update with a a lter date with my results.
If anyone wants to donate any bitcoins then please send to 1HQmyLZfM6bpR62irbDPTSmcGGHcm9mnPC

Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.

I have been running Ubuntu 10.10 for a few months now and I am happy to say that everything works great. I wouldn't suggest that people use the alpha versions of Ubuntu like I did, but hey its always fun to be on the bleeding edge.

I would recommend that anyone that uses Ubuntu to install Ubuntu tweak http://ubuntu-tweak.com/
This little app makes editing some of the setting in Ubuntu almost painless.

Supernova 2010

Hi, Recently I went to Supernova 2010. It was awesome.
Many things to see and some great Cosplay.
They even had a darlek.

Back to blogging and upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 X64

Hi.
I have finally decided to go back to Blogging. It has been a long time since I last wrote on my Blog and I have always wanted to get back to it.
My initial plan was to document my moving to my new house. However my plan was always to write about the thing I found important.
Linux and computer security.


I have finally taken the plunge and decided to migrate to the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 10.04.
I am very please to say that it works perfectly so far. My last time I went 64-bit there was some things that just didn't work properly.
Until next time take care!

I am back.

Well, it seems that I got lazy and havn't updated my blog for ages.

I am now back and will try and update it more frequently.

Some updates.

The first part of our house renovations have been finished.
We now have a new bedroom and bathroom.
But I lost my bar :-(

The next part is currently going through council approvals and quotes.



Soon I will start updating this site for the main reason I wanted to set it up for.
Computer stuff.

I will start posting some computer tutorials and stuff, mainly to do with Linux and Open Source.
But may perhaps give some updates on my chatbot I have been working with.
Still in development and written so far in 100% Python. (I am a programming noob so it may take a while) I am going to host of Sourceforge when I am not too embarressed about the code.

New Photos

Hi again,

Here are some new photos of the house etc.
I will again post some better ones when I find them.


First day at School...


The Joys of walking to school, a nice steep hill.

Trying on the school uniforms
First school friend party
Our New Dining room table
On the front porch (Its great to have coffee)
What Evil lair is complete with out a dungeon

Ripping up the carpet and removing the Evil nails. Ahh the joys of renovating
Views from our old house, brings back the memories. Just after we moved all our stuff and cleaned it all.

Moved In

Hi Again,

Well, sorry about the lack of updates, but have been really busy.
Work and Home issues keeping us busy.
We have moved in to the new house and am currently making it a home
Still need stuff like a Dining Table and Chairs etc

Slowly getting there.... :-)

Moving in day!!!!!

Well, the day has finally arrived.
Time to move in!!!!!.

I am soooo stressed as I hate the prospect of moving and unpacking and the cleaning etc.

I am here writing my blog at my sisters place and drinking coffee.

Getting ready to travel to Hornsby to get to our new house.

Wish us luck.

PS. I will put up some new photos as soon as I find the USB cable for the camera and get a net connection.

Ahh , the joys of renovating

Well,
I finally got my phone connected at my new house (YEAH!!!)
The painters have finished and now the floor sanders have been busy.
The smell should be gone in a few days and we will finally be able to live in our new house
I am just about exhausted.

I am going to send some pictures of the house when its finished, but I can say it looks kinda sweet now

will write more when i have time

byeeeee

Moving Fun

Hi again.

Well I can honestly say that I am exhausted.
My kids are going wild and we are currently sleeping on the floor of our old place.

I had some fun with getting my new phone connected and lost my current phone connection with my old place.

You see it all went down like this.

I called Telstra to get my new phone line connected at my new house. I wanted to get this one as soon as possible so I can get my ADSL connected ASAP.
The I requested my old phone number to be disconnected on Friday Afternoon.

This went all to plan and everything was going OK.

But we had issues with moving to the new house (Here begins my issues with Telstra)

I phoned telstra about my moving issues and said if it was possible to cancel my disconnection of my old number as I had not moved yet and still want the number and I still required my ADSL connection.

I knew this was late, so I told the Telstra operator if it was not possible to cancel the disconnection due to the short notice, not to worry about it.

I also asked to make sure this will not affect my new connection at my new house.

I was assured that this would not be a problem.

Sooooo the telstra guy cancels my disconnection request AND my new number connection at my new place. (he tells me not to worry all is fine)

The after about 10 minutes he tells me that he cannot reconnect my new house number and I have a small chance of loosing my new phone number (that I just gave out to everyone)

And that It could take up to 5 business days to get it reconnected.... (I am a little mad at this point but i say hey at least i still have my old phone number and ADSL connection)

Now my sister comes over and asks me to help her setup her new laptop.
All is going fine when suddenly my ADSL connection just dies!!!!

I panic , thinking that 1) Teltra just disconnected my phone line.
2) I check the phone connection all i can ring out.
3) I can no longer get ADSL at all after checking all settings but the ADSL signal still exists on the line but no PPP connection exists
4) I got up to make a coffee and my wife tells me the phone is dead

5) I curse Telstra !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
6) I curse Telstra again
8) and again and again

They make me soooo mad

Oh well thats life

Last Day before move

Hi again.

Its my last day before the big move.
Too many things to do and too many boxes.
It was raining today too so I am very worried about tomorrow....

This is also my last day without ADSL for a while, looks like I am back to dial up for a while untill
I can get my new service connected.

Wish me and my family the best of luck with the move...

I will write more as I get time and a stable connection.

Byeeee

Another Day

Well, its almost the end of another day.
Packing, cleaning, throwing stuff away... Joy!!

Its been very tiring doing it all, I hurt my wrist , so makes it more difficult.
The kids are mucking up, because of all the mess they are playing with everything and unpackingf the boxes we just packed :-)

Well I shall put in some photos my my new place. These were taken the first day we got the keys.
Before the painter has had a chance to do their magic.


Ahh, My very own bar.

Kitchen... what can i say ..Food...

Nice place for a beer.
Nice view as well