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Berlin – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Today, seeing that I haven’t done so for a while now, comes an update on my life. I’ve just started my second year at university. My degree is supposed to be three years long, but I’ll stretch it out to three and a half because I failed stuff. After resigning from Principal Computers again before I left to move to Berlin in July last year (which I ended up not doing, sadly eno...
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linux.conf.au – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Tag: linux.conf.au. Linuxconf.au 2016 – Monday & Tuesday. So far this week I’ve been at linux.conf.au. As usual, it’s been the insane mix of seeing awesome talks by awesome people, hanging out with old friends, meeting new friends, and not getting quite enough sleep. Of the awesome talks, a few stand out:. Bdale Garbee’s talk on whole-house audio. The UnPDNS in progress….
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Facebook – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Saying goodbye to the cloud. My friend Michael Wheeler. Has written an excellent article on the whys and hows of removing your data from the cloud. This post is basically just to point you all towards it. I think everybody will benefit from thinking just a little more about where their information goes, so I highly recommend you read this article. January 30, 2011. Polish the ...
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Cisco – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Another Long Winding Cisco Road. So, lately I’ve been investigating buying new routing and networking equipment for home, as the NBN (Australia’s FTTH roll-out) is coming closer and my old ADSL2 modem/router (a Billion 7800NL. So, out with the old an in with the new. There were a few choices:. So in the end I settled on a Cisco 1841. Lower fan noise, still supports HWICs for s...
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Google – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Time Management 101: The Calendar. Time management is one of those areas in life where there are as many different answers as there are people asking the questions. Instead of telling you exactly how to manage your time, I’ll tell you how I manage my time. With any luck, you might find some hints useful to you. Following on from my introductory post. A sample day in my calendar.
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Cloud Computing – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. And they all leave a few things to be desired. The desktop versions of MYOB, and the versions of Quicken software that I’ve tried all have a very 1995 feel to them… and no surprise too, I don’t think the software has had a major overhaul since then. LiveAccounts worked ok for me, but it just wasn’t polished enough. It’s not double-entry. This annoys me. For 90% o...When enteri...
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Hardware – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Cisco Catalyst 3550 Fan Mod. First of all, the usual warning: I take no responsibility for any harm done to yourself or your equipment if you decide to take my lead and mod the fan on your switch. It’s your fault for listening to some guy on the Internet you’ve never met. The finished fan installation. Much quieter! August 16, 2011. August 17, 2011. I had to remember to do it.
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Germany – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Trip to Berlin: Part Four. This is part four of my trip to Berlin. For part three, click here. This is the wrap-up of the trip. March 2, 2009. January 16, 2016. Trip to Berlin: Part Three. This is part three of my trip to Germany, for part two click here. Which was (like another movie by same director, American Beauty. We were seeing this mostly for Stephanie’s benefit (...
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Politics – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Linuxconf.au 2014 – January 6. I’m (sporadically and with much delay) blogging my yearly pilgrimage to linux.conf.au 2014, this year being held at the University of Western Australia in Perth. We begun the first day of the conference with the morning keynote, which was presented by Suelette Dreyfus. Yay for freedom and democracy! RF circuit board design is hard. There is s...
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30 Days of Geek – Jack Scott's Blog
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Jack Scott's Blog. Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view…. Handy Scripts & Tools. 30 Days of Geek. Tag: 30 Days of Geek. 30 Days of Geek #16: First computer you’ve ever owned & your favourite ever. I’ve decided to partake in Jethro Carr’s. 30 Days of Geek challenge. So I’ll be writing a post a day on my geekiness for an entire month! You can find all the posts in one spot here. The first computer I co-owned (with my brother):. Intel Celeron 366MHz CPU. 4GB IDE Hard Drive.
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