Quick Post

I post this as I go over the Sydney harbour bridge, yep got my nokia n95 mobile working on ubuntu, was pretty easy once I worked it out, config below for prosperity. Ubiquitous internets, I love the world we live in.

First my phone is plugged in via usb, bluetooth is good and all but this means I can use my phone for music at the same time.
you need to install wvidail
then run wvdial conf
then edit the /etc/wvdial.conf to the below.

[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Baud = 1152000
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ISDN = 0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Phone = *99#
Username = vf
Password = vf
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","vfinternet.au";
Stupid Mode = 1

Gotta go about to go into tunnel.
Peace out all.

Hey nice set a wheels

Today we bought a new car. A Hyundai Elantra. You know you are getting old when not once in a car sale conversation power or speed come up. It was all about saftey. I will say one thing the salesmen at Hyundai in Pennant Hills do a damn good job, they had has a pegged and sold on every feature they suggested.
So in two weeks we should have some new wheels, with more room for the little ones, and a bit more power and fuel economy for us. We plan on keeping it for as long as possible which is why we went the new car, and a 5 year unlimited Kilometer warranty really got us.
In other news I am really liking admining my new server. It is so easy now to admin apache and bind. I didn't even get around to installing a web admin package everything by hand is easier. Heh and again deny-hosts did its thing and blocked some compromised zombies, or script kiddies. People really need to program there bots better, trying username: "root" and password: "password" repeatedly till you are blocked is about a smart as piece of granite.
Peace out all, even those on the darkside; the botmasters.

It's been a long time..I shouldn't have left you.

Lets see if I even remember how to do this
So it has been since November the year before last since I last posted. Admittedly my server did die, and I never got around to having time to fix it. Well now I have. New server, faster, better, stronger.
There has been a lot of change in the last 18+months. Geoffrey has a Sister; Anne Storey. Both are growing, and Geoffrey has started talking. All-be-it intermittently. He had an issue with his ears that we have fixed and now He says a plethora of things, his favorite, being numbers. He can count all the way to ten and back again, and we believe he can even read numbers. They are the universal language so I couldn't be more proud.
Anne has grown up a lot in the last 6months, it is incredible. She seems to be trying to communicate through raspberries. She is definitely Geoffrey's sister they are as cute as each other. She is enamored with her brother desperately watching him run around the room, and laughing at his antics, he even tries to make her laugh or gives her a hug or Eskimo kiss, when he isn't trying to steal her dummy.
Fiona has finished her first semester in Law and is loving it, as I knew she would.
I am still working as an IT consultant with Insight, and I finally finished my MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, you may ask why this server is hosted on Linux, well just cause I know MS doesn't mean I prefer it), not only that but I did my Security specialization. Yay ME. I am now working towards my CCNA, and my lab is getting better and larger and larger.
Seems more like that was a recap than a blog post, which I guess it was.
Peace out all.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful girrrlll

Welcome to the world my Beautiful daughter. Born this day at 2:55pm. Weighing 3.805kg, measuring in at 51cm (1cm taller than her brother).
Here is the new little Miss Storey:

Oh yeah she has her own domain, registered today (as is the tradition), the only one in the family with a non .com
www.annestorey.net
Peace out all, especially my Beautiful girls, Fiona and Anne.

The trials of Man and Machine.

The site and other sites hosted here as you may have noticed, has been down for an extended period.
Christmas was great, Geoffrey had lots of fun playing with his cousin Jack, Isabelle and Holly, running around as best he could. He has started to vocalise himself, but not in any way that we can yet understand. He seems very annoyed and repeats himself often. He has even started to shrug in his own cute little way.
There was a problem with the powersupply on my server which temporarily took two of the discs in my raid 5 array offline, taking down the array, rather than recover the minimal backups to it, in hope of recovering some of the data from the array I had to build a new hard drive storage case for r2d2, thus the time gap.
All back and good though. Lessons learnt and server better than it was before.
I recently attended the open day of the Linux Australia conference and helped out on the Ubuntu-AU stand. It was lots of fun, got to play around with some immersive computer technology, and got to play with the One Laptop per Child laptop... very cool.
Got to meet some people I have only heard about. Like Theodore Ts'o;one of the main designers of the ext3 file system, used fairly heavily in linux and I met Jono Bacon; One of the incredibly funny stars of LugRadio possibly the funniest audio shows I have heard since the GoonShow. He is also an avid free-software advocate, author and employed member of Canonical: Ubuntu's parent company. It was a great day and has pushed me to get some more stuff done here and in the community. A lot of my projects I had on hold have been started up this week, Stu and MrTeeny are being built, and I intend to try and run an Ubuntu stand at a local computer fair to get the word out.
So all in all it has been a busy while since I last posted. Peace out all.