Author: joelh

Try and change the netmask of a computer overseas. It leads to much pain and waking up at 3am to ring the states.

That’s awesome.

I recently developed an application in django. Django is a full featured web framework for python, including ORM, automatic admin interface, URL mapper, template and caching systems. Basically if you want to write a blog, or a web forum, or an online poll you will find django to be an incredibly efficient and speedy way…

If your MBR is wiped out the easiest solution is to re-install grub. If you have a “rescue” disk this may be simple, but in my experience it almost never is. The solution is to install boot with knoppix, mount your root partition and mount the /dev/ and /proc/ directories inside the chroot. Depending on…

If you use Debian as much as I do you may have been searching for a utility or function with apt and dpkg that can tell you which package provides a particular file. The utility is called apt-file and it is an absolute life saver. It is not part of the apt system, it caches…

If you are anything like me you have read far too many opinion articles on what it is that caused the Cronulla incident. The choicest quote came from Cate Blanchett who gave us this gem: “It’s actually very clear and simple. Violence and racism are bad,” she said. “Whenever they occur, they are to be…

To celebrate here are some screenshots of my adventures.

New York Times article and an article by a guy who made friends with farmers. I met my first farmer the other day these guys are fascinating. He was the master looter but he still gave out everything fairly. I only knew he was a farmer because he all he ever said was “Go” or…

Our shame is our media, especially the Sydney Morning Herald who printed this article over the weekend filled with racist quotes and with the text message that told everyone to go to Cronulla. How many would have shown up if that article hadn’t been printed? Reading the article you can see how merely printing someone…

A company called Nethercomm thinks it can do 1Tb of data through gas pipes.