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My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
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Bones the soppy pup and I
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Joey, Sam and Liz
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Sam & Liz
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Sam & Liz
Antivirus evaluation
Quiet day evaluation CA’s eTrust anti-virus software. Unfortunately it seems to all rely on a vast infrastructure of Microsoft Windows networking, manual entry of user-codes, and manual duplication of the organisational structure already present in the Novell NDS.
A meeting of minds
It had to happen eventually… I was halfway home, flying along the Gardiners Creek bike path and I met Marko coming the other way. Luckily we were both on the left hand side, unlike some of the riders I meet each day — Marko’s a remarkably solid lad, I’d hate to hit him head-on at the speed we were both going.
Went to see a movie last night, The Bank. Lots of laughs throughout and it certainly touched a common feeling of anti-bank sentiment in the Australian public.
MLP
[http://www.ucch.org/peds-www/is/cscott.html]: Cory L. Scott — Microsoft NT security information. [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winlog/]: Windows NT Event Logging — the Oreilly book. Must add it to the list of books to get. [http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/WinNTConfig/index.html]: WindowNT Config — step-by-step approach to locking down Microsoft operating systems. [http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/Win2kConfig/]: Windows2000 Config — step-by-step approach to locking down Microsoft operating systems.
Post house-moving
I ache all over! As Marko said during part two of the War Against the Mattress, if we did this a couple more times we’d get really fit. As it is, two days of furniture and box moving, then unpacking and repacking bookcases, has left me feeling several hundred years old.
I would add a reference to the café where we had an excellent steak dinner last night, but for some reason I can’t even find them in the Telstra white pages, or in citysearch.
A bit like Christmas…
A bit like Christmas… now that the flat is full of boxes of things, we’ve had to spend the entire day unpacking them, sorting the contents out, then finding places to put it all!
Hopefull the final campaign in the War Against the Mattress has now taken place, with one bed taken apart and moved into the spare room, and the other bed being assembled and the evil mattress placed into its final resting place.
The War Against the Mattress
A day of lifting and lugging. With the aid of a few close friends Jo’s remaining boxes of belongings and pieces of furniture were stuffed into a car and a van and transported back to the flat.
The most exciting part of this was the great War Against the Mattress, a battle in at least three parts. As per some requirement known only to the mattress-makers guild of Australia, there were no handles on the mattress, so Marko and I manoeuvred the recalcitrant beast out of its upstairs lair and convinced it to wobble earthwards without getting caught on any of the picture hooks in the stairway.
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Joey in bed
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Nettie's housewarming, Melbourne city view
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Nettie's housewarming, Mr Mav cooking
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Nettie's housewarming
Work, work, work…
A purely reactive day. More anti-virus work to be done, more datafile updates to be downloaded and configured. The sooner we can dump this ‘orrible product the better.
Another motorist, another red-light runner
Cycled to work and guess what, another driver tried to flatten me where the cycle path crosses Malvern road. I’m getting sick of this sequence. Stop, wait, light goes orange, wait, light goes red, wait, cycle path light goes green, start to ride across intersection, stop and scream abuse as maroon Commodore, Vic. ###-### drives straight through the red without slowing down.
Worklike stuff
More time spent analysing virus-detection logs, attempting to automate the production of reports from them.
The Networks group are commisioning Statscout to monitor all our devices via SNMP, as a result I can take some of the traffic monitoring out of the ITS MRTG graphs.
A bit of this, a bit of that
More predictable Melbourne drivers. Today it was raining in the morning, therefore someone had driven into someone else on the Monash freeway, therefore traffic was banked up from Clayton back to Toorak.
A day of electronic bill paying… and a little gentle stirring of large organizations. After trying to pay my Citipower account via the online B-Pay system and being told that the company didn’t allow credit card payments, I can then call a toll free number and pay with my credit card.
MLP
http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Millennium/mgoals.html: Millenium Microsoft Research’s Goals for future operating systems. Interesting thoughts, too bad that what comes out of the product department seems to be somewhat diluted by the marketing department.
Bah, idiots in tin boxes
Today we have another shining example of Melbourne’s finest drivers. Silver Holden Commodore, (Vic. ###-###), at first I wondered what he was doing, attempting to drag me off from the lights on Dandenong road. Then I realised as he swerved in at me: the left-turn only lane didn’t apply to him, he could have just slowed and gone in behind me, but it was more important for him to ram the motorbike out of the way so he could go straight ahead and on down Dandenong road at 110 ㎞/h in the 80 ㎞/h zone.
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Marko and Lesley, after a day at Melbourne Show
Webbage
More success in my never-ending battle with PSGML, SGML and Xemacs. I’ve finally discovered how to set sgml-parent-document in order to correctly edit SGML fragments from within Xemacs.
Mayhem in the office all day, the combination of air-conditioning installation, broken security alarms, and just general Friday-ness resulted in more than usual levels of interruption.
MLP
http://memepool.com/: Interesting collection of information
Life, and work
Interesting postcard arrived in the mail today from Joey. The New York city skyline… that’ll need adjusting on the next batch of cards.
[3D Flight over Switzerland Using an ActiveX plugin, so it only works under Windows IE at the moment. Finally got to see Moulin Rouge this evening, lots of sound and light and colour, and I loved the songs made of other song fragments. An audience of seven, three couples and me, and one of the couples talked incessantly the whole way through!
Success x 2
Two successes. A good day. They’re not even in the same league though.
First, Joey called from Vermont and we spent half an hour on the phone. Despite all, she’s having a great time, saw some whales near Cape Cod and is now in the forests, where she’s seen a skunk and is now on the lookout for mooses.
Second, with a little fiddling and help from http://my.gnus.org, I’ve got both IMAP and HTTP traffic out of wyvern to be tunneled via SSL.
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Marko and Lesley
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Marko and Lesley
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Lesley and the roast
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Women in red at Mel's party
Power
Sat down to try and get my home PC — wyvern — to use Linux kernel 2.4 and was halfway through fiddling about when the power supply just upped and died. I guess that means I won’t be getting that going anytime soon.
MLP http://www.garmin.com/: The eTrek was mentioned as being a useful GPS to own.
MLP — Bookmarks for [2001-09-06 Thu]
Music David Bridie The Dave Graney Show Hugh Cornwell, ex. Strangler Kraftwerk
Open plan pain
Nearly impossible to get anything done this morning. The open plan area is getting more and more noisy.
MLP http://www.davidbridie.com.au/: David Bridie http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com/: The Dave Graney Show http://www.hughcornwall.com/: Hugh Cornwell, ex Strangler http://www.kraftwerk.com/: Kraftwerk
Pothole news
A miracle! The pothole on Gardiner road near the Nott has been filled in. That pothole has been a feature of my trip to Monash for the last five years, I can remember being driven through it on my way to a job interview here in April 1996!
TLA and ETLA
I wonder how many more ETLAs I can come up with this week for titles of the day’s entry?
http://www.snmplink.org/:
http://www.winsnmp.org/:
http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/: Ugly colour scheme, but lots of information on SNMP for the Public Community. Predominantely Windows and NetWare.
Decided to log all the odds and sodds regarding moving into the new flat.
Work Another stunnel problem with the laptop. After booting it up in a standalone configuration and then plugging it in, I had to issue a net stop stunnel, net start stunnel in order to make it connect.
Docbook
Still digging around trying to find out how to author documents in Docbook format, then export them as HTML with a common look and feel. So far the DSSSL and XSL stuff looks to have a steep learning curve!
SGML for NT :: A brief tutorial how to set up a free SGML editing and publishing system for Windows NT.
The Debian SGML/XML Howto:
http://www.docbook.org/: The main repository of Docbook material
Lease day
More MRTG mods, after queries from the Faculty of Law, added the network traffic from ITS-MENZ3 to the things that are monitored.
Thor
http://www.cryptoapps.com/: More interesting stuff, predominately Cryptographic Appliances as the name implies. A series of articles from IBM’s developerworks on redesigning the Gentoo web site using XML and XSLT. In four parts [1] [2] [3] and [4].
Vet updates to South Africa are working again, now that I’ve created the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2 files for the cruxnds account.
Stunnel: Just had stunnel crash and sit there, I had to manually issue a net stop stunnel then net start stunnel to get it going again.
Work
The experimental stunnel to the proxies takes a further step, we now have it running on one of the real proxy machines. CJW to ask the security group to test.
Another afternoon with me holding the hot-line phone, another day where nobody calls it, preferring to pick random names and numbers out of the air.
[http://www.mrtg.org/] Updated the main server status page and MFS07 details that had changed.
Plumber
“Ross the plumber” called this morning. I called him back and went through the following conversation:
I was there six months ago wasn’t I?
No, it was actually April last year.
Aren’t you on the ground floor on the corner near the garage?
No, I’m on the first floor.
I’ll have to arrange a time to come and take a look at the place.
A plumber came and looked at the place and took a report back about a fortnight ago.
Bloggy stuff
I think I’ve got the docs pages to use a two column style that nicely mimics the three column one of the blog. It looks fine in Mozilla, IE6 beta is problematic, the style sheet I’ve based it on has an ugly hack to get around bugs in IE5.5, maybe they’ve been fixed in 6…
Using srvany.exe I’ve got stunnel.exe running as a service on Win2k.
Dodgy real-estate agent practices Surprise surprise — 16:58 and the real-estate agent calls up.
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Rainforest, Lorne, Australia
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Rainforest, Lorne, Australia
About
ajft looking stylish and black
…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
…The ISP
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