http://www.seekbrain.com Brain Seeking at it's Best Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:46:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No, I will not pay $45 to renew a domain. I found it interesting that this came with an Australian postal address which is (for the Google bait: 189 Queen Street, Suite 209, Melbourne) a bit interesting given that this registrar is trying to take my legitimately held (and nowhere ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2011/01/31/lol-domain-renewal/ Brisbane CBD is all but abandoned. Previously manned police outposts have packed up and left. Albert Street is currently under a foot of water. The ferry stop ramp is completely submerged: And the Jade Buddha carpark ain't going to be taking traffic anytime soon: Meanwhile water is starting to flow out of ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2011/01/12/brisbane-cbd-january-12-2350/ Latest photo, levels don't appear to have increased again but that has to be put in the context that the tides actually going out and the water isn't going down. Tonight will be very interesting indeed. http://www.seekbrain.com/2011/01/12/flood-levels-unchanged-6pm-jan-12-2011/ So, I'll start this off, I'm currently in the middle of the Brisbane CBD monitoring one of the many datacentres located within the city. We're on the 21st floor of a non-inundated (yet anyway) building but water is starting to lap all around us. The Brisbane river is starting to ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2011/01/12/brisbane-floods-2011/ So, Cloud Central is running a public beta at the moment so I grabbed an account and decided to do some tests. Cross copying from the wiki page I created on their site: Initial impressions - Nice GUI - Xen based virtual machines - Asked for a Nano which has 16GB of storage but it ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2010/01/07/cloud-central-performance-testing/ Trevor Rose has written a nice piece on VC's, Inventors & the business issues faced when taking an idea or invention into a product. The timing on this article is surreal since I myself am facing what I'd call 'inventive hurdles' whereby I have to try and figure out the business/financial ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2009/10/04/wow-2/ I'm not a Apple fan boi by any stretch of the imagination and have day-to-day experience with running in multiple email environments (including Exchange, Courier-IMAP and Zarafa) but for personal mail at least MobileMe looks like a serious contender. For ~$200/yr both Sal and I can get integration with our iphones, ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2009/06/24/i-think-were-switching-to-mobileme/ Heya, They've taken it down again now but WebHostingTalk.com has been hacked. I have obtained a publically posted copy of the WHT-US user database and verified the content in it is authentic. ANY Password used by WHT-US members is now 'in the open'. Change everything quickly, good luck to WHT.com. Stu http://www.seekbrain.com/2009/03/24/wht-us-exploited/ Someone asked on WHTAU about SAN stuff and I figured, well, I'll post it here too. Ok, talking about SANs this is an area I don't know much about it... If you grab yourself a fiber channel SAN hock it up to a few of your servers which have the required ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2009/03/21/storage-musings/ I've upgraded Wordpress to the most recent version, ditched the broken template and loaded this one. Cleaned up dead users, cleaned up crap comments. Hopefully things are much nicer now. http://www.seekbrain.com/2009/01/28/and-now/ Ok, So, I was looking at tarvos.seekbrain.com (the host that serves these pages) and it was sitting at a load of 1.5 constantly. This box is only a single proc hyperthreaded box so for something which overall gets very few hits this was strange and when I was trying to get ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2009/01/27/dont-you-guys-have-anything-better-to-do/ What do you do when you have a GPS receiver and a wireless card? Well, naturally, you hook it up with Google Maps and see what it looks like.Introducing, Goofi! It's all very Betaish now but basically it does the following:- Collection occurs using some rather nasty collection scripts correlating ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2008/05/21/goofi/ Heya,For those with a Toshiba laptop (one of the ones with a native resolution of 1280x800) and an inbuilt Intel i965, I thought I'd dump my xorg.conf here. I found this device reported a non existent TV output which was stuffing up X's ability to maintain the correct resolution. Remember, ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2007/11/29/toshiba-m600-xorg-configuration/ Well well, sending this from my new laptop.. Will be uploading last update soon. Adios, Stu http://www.seekbrain.com/2007/11/13/new-laptop/ Bonjour! On the 23rd we had a sleep in and in the afternoon explored Domfront which is an ancient walled village and was very pretty. The next day we went to Arromanche to see where the artificial floating harbour was constructed by the Allies and we also visited the 360 ... http://www.seekbrain.com/2007/11/07/final-leg-part-4/