I have nearly completed an article on Monitoring Bigpond Broadband usage with mrtg in Windows. It is published, but I still think it needs a bit of polish. It is the first proper article I have written for a long time. I liked it.
Author: darryn
Zen II
Ok, I have done a bit more reading and thinking, and I am starting to form a picture of what it might be. I think that the reason it is so difficult for me to accept is that the whole point of Zen is to think in an intuitive way that is totally in opposition… Continue reading Zen II
Monitoring Bigpond Broadband usage with mrtg (Windows)
[update 23/7/2004: TristanK has added to the script to remove the requirement for lynx. A thousand thanks.] Bigpond Broadband* is a cable/adsl ISP in Australia. As with almost all Australian ISPs, they provide a limit on the number of megabytes that a user may download in a month. In order to help a user monitor… Continue reading Monitoring Bigpond Broadband usage with mrtg (Windows)
Zen
A monk, taking a bamboo stick, said to the people, “If you call this a stick, you fall into the trap of words, but if you do not call it a stick, you contradict facts. So what do you call it?”Answer: At that time a monk in the assembly came forth. He snatched the stick,… Continue reading Zen
Joint Operations
This is not a review. I bought this game last week and I would have to say that I am addicted. As the quote on their homepage says: It is my Battlefield 1942 replacement, not that I have played Battlefield for a while. As usual, Spong got me onto the game through his blog. [Update… Continue reading Joint Operations
i just realised
why is it that almost all of the blogs that I read are powered by .text? Surely this is not the dominating blogging engine out there?
OMFG! Google is down!
I cannot get to google. Tristan cannot get to google. I cannot get there from home, from work, or from an anonymous proxy in the US. Has there been some kind of war? [Update 11:44] microsoft.com and yahoo.com also seem to be affected, all three are up and down like a yoyo. I am off… Continue reading OMFG! Google is down!
Cheery Cheer
Since my early teens I have preferred diet soft drinks to the sugar kind. Back in the 80’s this meant that I was drinking Diet Coke, but as time has progressed the range of diet drinks has increased. With the advent of the Atkins diet, and mass sugar avoidance, I have been pleased to see… Continue reading Cheery Cheer