Just my observation that trains have been consistantly 5+ minutes late since the start of the school holidays (9th April). 10+ minutes late or cancelled is more usual. Except for the occasional day when everything is almost on time. Thursday is normally the worse day of the week. Today was no exception to this rule.

Traditionally, Unix daemons communicate to the sysadmin in one of two ways. Either by logging something to a file, or by emailing the user. This has meant every system requires a MTA to be installed, configured, and working. However, a full scale MTA is often an overkill for many systems, e.g. why should a web server require a MTA that can do everything possible when all that is required is to forward the output of cron jobs to a system admin? There is no need to deliver mail locally, and no need to queue mail either, your mail server can do that. To have a complicated solution for a simple problem means that things are more likely to break and/or create security issues.

I went to Brisbane to visit LCA2011.

Several weeks ago I purchased an Amazon Kindle DX. As expected it has some significant benefits, some limitations, and some anti-features. I decided to document these here.

I went to Wellington to visit LCA2010.

Earlier May this year, we went to Paynesville to fix up Grandma’s old house.