marxy's musing on technology

I have a headless Fedora linux box that plugs in to my home network and gets an IP address from DHCP. To find it I've been pinging the b...

My 14 hour flight arrived at 6:20am on Monday morning at Sydney International airport. I got to a taxi at 8am. It's not the time that bo...

It was a friendly crowd, friendly staff, and friendly security guards. Other shoppers stood on the level above watching the queue wait pati...

It's Wednesday, two days before launch, and I thought I'd predict the stories that we'll see over the coming weeks and months in...

Obesity : It must be hard to not get huge here. A lot of people carry a lot of weight. The meal servings are enormous. I had a salad for lun...

These giant iPhones are in the window of the local Apple store here. They play a full demo movie that looks great.  I commented to the guy ...

I attended a great session on Bonjour at the WWDC presented by my hero Stuart Cheshire . The dream of zeroconf is that you can simply plug a...

The Apple conference was huge this year. A record of more than 5,000 attendees. Fantastically organised but it's so big that there were ...

Perhaps I'm naive, but it does seem amazing to me that when travelling these days it's perfectly practical to video conference the k...

I've been going to the NSW Home Brew group recently and last meeting I took a digital recorder along and spoke to some of the members ab...

It's always great to visit San Francisco. It's such a cosmopolitan place. The streets are full of interesting people. Oddly a few pe...

Ben put me on to a gem in the new iTunes U area. There are freely available university lectures available and I've been watching the w...

Here are my initial impressions of Fedora 7 final on a modern Intel motherboard with built in video, ethernet and sound. I grabbed the torr...

Attended the mini field day at the WIA NSW Dural site today. Beautiful weather for it, a good turn out, got some useful bits and pieces thou...

Since having a wisdom tooth out on Tuesday I've been laying low this week and took the opportunity to construct a kit. Shown at right du...

I saw Dom Bragge's posting about a 2m J-Pole antenna made out of 300 ohm TV ribbon and thought I'd give it a go. Although the desi...

Spotted this wonderful book this morning. "The Nature of Photographs" by Stephen Shore, subtitled "A Primer". The reprod...

Finally making progress on the NSW Home Brew group's 80m challenge project to build a 20W 80m AM transmitter. I'm a bit daunted as ...

As part of my elaborate procrastination about learning morse code I've started writing my own tutor program for MacOS X. So far it sound...

Python decorators are a wonderful syntax for wrapping one function in another. I had a bit of trouble understanding the documentation, which...