auug – Made by Mikal

AUUG 2006 Slack talk

I gave a talk on how Google deploys software configuration to machines at AUUG 2006, and this reminded me to put the slide deck and paper online. So, here they are: slides in PowerPoint and PDF, as well as the conference paper.

Update: Now with URLs that are correct! Sorry for the cut and paste error…

AUUG 2006 NSLU2 hacking talk

I just gave my Linksys NSLU2 hacking talk at AUUG 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. You can find the slides online (powerpoint and PDF) as well as the paper (PDF).

Travel details so far

So, it looks at the moment like my travel schedule for the next month will look a bit like this:

30 September: Arrive in Canberra
3 October: Melbourne for LUV meeting
4 October: Return to Canberra
10 October: Melbourne for AUUG conference
13 October: Sydney
26 October: Canberra for CLUG meeting
27 October: Return to Sydney, SLUG meeting
2 November: Return to Mountain View

Let me know if you’re interested in meeting up when I am around.

AUUG 2006

There seems to have been some controversy over the future of AUUG, mainly caused by delays in organising some aspects of the conference, and Greg Lehey sending some email asking if it is time to wind up AUUG. I thought I should just post and say that I am speaking at AUUG 2006 and certainly intend to attend.

14 November 2003

Cooking salmon

Last night I cooked with fresh salmon for the first time. I did it on the barbeque. The basic method was:

Preheat the barbie on low
Lightly butter the side of the salmon you’re going to cook first
Chuck the salmon steaks onto the grill part of the barbie
Wait three minutes
Rotate 90 degrees
Wait two minutes
Lightly butter the side that is facing you
Flip
Wait two minutes
Eat

Here’s a sample of how mine turned out:

Syncing FAT filesystems of MMC cards via USB

Why does it take so long? A 64 MB change took in the order of minutes to respond to a sync command.

Siemens SL42 MP3 playlist format

Creating the playlists for the inbuilt MP3 player for my Siemens SL42 is painful at best when you try to use the phone keypad. Basically, there’s no way to say “randomly play everything” unless you use a playlist, and to create a playlist with the phone you need to select each song individually. Anyways, so I mounted the MMC on my trusty laptop, and it turns out the playlist format is trivial. Here’s what I did:

mount /mnt/mmc
cd /mnt/mmc/mp3
rm aaa.mpl
for item in `ls *.mp3`
do
  echo $item >> aaa.mpl
done
unix2dos aaa.mpl

In other words, all you need is a DOS line ending file which lists the MP3 files to play.

AUUG National Committee meeting

In Sydney…