Hypothetically speaking, if you needed to write a four hour long presentation (probably around 200 slides), shared with another speaker, and wanted to keep the style consistent and conforming with your approved corporate style, how would you do it? I’m thinking of some sort of intermediate language, which can then be used to generate slides…
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…
Cat, bag, out
So, I guess the cat is out of the bag then… Stewart and I are working on the finishing stages of a book on MythTV. Amazon now has it listed for pre-order. [btags:]
In Sydney!
So now I am in Sydney, with Grant and Lindsay (old friends from Canberra). Newtown seems nice, in fact the house itself is very nice. However, the streets are pretty Victorian and built up, which is a bit oppressive. Then again, I am told there are a bunch of parks I haven’t seen yet, so…
Beware the concierge at the Rendezvous Hotel!
Heh, he cancelled my hire car booking without my knowledge or permission. Then when it was fixed, the car company tried to bill me $100 for cancelling. It took a while to sort out…
MythArchive, best failure mode ever!
So, you’re creating a native archive with MythArchive. You’ve never run it before, so you just give it a go. It can’t write data files to the place the videos are at, so what is it’s failure mode? Well, how about trying to change permissions on every file on the machine? Lovely. 2006-10-13 22:32:23.025 Options…
Anyone for chicken?
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).
Qantas site
Is it just me, or is the Qantas website crazy slow?
Slides from the NSLU2 talk at LUV
Here is the slide deck I used for the NSLU2 hacking talk when I gave it at LUV the other night: australia_melbourne_luv_nslu2.ppt.