Posts for February 2006
So I've been getting all interested in IPv6 lately...
...Not that being interested is likely to actually help anyone work the bloody thing out. All the articles and documentation and HOWTO guides are so incredibly complicated that it's no wonder noone actually uses it yet.
Anyhow, my "ISP" (Which is a legal company, but from an IP point of view amounts to a guy sharing his DSL line) naturally doesn't provide any kind of IPv6 connectivity, so I've signed up for SixXS who provide a magical IPv6-over-a-NAT-traversable-tunnel service, so if I get approved they'll give me an address or two and I can really start playing with it.
Apparently the approval isn't quite so simple though.. Reportedly when these tunnel services first started up, most people were using them just to get BigSchlong!BigSchlong@i.done.ur.mum.hehe.example.com idents for IRC, so the approval process has become rather strict. You have to sign up for a real RIPE account and everything first, and you can't be using an email address that isn't from a real ISP.
Well my "real" ISP doesn't actually give out email addresses, surprise surprise! .. I gave them my junkheap address though, I hope that'll do .. The domain's 6 years old so it doesn't look too fly-by-night. :)
Soon I'm gonna write a little primer thang for anybody interested in IPv6, on how to set up a private LAN in the traditional 192.168.0.0/24 style. The theory behind IPv6 was that this kind of thing would become unnecessary and eventually disappear, but of course with the lack of actual connectivity and address assignment going on, a real IPv6 solution is still a long way off.
Posted by Andrew on
27/02/2006 @ 06:00 +1100
Tags: tech, ipv6
So we had a sort of combined bucks/hens night this past Saturday at Bungalow 8 in Cockle Bay. There was much drinking, and even some hot girl on girl action!
You can check out the other photos on Flickr.
Also I have added tags to Junkheap. Not sure what that'll achieve, but it's very Web 2.0. Make us an offer and we'll sell it all! A few hundred page views a day guaranteed!
Posted by Marcin on
21/02/2006 @ 11:07 +1100
Tags: blog, site news
Okay, so everybody's going nuts over this Vanity Fair cover:
..and why not. It's got Scarlett Johansson naked, it's got Keira Knightley naked, it's got Tom Ford.
Tom Fucking Ford?! What the ...
But really, I'm actually quite distressed by this picture. Even the most amateur photographer knows that by flat-lighting a subject, you lose almost all of its detail. Curves, bends, and texture all disappear... and how is Scarlett lit? Flat as buggery, that's how. For the first time in her life, someone has managed to make her look kinda plumpish!
This is a woman who probably weighs less that a Grande Latte from Starbucks, in her first ever naked photo shoot, and some limp cocked moron has destroyed the whole bloody thing by forgetting the first thing he learnt at celebrity-nude-photo-school.
At least the New York Post published a version where the edge of her nipple hasn't been airbrushed out.
ehehe Scarlett Johansson's nipple. Ehheeh.
Posted by Andrew on
08/02/2006 @ 20:57 +1100
Tags: celebrity, scarlett johansson, keira knightley, nipple
Previously on Junkheap, I posted a link to Audiophile Idiocy. I found this CD today when looking for Dobly Digital test stuff. Are they serious?! Do people buy these things?!
Posted by Marcin on
07/02/2006 @ 21:14 +1100
Tags: audio, links
Mmm.. calorific. This Snickers Pie recipe was mentioned in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Stats include: 1,200 calories per piece, 22tsp of fat, 11tsp sugar! It seems the BBC site has pulled the recipe and it throws a 404. It's still in the Google Cache, so I've decided to record it here for all eternity (or until I flush the database).
Continue reading Recipe: Snickers Pie
Posted by Marcin on
06/02/2006 @ 18:33 +1100
Tags: recipe, dessert
Word to your mothers.
Last weekend I went to Krynica and stood on a snowboard for the first time.
Quickly afterwards I fell off again.
This pattern continued for about half an hour, during which I managed to bang up my knees pretty severely and test the snowproofness of my clothing to a degree which probably wouldn't be considered "normal wear" under the terms of the clothing's 1000-year guarantee.
All in all, though, after about 2 hours on the snow, I was riding pretty 'normally' .. No problems going or stopping (face down on occasion, but I still stopped..) .. turning is another matter. I was having a lot of trouble with "Toe-side" turns (where your toes are in the snow and your heels are in the air) .. but it turned out that what I felt were comfortable if not-entirely-tight boots were probably a contributing factor. If you're turning on your heels then your weight is transferred straight to the board and the bindings hold your legs in the right place, but on the toe-side you rely on your boots to hold you, and mine weren't. Just something you have to live with when you hire all your gear. :)
One thing I bought before I went was gloves with built-in soft wrist guards. I had read a bit about this beforehand and given that a basic model with wrist protection didn't cost much more than a decent pair without, it seemed like a good idea.
Another invaluable thing was a home-made bumpad .. in fact I think my bum was the only thing which suffered little or no injury.
Without question there will be a next time, and if I'm lucky there'll be many more after that. But before next time I'll be buying some knee guards too.
Posted by Andrew on
05/02/2006 @ 21:11 +1100
Tags: holidays, snowboarding
Just some random crap about the recent happenings with my home theatre setup.
Continue reading Home Theatre
Posted by Marcin on
02/02/2006 @ 22:53 +1100
Tags: audio, home theatre
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