Consider this.

wow!

I like this place

Loading 'Electric Sheep' was as sure to bring on nightmares for sleeping computers, as the Cybermen are to a 6 year old child. It was my sheep that did it. They escaped the bounds of the virtual world and materialized in the UPS facilities of the data center. They nored their way through the mains cable on Number 3 UPS, so DW had to call in the Doctor; you know, shit happens. And although the Dreamhost did not die, it was forced to power down. Which caused much loss of sheep and sleep, resulting in many emails to the blogosphere.

Hate screen savers... I do. But I love this one.

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the Internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

http://electricsheep.org/

Gutenprint 5.0 the new name for Gimp Print...

It's a UNIX printer driver for both the Linux and MAC X and it produces some of the best prints I have ever seen.

My mate was printing panoramas on his Epson 1800 from the Mac and discovered that the Epson driver had a limit of 44" in length. Gutenprint not only resolved the length limit but produced prints that exceeded the Epson driver's results by a long margin.

Now had he taken the hint when I gave him a CD of Gutenprint a month earlier then... but no I went over and did it for him.

http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/index.php3

There is an old saying... Put the info about the assignment at the top of the page...

Did I do this... ARRR NO!

As a result I did 2 assignments for the price of one.

GAWD slap me!

It took a while to promote throughout the uni group but the the pennies have started dropping. Yes we have del.icio.us!

Have you seen my del.icio.us? Have you opened a del.icio.us? Have you linked to me?

http://del.icio.us/akayani

Under Chernobyl you will find a couple of fantastic but shocking sites of B&W still pictures. One varies between 1 and 3 pictures per screen and uses a very effective method of horizontal scrolling.

It's also an excellent log in itself of what I've been looking at over the past months.

Christmas with the family, Uncle Yani does computer games for the kids. New Year, the Fruits Dance Party in Lismore. Looks like I have a good 20 years before I'll be the oldest person on the dance floor. Came home via the Lions Road and stayed with the mentor Dr Crooks. We might have had a few drinks over the week. Then back to Brisbane and an instant dose of the flu. Some who know me would say I deserved that. And then my Birthday. Or should I say my Birthweek.

I created a Jabber server and downloaded the client software, Pandion. I can see potential for this in the future. Using a Jabber server you can provide access to IM for a corporate environment and restrict your users to only the contacts (internal) that you want them to use. It not always desirable to provide people with IM services that enable access to the Internet at large. NET11 points for me with that one. Goes well beyond just having a play with ICQ.

http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.shtml

The easy way... just buy a Macintrash with everything preloaded.

The hard way... start with a Vista RC1, have it expire and then try to replace it with Linux. GAWD!

Make it even hard by starting with a disk from a magazine cover. Only to discover when it boots that you are using a cut down version of ubuntu... aka xubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/

Download the server version and then discover that the CD burning module for ubuntu fails to process ISO files correctly. Track back home and burn an ISO under Windows. Oh yes my Macfriend sitting beside me is most amused.

What a distraction this has been...

"Post the results in a blog..."

Well I've got a blog on Windows Live... http://akayani.spaces.live.com/ But I didn't think that was the place for NET11 LOL.

And I'd set up a web site with a blog for my last assignment. For this I used WordPress http://wordpress.org/ as it was an auto install on the host server and seems appropriate. Site - http://handfoto.com/ Blog - http://handfoto.com/blog/

As Joomla http://joomla.org/ was the other auto install I tried that next. This had some nice features but used tables and the style sheets and templates were a little difficult to get your head around.

Reporting as per the specific requirements of the NET 11 Modules

Module 1
Module 2-5

The assignment that didn't make the grade...

WebCT and the Learning Environment