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last minute cruises
by Russell Coker 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

http://www.vacationstogo.com/ticker.cfm?t=y If you are thinking of a last minute new-year holiday then the above URL (which requires providing some details and enabling cookies) has a 13 day cruise on the Diamond Princess from Auckland to Sydney departing on the 29th of December for $US705 per person (assuming 2 people per cabin). Generally any cruise that is less than $100 per night is cheap, so $705 for 13 nights is really cheap. I've just been on the Dawn Princess, a smaller ship from the Princess line (so presumably the Diamond Princess is better in every way). The food in the Main Dining Room was better than you can get for a $100 meal anywhere in Melbourne (AFAIK, let me know if you are aware of any good restaurants you think I've missed). So if you book that cruise you can expect $1300+ of fine dining in addition to all the other cruise stuff. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Remote area power-supply; another option
by Rohan McLeod 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Just in case anyone is interested in my newest toy; a combination: 'jump-starter"; '400 watt 240 VAC inverter'...probably not sine-wave; air-compressor; running off a 18 AH lead-acid battery; all up weight `~ 8Kg;..... bit heavy for a bike I suppose ! pressure gauge, battery meter, 240 VAC and 12 V DC charging; caveats: 18AH = 18A x 12 Volt. Hr = 216 W.H = ~ 0.5 H at 400 watts and haven't timed the compressor yet, to see if it pumps up a car tyre in T =< 5 min ;; $150 at Autobarn ; regards Rohan McLeod

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Obsolete equipment query
by Mark Trickett 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hello all, I have a LanTech 500XD hub, and a power supply that may not match. I have tried googling and otherwise chasing, but the limits of a 56K modem make it troublesome. Can anyone let me know the correct power supply voltage? Even a pointer to a site or page would be very appreciated. I have looked at the LanTech current site, and they appear to have changed focus, no longer much on the consumer front. What I did see of interest, but not yet followed up, was fiber optic termination equipment, very good for WAN infrastructure. I will need to look again, but a 56K modem is a bit limiting on sites that require the graphics. At least I find them helpful as to some of the navigation. Regards, Mark Trickett

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Re: [luv-talk] Teaching children programming on mac
by Jason Lade 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Thank-you everyone for your comments. I remember learning to program on my zx-spectrum at the time and just wanted to get the children started with something simple. I've had them using Alice for a little while, but might look at some of those suggestions for something more traditional. Thanks for all the input. Best Regards Jason On 29/11/2011, at 12:11 PM, Gordon Heydon wrote: > Hi, > > Also I forgot to add, Scratch will run on anything, and my 10 Y/o had lots of fun with scratch. We have also started playing around with iOS development between us, which he has been designing the layouts and I have been adding the code behind the buttons. > > Gordon. > > On 29/11/2011, at 12:09 PM, Jason Lade wrote: > >> Thanks Gordon, >> >> That might be a little similar to Alice at http://www.alice.org. Will have a look at it. >> >> Thanks >> >> Regards >> >> Jason >> On 29/11/2011, at 12:07 PM, Gordon Heydon wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> The best one that I found found for kids is scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ which is a very visual drag and drop language, and helps kids work out how languages work and I think it is good starter before moving onto a more lower level language which is more text/coding based. >>> >>> Gordon. >>> >>> On 29/11/2011, at 12:02 PM, jason(a)docpc.com.au wrote: >>> >>>> I would like to start teaching my children programming. They have access >>>> to an iMac, I am thinking that now they old enough to learn a language. >>>> I've looked at the standard Mac programming. But it seems to complex to >>>> start them off on. Any suggestions? >>>> >>>> By the way the children's ages are 9 (boy) and 13 (girl). They are home >>>> schooled it would be great to be able to add another subject under their >>>> belt. >>>> >>>> If necessary I could create a virtual machine with linux running in it. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any suggestions. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> luv-talk mailing list >>>> luv-talk(a)lists.luv.asn.au >>>> http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk >>> >> >

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Teaching children programming on mac
by jason＠docpc.com.au 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

I would like to start teaching my children programming. They have access to an iMac, I am thinking that now they old enough to learn a language. I've looked at the standard Mac programming. But it seems to complex to start them off on. Any suggestions? By the way the children's ages are 9 (boy) and 13 (girl). They are home schooled it would be great to be able to add another subject under their belt. If necessary I could create a virtual machine with linux running in it. Thanks for any suggestions.

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Burning bootable ISO's to Flash cards and USB sticks..why so difficult ?
by Rohan McLeod 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Assembled cogniscenti; due to a problem with the USB DVD/ RW burner that I used to use for booting my eeePC 900; with various exotic OS's; I have of late been trying to 'burn' ISO files to flash-cards and USB sticks ie. SD memory. If I boot with EASEUS on a USB stick I can create an ISO image of a bootable drive; but when I come to 'burn' that image to a USB stick ; even when they do burn they mostly won't boot ........... obviously there is some complication which I am not understanding; thanks Rohan McLeod

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Problem:Constraining wireless access to router 'on-peak'
by Rohan McLeod 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Assembled illuminati: The naive networking problem is this; I have a very low cap 'HomeFibre Starter Plus' account with iPrimus; low cap being: 5GB/month 'on- peak' (noon to midnight) 10GB/month (midnight to noon). Since it doesn't cost me anything more; I have elected to share this account via wireless with 2 -4 other users gratis.I would like to restrict their access to 'off-peak' only...but 1/-manually switchng off wireless access on the Linksys E2000 router is possible; but too tedious. -after consultation with Cisco(Aust) it seems this device does not have the capacity to unconditionally switch off wireless during certain hours -but it does have the capacity to restrict certain LAN IP addresses during certain hours Now given that the other users are even more naive than myself, that is asking them for their LAN IP addresses would not be an easy path; can any one suggest a method of gathering these addresses ? any suggestions welcome, regards Rohan Mcleod

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Ruxcon
by Russell Coker 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

I'll be at Ruxcon today and tomorrow if anyone wants to meet for lunch. NB It's fully booked so anyone who hasn't registered can't attend. But anyone who's in the area for other reasons could meet some of us for lunch anyway. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Retrieval of data from an old tape
by Colin Fee 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

I'm posting this on behalf of a work colleague who has asked the following: "Good Morning, I have a request from <name withled> to retrieve some data from an old tape reel. It's on a Memorex MRX-V half inch 6250 BPI (bits per inch) magnetic tape reel. The tape contains data from his PHD. He has had it mounted once here at Monash on a Burroughs machine in 1990. At the time he viewed the data through his Vaxc account. Can anyone recommend a commercial service to retrieve the data, or have access to a functioning museum relic that might do the job?" If anyone has anything they can add please contact Greg directly (I've set the Reply-to: to his address). Regards, Colin Fee.

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Site access problem
by Rohan McLeod 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Just looking for some diagnostic suggestions: Problem: When trying to access my Telstra mobile account info at: https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/overview on two different machines 1/ both machines running XP (apologies) 2/ both machines running SeaMonkey and InternetExplorer(fall back only) 3/ both machines machines with ethernet connection to Linksys E2000; on Iprimus 'Home Fibre StarterPlus' account In both SeaMonkey and IE: -machine 1: old slow desk-top accesses site OK -machine 2 eeePC laptop just sits with circling dots..forever any ideas welcome thanks Rohan McLeod

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