Posted by Benjamin Close on February 5, 2009 under Country Living | 
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When deciding to build our home, Carly and I very quickly realised an Electric oven was not a practicle solution. With our electricity being generated from Solar, a standard electric oven using 2-3Kw of power per hour would drain our backup supply very rapidly. (We will only be generating about 10kw a day). Hence we [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on February 2, 2009 under OpenSource, UniSA | Be the First to Comment
Recently Ben and I have been trying to get a FreeBSD box to join an Active Directory domain. The domain controller was running Windows Server 2008. After a *lot* of stuffing around to get this working we finally found the solution to our problem – the version of samba. You see the problem we were [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 29, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment
A list of decisions we’ve made when designing our new house, to maximise thermal comfort for our climate zone.
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop | 3 Comments to Read
Recently I’ve been playing around with jhbuild. I wanted to jhbuild to use a custom branch from a git repo I’ve setup. Sadly the documentation on how to do this is a little lacking. Added to the fact that the jhbuild code drops an argument and there’s a lot of fun at work. The solution, [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 23, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment
After having the day off yesterday, Carly and I did a lot of ringing around to try and find out the state of things. Turns out that the second lot of engineering has now been done. Talking to Amanda at Format Homes, we were told that all had now been submitted to council – Which [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 21, 2009 under Country Living | 4 Comments to Read
Welcome to the first in many articles about the creation of Carly and my dream paradise at Lot 723, One Tree Hill Road, Gould Creek, South Australia, Australia On the 29th of August 2008, Carly and I became the proud owners of 16.8 acres of land at Gould Creek, South Australia. The block is located [..more..]
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One thing that has always bugged me about the free operating systems is a lack of notification when things go wrong. In particular I run a FreeBSD server at home that has a SATA RAID 1 using a Promise controller in particular: atapci0: <Promise PDC20371 SATA150 controller> port 0xc000-0xc03f,0xc400-0xc40f,0xc800-0xc87f mem 0xde031000-0xde031fff,0xde000000-0xde01ffff irq 11 at device [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 13, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment
Just a note that the gstreamer website has shifted from gabe -> annarchy. Added to this, moin has been upgraded to 1.7 and text catchpas have been added. DNS is now filtering through. Let me know if you find any issues.
