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Re: Motor up to Chateaubelair

tumbleweed — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:11:51 -0000

And yeah, a month in it still feels good. It helps having friends visit, and new countries to explore, to keep things interesting.

Re: Motor up to Chateaubelair

tumbleweed — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:00:13 -0000

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing as I wrote that.

I'm sure we'll end up with some waterproof cameras. Underwater photography adds another level of difficulty to a dive, of course. But it would be nice to play around with, at some point.

Re: Down to SVG

tumbleweed — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 07:00:04 -0000

A few things, first the Tobago Cays. The marine park there is quite stunning and we wanted to take Connor and Robin to see it. Our friend Mark just got there, so we'll meet up.
We also want to get out and see some more of the St. Vincent Island, we weren't able to hire a car when we were there before...

Yeah, St. Lucia looks fascinating. Many people skip it because of the crime (lots of theft from yachts, some violent), but we'll have to visit.

Re: Down to SVG

tumbleweed — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:32:22 -0000

Yeah, I had no idea that happened until they told us about it.
We added a Facebook page that may be easier to follow: https://www.facebook.com/pr...

Re: Goodbye Sarah!

tumbleweed — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:00:51 -0000

Mr Curly, after the cartoons of Michael Leunig. Mr Curly always stayed at home while his friends went on adventures, this was a way for him to go on an adventure. And I think the previous owner's previous yachts were also named after Leunig characters.

Re: To Martinique

tumbleweed — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:37:47 -0000

Added a picture of it. It's the "Q" flag.

Re: Montreal comp sci student reports massive bug, is expelled and threatened with arrest for checking to see if it had been fixed

tumbleweed — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:12:17 -0000

Sadly, this sounds vaguely familiar. When I was in undergrad, I noticed that there were many personal details publicly visible in my University's LDAP directory. The University had a front end for staff in LDAP, but not students.

So, I made a nice front-end for browsing the student directory. It was very useful for managing student society membership (and probably stalking, if you were into that kind of thing). It had a disclaimer, saying where the data was coming from, and I spread the word about it, assuming the IT department would eventually notice, and lock down the LDAP ACLs.

Eventually word reached the high echelons of the IT department, and they were very upset. Thankfully, I was lucky. All I had to do was take the front-end down, and write them a letter of apology to avoid them taking me to the University court. Of course, I sucked up, and thankfully that was the end of that. Naturally, they didn't actually do anything about the leak and the private student details were still visible to anyone who knew where to look...

Re: Things I am not embarrassed about.

tumbleweed — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:40:44 -0000

re a implying p: You mean -avP ? (that's what I use)

Re: Wordpress.com scalability at WordCamp SA 2008

tumbleweed — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:46:58 -0000

"395 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters." works out at ~1TB / day. So 1TB/s is an *insane* peak.