Religions explained

It is so easy put like this...

Snow Leopard - Home Permium with Anti Virus?

Nice work...

TCP over ICMP, another great way to get around the IT department.

This is a nice way to route from your box inside the secure environment to the box you have at home. Via ICMP, sweet.

ip-over-icmp, firewall piercing, ping, icmp, tunnel, ifconfig, route, tun/tap, tun0.

There is one good reason to jail break the iphone

here it is, just imagine that...

Marcos Ambrose - best Sprint Cup driver not to have won a race

It’s time to acknowledge the season that Marcos Ambrose is having in his first year running the full Sprint Cup schedule. On the year, Ambrose has collected seven top-10s, and four top-fives, including an amazing third-place finish last night. In both races at Bristol this year, the Aussie has left Bristol with top-10 finishes, which for anyone let alone a rookie, is an incredible feat. Ambrose has now officially assumed the mantel of the best Sprint Cup driver not to have won a race. And I promise you that it won’t be long before Ambrose sheds that label, and becomes the next first-time Sprint Cup winner.

Link to this site.

Some people are great at fixing things

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/candy-land/there-i-fixed-it-stupid-things/

STOP! Hammertime! 2.1c

This is a Firefox addon for when you hit STOP

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/974

Maybe Google MAPS does not give you the most direct route?

I think we can all see the world has gone quiet MAD

This is my favorite every little red wagon...

Full details: http://jalopnik.com/5333923/the-biggest-little-red-wagon-youll-ever-see/gallery/

Microsoft Licencing for Vista/Windows 7

Even for a corporate it does not matter how much you pay Microsoft you still need to tell them (via an activation server) that you have a valid Windows license at worst every 30 days and at best every 180 days.

What happens when Vista is currentRelease-2 (end of life or four years from release date), does Microsoft just kill your licences? If they could have done that for Windows XP, this week was when they would have, XP is now EOL as Windows 7 is the second release after XP... But I guess you are all off Windows XP by now so no biggy for you right. You can not even buy an XP licnce today accoring to Microsoft...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx

Excel 2007 Invisible check boxs

I have this add-in installed in Excel 2007, the installation works, but the removal was not 100% and left the code, no biggy, I will use help to remove the add-ins. Step 1-2 find the right place step 5.1, click the invisible check box... is it me or can you see it?

Exchange - key facts about CCR

Am I cynical or is the feature of Exchange 2007 CCR built on the logs being kept on a hidden share with file permissions so that a second node can batch update its database?


Continuous replication places almost no CPU and input/output (I/O) load on the active node during normal operation   CCR uses the passive node to copy and replay the logs. Logs are accessed by the passive node via a secured file share.

ttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124521.aspx

rcconf to remove KVM from init runlevel 2

Arh, after a bit of digging as there is no sysconfig on ubuntu, rcconfig (apt-get install rcconf) and follow you nose.

Easy....

Sun VirtualBox and Ubuntu update

It is a pain that VirtualBox 3.0.x and Intel's KVM have a problem, each reboot I need to remove KVM and KVM_Intel...

Office 2007 as a blog tool

With pictures via Flickr… Lets see if it works – Attempt 3

 

Google Chrome based on Mozilla

 

Chrome could be a new friend of mine, as it is after all using the Mozilla code.

 

 

Office 2007 working with GAG, Google’s Blogger

That is right my friends, I did not think it would work, but here I am, big bold and written in Calibri font from Office 2007.

 

Sydney Petrol Price and the GST/Excise

I don't know who else has thought about this, but tonight waiting for a server reboot I did. So in brief here are some facts.

Barrel of oil = 158 Litres
Barrel of oil cost AUD = $130
Output of this barrel:
Petrol 68 litres
Diesel 33 litres
Other 36 litres

Cost of purchase:
Sydney petrol $1.60 $108.70
Sydney diesel $1.80 $59.72
Sydney cost of other? 0.5 $18.00
TOTAL $186.43

Cost of Escise (Tax) and GST:

TAX National Fuel Excise 38.143% $71.11
TAX state GST 10% $18.64
Real cost $96.68 (only 52% of cost)

By my crude calculation that makes the true cost of petrol today
Sydney petrol minus Excise & GST $0.83
Sydney petrol with GST no Excise $0.91

And if I extrapolate that out for our family:

Ute 100L 48 Weekly fills
Focus 50L 48 Weekly fills

Then the fuel without the excise will save us:
Saving annual or Weekly savings
$3,312 $64
$1,656 $32

$100 a week our family is paying in Excise... Is that really needed? $5000 per year I am paying the government for the energy I need to get to work because there is no public transport, the nearest bus that takes me to another bus is 1.5km, the nearest direct bus is 17km the nearest train is 13km.

Don't forget this is on top of income tax ...

Let me think about that a different way, I have a $400,000 home loan (30 year). If I get an extra $100 per week what can that do to my home loan? Well according to echoice.com.au I will payoff the home loan 7 years earlier, and will save $156,000.00 in interest.

But I guess we are stuck so if we leave it as is for 30 years I can pay the government $114,000 in excise AND the the bank the extra in mortgage costs $156,000. Meaning due to excise I have to fork out an extra $270,000 or $226 per week. Geezzzz thank you Australian Federal Government.

And they are trying to stop inflation...? I don't think they are thinking hard enough.


sources for details:
http://www.echoice.com.au/mortgage/home_loans?pn=/homeloancalculators/extrarepayments.html
http://www.openroad.com.au/driverknowhow_fuellingthenation.asp
http://www.livecharts.co.uk/MarketCharts/crude.php
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/04/oil-independence-possible-according-to-doe-scientist/

Dave

Hyper-V not working on a non-VT cpu

If you have not downloaded and installed the intel CPU ID utility, you may see the following, and with good reason. Go and get a new CPU, you dont have Intel VT support.