Foddrick

I've ressurected the Jargon Master page. Enjoy. I dare you not to.

Yesterday we were heading out to a wedding and this is one of the rare times that I wear a suit. Campbell was impressed so he said "Hey Dad, you look smiffy". Harrison corrected him in the way that only older siblings can and said "No Campbell, its sniffy".

I have never been a fan of printers and less so multifunction printers. Recently, I've been wrestling with my fax because it stopped printing rx reports so I didn't know whether or not it was successful. Additionally, it was low on toner, and it was constantly flashing "Received To Memory". These problems are all related. It seems by default when the fax is low on toner, it won't print any reports or automatically print faxes. The solution is fairly simple.

If your machine is anything like mine, press menu, find "Fax Settings" -> OK -> Find "RX Settings" -> OK -> Find "Toner Supply Low" -> OK then choose "Keep Printing" and press "OK" again. If your problem is similar to mine, your printer should spring to life and output the missing reports and faxes. You will of course use up your toner more quickly.

Campbell and Harrison were wrestling on their new trampoline, when Harrison exclaimed "OK. No more wrestling!". Campbell who had enjoyed the upper hand retorted with "Just because I'm better than you!"

It is bad enough that I am at a point where I need to use MYOB. I tried to speed up the process by importing some data from another database, but no matter how I formatted it, with CRLF or just LF, every time I tried to open the file, MYOB gave me a helpful I/O Error on put. I finally figured out that MYOB wants to be able to open the file in write mode, and I had created a readonly file!

Overheard during a car trip
Harrison:"Bon Voyage Me Hearties"
Chris and I cacked ourselves.

One morning, Christine was busy trying to prepare Campbell for school when I decided it was time for "Wrestling Time". At the mere mention of this, Campbell swung into full wrestling mode, and before I knew it, despite my earnest attempts to prevent it, Campbell had genuinely pushed me off the bed. I landed with an undignified thud on the floor. I got up, defeated, licking my wounds, and Campbell victoriously cried out "Ding! Ding!". He was ready for round two!

A quick script to undo the change that suncorp made to their left menu with all the opening and closing sections. This makes all the menu items visible all the time as it used to be.

I've recently set up VOIP (via engin) and did not want my other net activities to interfere. I had my download client throttled to 5kps and I was running wondershaper but it didn't seem to make a difference. It finally dawned on me that it was my ACK packets that were flooding my upload link. Once I added some iptables entries to mark the packets from my download software, and gave them the lowest priority, all was good.

The last day of our holiday had arrived. We got up packed and headed for the airport. After some slight confusion and misunderstanding due to the malfunctioning of our E-toll transponder, we were in the air and off to Brisbane.

Upon arrival, we had to wait for a while to get the parking company to come and pick us up. We squeezed into the Territory and arrived home, very glad to be there.

All in all, it was a great holiday and we will visit Tasmania again sometime.