New Lost Offline Site Design
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New Site Design Template18Sep09
Nepean Deanery Sports Day05Sep09
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Nepean Deanery Sports Day from [adrian falleiro] on Vimeo.
The Promo I made for the Nepean Deanery Sports Day 
“I’m Not Unco”04Sep09
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I was shooting a promo last weekend, during which we got a little bored. We decided to put one of our actors, Amanda to the test and see how well she could perform some simple footy skills.
Thanks to Amanda for being a good sport 
“I’m Not Un-co” from [adrian falleiro] on Vimeo.
We test Amanda’s footy skills and see how well she would fare in the NRL.
Star Quest Production Network04Sep09
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This evening I was at a conference afilliated with the Australasian Catholic Press Association and hosted by Theology on Tap. Father Roderick, founder of Star Quest Production Network, a podcasting network, came to talk about using new media to reach out to people and spreading the Gospel message.
As his site says:
SQPN (Star Quest Production Network) is a multimedia organization specializing in the production of audio and video programs faithful to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Its mission is to respond to the Church’s call to use the media for religious information, for evangelization and catechesis and for formation and education¹.
Check it out
Backyard Exploration28Aug09
IPv613Nov07
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IPv6 is a new network layer. Its the successor to IPv4 and solves the issue of running out of IP address. The addresses are 128 bits long and are hexadecimal. Up to 340 undecillion IP’s are possible.
But is it what we want. Sure there be enough IP address for every but were only using 40% of IPv4 address, we already have enough.
IPv6 opens up a new door for us as we can do away with NAT, the issues of p2p and active ftp are all ridden becuase everyone gets their own IPv6 address. However, it also increases the risk as the active NAT firewall doesnt apply anymore and malicious intuders can gain access to your computer.
IPv6 was official in 2001 but has only been implemented in recent, even though the uptake is slow analyst expect IPv4 support to end at 2025.
CNet ‘There’s a catch to free Wifi’04Oct07
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Articles recently published by News/Journalistic Tech site C|Net that demeans Google’s plan to offer Free WiFi in San Francisco bay area.
Claiming that the service
Wouldn’t be the same as the high-speed DSL or cable connections used in homes and businesses today.
Well of course its not, hence the name “WiFi”. If it were the same as high-speed DSL and Cable connections it would’ve been called “Google DSL” or “Google Cable”. You cant compare something Free with somethig thats paid and expect them to be the same.
Google’s service would apparently top out at 300 kbps. That’s about five times the speed of telephone dial-up connections, but hardly the kind of capacity needed for many high-bandwidth services and applications.
Firstly, since when is 300kbps not the kind of capacity needed for high-bandwidth services. Mind you this 300kbpsp Per Client. Most bandwith heavy services stream at a max of 300k. Secondly, it isnt mean to be a broadband replacement even the paid WiFi soloutions arent meant to replace a conventional connection.
Another concern would be the coverage under today’s Wi-Fi technologies, which other cities have found trickier to deploy than originally thought. Blogma once tried to use San Francisco’s Wi-Fi hot spot in an area called Union Square: The connection was spotty at best and wouldn’t work at all across the street.
Go to the Google WiFi site what does it say? Beta. What does Beta mean? A testing period. Of course in some places it may be difficult to attain a connection, if it werent maybe it would be out of beta and also thats just the physical limitations of 802.11b not Google.
I along with most of the community feel that CNet has intentionally made Google’s WiFi srvice look bad even before its out. Perhaps this may be due to Google’s vow not to talk to CNet. However CNet’s claims might end up right but we will only know when the service is rolled out.
TNBT: Videoblogging31Jul07
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After spending alot of time on MySpace and YouTube I have noticed a new rage spreading amongst today’s culture.
Video Blogs.
The Pioneers
Without a doubt video blogging isnt new at all, the idea of a video blogging began much before blogging began albeit under a different alias (Video Diary). Due to the lack of web space and bandwidth and not to mention the exorbitant costs involved video diary-ing was not feasable for its time
Phase 1
Phase 1 of Videoblogging began after the broadband revoloution. Suddenly content deliverers had the web space and bandwidth and the end user had a fast pipe
Phase 2
Phase 2 of Videoblogging began began shortly after the uprise of Podcasting. Web sites such as Google Video and Youtube offered to freely host your video content and stream it out to whoever wanted it. Free!
Videoblogging: TNBT
Since Phase 2 Videoblogging has played a more prominent role in modern culture and as blogs become old, Videoblogging has become a new fad.
DRM is the Devil18May07
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DRM is a revolutionary technology that attempts to change the way we think and use digital media.
In a nutshell, DRM constrains and restricts the user and limits the way the user (us) can use the media they have legally obtained.
Has DRM succeeded at what it was set out to accomplish, that is, to control access to or usage of digital data1 or has is failed miserably?
The Industry says DRM is a necessary measure to make digital downloads possible.
But can the use of DRM can be really be justified and does crippling the content and its usability add value to the content or does take it away?
But can the use of DRM can be really be justified?
From a content provider’s point of view, it is imperative to protect your content, so as to maintain a stable source of revenue, (everybody’s gotta make money right?), nothing wrong with that. This was all fine and dandy when consumers had to go out a buy a physical copy with their hard-earned-cash regardless whether they were satisfied with the product or not. However in this new age of technology and connectivity, the digital dawn, this old business model no longer works.
Consumer
Hmm I’m not gonna buy the new Jay-Z album, I’ll just get it off Napster
Record Label
OH NOES!! THEY’RE STEALING OUR CONTENT SUE!SUE!SUE!
This is the core of the problem, as the industry believes it can still maintain the same business model. They need some way to maintain their business (everybody’s gotta make money right?) and DRM is that way.
Does crippling the content and its usability add value to the content or does take it away?
Again, from a content provider’s point of view, it is imperative to protect your content.
So I pose the question whether DRM adds value or takes it away? Simply put, it takes it away. What value is there in a crippled product that only works on certain authorized devices and programs and operating systems. I am, of course, not just referring just to music, but to videos and games and a whole multitude of products. DRM serves the interests of its owners, not the consumer
Tunnelling X over SSH using PuTTY and Xming On Windows15May07
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Open Up PuTTY on you Local Windows Machine
Enter the Server IP in the WindowsThen on the left hand pane click on X11
A quick tutorial to Run programs remotely thorugh an SSH session.
Download and Install Xming and PuTTY
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xming/Xming-20060310-setup.exe?download
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
Execute the following on the remote machine (as root)
> cd /etc/ssh
> vi sshd_config
Add the following line (if not already present)
X11Forwarding yes
Open Up PuTTY on you Local Windows Machine
Enter the Server IP in the WindowsThen on the left hand pane click on X11
Check the “Enable X11 Forwarding” box and enter “localhost:0″ (without quotes) in the X display location box
Finally, start up Xming from the Start Menu.
Press Enter, login and start up a program, in a few seconds it should appear on your desktop
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