Well, that pretty much explains me the last few days. Haven’t really done much planning, just been taking it one day at a time. Ironically, it’s exactly what I recall seeing as the theme for linux.conf.au this year. The very same year that the Brisbane and Bremer rivers decided to get out of bed and visit the neighbourhood. Pity neither river thought to wipe their feet before flowing through peoples’ houses, leaving a trail of smelly mud behind.
Saturday and Sunday were spent over at Kenmore helping out my grandparents with the clean-up effort there. As I was home alone, I relied on my one and only form of transport, the bicycle, riding (and walking) Gap Creek Road between The Gap and Brookfield. Surprisingly, I can do that run in a bit over 1:20 or so, not bad for pedal power alone, and with a trailer loaded with gas bottle and camp stove to boot.
And of course today, seems I was a glutton for punishment, fronting up to Graceville State School and signing up to volunteer there along with my father. So very little time spent in front of the computer this weekend. Apart from the nasal assault the mud inflicted as we drove around Graceville area and the tiredness from all the running around, things aren’t too bad. Our house here in The Gap suffered no ill effects from the floods.
Gentoo/MIPS builds have plodded along, I had to re-start the Qube2 building MIPS4 little-endian builds as it crashed for some unknown reason. The O2 is busy building MIPS1 Stage 3 now as I type this. The little-endian builds for MIPS1 and MIPS3 are already online in my devspace. I’ll see about getting these moved to mirrors when the others are up too. Cobalt users; MIPS4 builds will be some time yet, if you’re desperate, the MIPS3 ones will work.
I’ve only uploaded the stage 3’s for now, since the stage 1’s gave me a slight hiccup with regards to python-wrapper, if you really want a stage 1 or 2 image, just throw the stage 3 at catalyst.
I did plan to try and at least get something going on the netbook as a bit of show-and-tell for linux.conf.au, which is rapidly approaching. I probably won’t get time, but at least it’s working, so I’ll leave it for now. I will definitely be there next week. Those in the Gentoo community, we should definitely meet up at some point. If you see someone riding in, looking like a postie with a bike downgrade, it’s probably me, particularly if the bike in question has an antenna or two mounted on it.
VK4MSL/BM on 2m: side view, will probably be seen at LCA2011
I’ve been ambushed by people lurking around it before. I probably won’t have the coolie hat with me (too awkward to carry on a bicycle, and of course I can’t wear it with the helmet) so in terms of visual queues, that’ll have to do. I’ll likely also be on the 2m band a lot whilst in-transit between The Gap and QUT where LCA2011 is to be held, so expect to hear me on 147.075MHz (VK4RAX) and 146.875MHz (VK4RBS) repeaters. Sadly, no APRS yet, so you won’t be able to track me that way for now.
This week, a lot of nets and club activities also resume, including the Brisbane Amateur Radio Club, who meet at the Queensland Maritime Museum just across the water from LCA2011 at 7:30PM that Friday (the 21st) for a business meeting. Despite it being largely for business, we welcome anyone wishing to come across and say ‘ello. Amateur Radio and the Open-Source community do have a lot in common.
In short, I’m cracking the whip on the O2, and hoping to have at the very least, MIPS1 big-endian builds up by the start of LCA2011, and I hope to meet a lot of you at this year’s LCA, which will be the first time I’ve attended one of these events.
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