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Voluntary student unionism
The UWA Student Guild and the National Union of Students are pretty strongly opposed to voluntary student unionism, or VSU: the result of amendments to the Higher Education Support Act 2003 which took effect in 2006.
Essentially, VSU means that Australian universities cannot require their students to be a member of a student guild or pay fees for ( Read more... ) -
Life as we don't know it
I found this (very) short story and this article by Isaac Asimov rather interesting.
Anyway, it got me to thinking about the lack of imagination in movieland's monsters. Their only attributes are their bigness and destructiveness. They include big apes, big octopuses (or is the word "octopodes"?), big eagles, big spiders, big amoebae. In a way, ( Read more... ) -
Free couch-like thing
If anyone's interested in a free purple couch/sofa, there's currently one sitting in our garage that we're hoping to get rid of. I managed to get rid of the couch. -
Leopard shutdown problems
For anybody else who's been having problems shutting down their MacBook (or possibly other Macs) after installing Leopard, I managed to solve it (somehow ( Read more... ) -
Guild catering
Seriously, how can the Guild continue to make a profit off catering ( Read more... ) -
It's nice to not be a fresher
So, we're all back at uni again (well, perhaps not all of us, but many of us). The first week went pretty well, although I guess the fact that two of my units are small group class units (ie. no lectures, which means they don't start until week 2) was pretty helpful ( Read more... ) -
OS X software, plus a question
I've just discovered the excellent Mac OS X software thread over at Something Awful, and it's proved to have a large number of pretty-interesting looking things in it.
First thing I've discovered is SynergyKM - an OS X GUI for my beloved Synergy. Playing with the command-line version, plus manually writing configuration files, is a little tedious ( Read more... ) -
Mac OS X filesystems; Synergy!
I'm just starting to get used to the 'new' setup of my OS X system ( Read more... ) -
Docking stations
This blog post pretty much echoes what I've been lamenting about the MacBook for a while now: there's no good docking station for it.
Sure, there are a variety of Mac docking stations provided by "BookEndz", but look at them! They're ugly. The problem is that there's no docking port on the MacBook, or the MacBook Pro. Instead, the docking station ( Read more... ) -
Gmail Notifier sends passwords over the network in cleartext.
via macosxhints.com: Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X sends your passwords in the clear over the network by default.
The link provides instructions on how to access a hidden setting that enables authentication over HTTPS. No idea why this isn't enabled by default - or why this setting isn't more clearly visible.
edit: According to some comments on ( Read more... )