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Since Christmas 2000, I've held an annual barbecue for the local open source hackers. In 2010 things were a little different: I had offered my PDP-11 to Alastair Boyanich, and we took the pickup date as a reason to start an expedition from New South Wales to Dereel. As a result, we spread it over three days. Amusingly, Alastair couldn't make it, so I still have the PDP-11. The following is (initially) an extract from my diary, but may grow.


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The weekend of the Hackers Barbecue started early with the arrival of Sue Blake in Ballarat at about 9:30. Had the sudden realization that we would have 10 people for breakfast, so in to pick her up and get some “ordinary” breakfast food. What do people eat for breakfast? It's one of those national secrets, and it's been so long since I've had Australian-style breakfast that I didn't know what to buy. Sue was no help: she's a vegetarian and currently not very well, so she can't even eat the things she likes. Ended up buying some plain bread for fussy kids and a few more eggs for Peter Jeremy's cakes, then off to look for ghee, which has become very expensive. Some discussion about whether there's a difference in taste between traditional ghee and the clarified butter that you can buy in the supermarkets, and which they now label ghee.

Back home, started cooking some food for tonight. Not only is Sue a vegetarian, but the other two guests for the night, Jashank and Peter Jeremy, are Friday vegetarians, so we decided on Indian food, despite reservations: Peter's wife Usha is Indian, and they eat a lot of Indian food, probably better than what I could serve. Ended up making Alu Masala, Kali dal and spiced green beans, and also started making some Masala Vada and Alu Tikka for tomorrow.

That was enough work in itself, more than I remember (this always happens to me). In the middle, Peter and Jashank showed up, having been through the Great Ocean Road in record time, so decided to postpone tomorrow's stuff to tomorrow morning. Fortunately the weather has picked up—the highest temperature we have had all week was 17.6°, but today we had 26.3°, and it was quite pleasant on the verandah:


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The food seems to have done the trick too: on our way back from Ballarat Sue had said something to the effect that she may not eat anything all weekend, but in fact she really got stuck into the Kali Dal. The others also seemed to like it, though I wasn't completely satisfied myself, but I suspect that we could have done with more rice.


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And so to the day of the barbecue, the biggest we have ever held:

Things started off with fun. Jashank had pointed out to me that the display on the internal unit of my WH-1081—something I never look at—was indicating “battery low” on the external unit. Out before breakfast to change the batteries, which are conveniently jammed in so that you need a screwdriver to get them out. Things worked fine, but the “low battery” indication continued. Then it occurred to me: I had put in some brand new rechargeables, which are nominally uncharged. Back out again, put in some others—and I got no response from the unit. 20 minutes of debugging: was it the battery? The outside unit? The cabling? Things were helped by the fact that I had a second inside unit that I could take outside with me. Put in a second outside unit with the same result, and finally discovered that you (normally) have to reset the inside unit when you change the batteries in the outside unit. I wonder if the thing generates a random code, and the inside unit latches on to the first one it finds. That would be a more honourable explanation of the lack of a channel setting.

That proved the validity of my approach to data storage, though: I had a whole lot of outside temperatures of -0.1°, and I was able to set them to NULL with a couple of SQL statements. Now if I could find a way to convince Wunderground to change the stored data.


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As expected, of course, the numbers gradually dwindled: Sam Lawrance chickened out at the last minute, and Edwin Groothuis came alone, and did not intend to spend the night—our 10 people for breakfast tomorrow have dwindled to 6, for whom we bought 2 loaves of bread. We had planned three tables for the main barbecue, including a quarter of the old conference table from the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau,

I had left some of the cooking until this morning, and Peter also had a couple of cakes to bake. Ended up doing my stuff on the “dining room” table:


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Callum Gibson and family (the “Mongolian hordes”, his wife Jenny and kids Emma, Owen, Alice and Rebecca) showed up in time to help with the final preparations:


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Callum had also obligingly stepped forward as Grillmeister, though we weren't able to satisfy his request for tasteless aprons with fake breasts on them. I thought bushfire protection overalls more appropriate, anyway:


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Our worries about feeding and seating everybody were unfounded: Callum's children preferred to stay indoors (little Owen was afraid of the bees outside, but I saw him carrying a very patient Piccola around inside), so we ended up with “only” 15 people outside, and even had a couple of seats empty. Others who showed up were Juha Kupiainen, Lawrance Stewart (a bloke from Melbourne who is currently working on TCP congestion control) with Warren, a friend of his whose surname I forget, and Peter Ross, a German whom I knew from some mailing lists, but I didn't know that he has been in Australia for 8 years, and is currently in Melbourne. He came by bike from Ballarat.

People have been talking about my flaky satellite connection for years, and IPStar didn't disappoint them:

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1271467723 1271468277    554 # 17 April 2010 11:28:43 17 April 2010 11:37:57
1271468470 1271468661    191 # 17 April 2010 11:41:10 17 April 2010 11:44:21

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1271426400  2   745 99.14% # 17 April 2010

Any improvement I had in the middle of last month seems to be over: the average availability since I've had the service is 99.12%. And my ISP has sold its satellite operations, so I fear I'm in for more bad service.

The beer went down well, of course, and Callum finished a keg. We went and looked at the old hardware—originally the reason for the barbecue was so that Alastair Boyanich could pick up the PDP-11 (under the antenna in the first photo), but Callum thought that he should take the Control Data Cyber 910 as well (second photo):


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But Alastair didn't show—we'll have to repeat the effort.

Also riding for Callum's kids:


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Sue and Jenny are both into music, and Sue spent a bit of time explaining recorder technique to Jenny:


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And hacking? Juha took Edwin's laptop apart, apparently to excise a defective RAM module, and helped by a generous glass of beer:


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Edwin had promised to bring food, but when we unpacked the expected rainbow trout, it proved to be a Steelhead appliance:


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Interesting box—it's a network accelerator, as near as I can put it. Edwin demonstrated the operation, and sure enough, it worked as expected, accelerating the download of an MP3 from 30 kB/s to about 3 MB/s—by caching. That in itself is nothing world-shattering—Squid can do that. The difference here is that the appliance (can't they find a better term?) recognizes common data wherever it turns up, and then saves it to disk. That sounds very much like what Alan Kennington and I were talking about years ago:


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At the time I had told him that it was crazy to put a disk in a network stream.

The real issue is how difficult it is to demonstrate something like that. You need to show speedups in situations where current software can't cope. And from my point of view, I'm interested to hear the implementation details, whether it works like rsync or like blocklets.

People were interested in the beer as well, of course. I'm not brewing anything at the moment, but I showed the ingredients I had. And Jenny looked up to the ceiling and found it infested with Indianmeal moth pupae. Off with a can of fly spray to hopefully kill them. They're pretty well wrapped, and I should remove and crush them:


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All in all, a successful barbecue, leaving everybody thoroughly contented:

 
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Most people left round dusk, and in the end we were the same group as last night with the addition of Juha, who had been offered a bed at Chris' place, but he decided he'd rather sleep on the floor here than find his way over there late at night. But then he remembered his cat allergy and ended up sleeping in his car.

Before that, however, we spent some time playing around with cameras on the verandah:


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Tried to connect up my Mecablitz 40 CT to Juha's camera. Problem: he doesn't know the maximum flash trigger voltage for his camera, so I decided to do it with my radio-controlled remote trigger. That doesn't work properly either: it has enough effect on the flash that the charge light goes out, but apparently not enough to fire it. I wonder what's wrong there.


Sunday, 18 April 2010 Today's diary Today's images top previous

With all the fun yesterday, didn't take most of my garden photos, so did that today, with a couple of people in tow with the intention of taking photos of me doing it:


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Getting my panoramas sorted out with so many people around was a bit of an issue, but it occurred to me that we should try a specific panorama with lots of people in it:


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Another popular subject was Piccola:


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Strangely, nobody took any photos of Lilac.

While walking around the paddocks, found a new weed:


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It looks like Catmint, but it doesn't have the scent, and the flowers have long since faded. Peter tells me that the orange spots are Harlequin beetles, though that term seems to be applied to many and varied beetles. None of the ones I've found look like these.

Spent the rest of the afternoon processing photos—with the help of Jashank, Juha and Peter I have the largest collection I've ever had for a weekend, a total of 335 images (not including the components of HDR images), and nearly 6 GB of data:

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Processing the “Mongolian Hordes” panorama was fun, and not completely successful:


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The cannas growing out of Juha's head reminded Yvonne of a Botticelli painting, though she's not sure which. But I wonder how to manually frob the individual images to get rid of that kind of artefact.

Uploading photos wasn't made any easier by extreme network congestion and more satellite outages:

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1271547788 1271547876     88 # 18 April 2010 09:43:08 18 April 2010 09:44:36
1271550444 1271550481     37 # 18 April 2010 10:27:24 18 April 2010 10:28:01
1271590286 1271590390    104 # 18 April 2010 21:31:26 18 April 2010 21:33:10

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1271512800  3   229 99.73% # 18 April 2010

I didn't get everything uploaded until nearly 18:00.

We still have lots of leftovers, of course. Called the Yeardleys over for dinner and finished the marinated meat and some leftover cold sausages. We still have a number of beef and vegetable skewers and far too many sausages (about 25). But things could be worse.


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