December 26, 2008

December Holidays – StarCity

Filed under: Personal — Tags: , — delx @ 2:19 am

From very early in 2008 Julieanne and I had planned to spend a few nights at the StarCity hotel in Sydney’s Darling Harbour. This was to be our joint celebration of finishing four years of university.

The previous two trips were planned afterward but we ended up doing StarCity last. We had a really nice relaxing few days. Breakfasted at the Garden Buffet, got pampered with a massage at the Star Spa and just generally relaxed and enjoyed ourselves.

December 20, 2008

December Holidays – Gold Coast

Filed under: Personal — Tags: , — delx @ 1:43 am

A group of friends from university decided a road trip to the Gold Coast would be a suitable way to celebrate finishing uni and the end of the year. Nine of us booked two rooms at the Silverton Apartments, about 10 minutes walk out of Surfer’s Paradise. We had great views from the apartment of both the beach to the east and the mountains to the west.

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December 13, 2008

December Holidays – Melbourne

Filed under: Personal — Tags: , — delx @ 2:09 am

I spent last December tripping Australia in celebration of finishing university. I had a great time visiting four different capital cities.
The first trip was at the beginning of December, I went to Melbourne with Julieanne, Tom & Emma.

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December 2, 2008

Linux Traffic Control – QoS

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , — delx @ 4:30 am

I recently started using VoIP, using NodePhone with Internode. This post describes how I implemented QoS on my router to make VoIP work well. It also allows me to prioritise some traffic on my network, such as SSH, while deprioritising others, such as BitTorrent and SFTP.

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