The question of how Holmes survived the fall at the end: I’m sure everybody has already come up with answer by now. This is just my own thoughts on the matter. I have been up all night (it is now nearly 6:30AM) thinking about this. OTL

There are 3 possibilites, as I see it:

1. He died, he jumped off the roof and fell 4+ stories onto concrete.
2. He jumped, but somehow survived the fall.
3. He did not jump, someone else fell from the roof and was found on the ground below.

We know Holmes did survive, the only question is to how; That rules out no #1. It certainly looked like Holmes falling, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I will assume that #3 is false and that it was Holmes who jumped.

Some odd question about what occurred after Holmes jumped:

1. Why did Watson get knocked over by a bicycle rider? (who was possibly following lines on the ground – perhaps chalk – you can see them if you look closely)
2. How did such a large crowd gather so quickly and why did they prevent Watson from checking to see whether Holmes was alive or not (they prevented him from checking his pulse)
3. How and why did paramedics arrive so quickly?
4. Why was a garbage truck (?) parked in front of a bus stop? (you can see the stop itself and the text on the road clearly marking the zone) and why did it pull away right after the body hit the ground? (surely the driver would have seen him fall or at least hit the ground)
5. Why is the body on its side (in something like the recovery position, no less) when Holmes fell face-first from the roof?
6. One the subject of the body, why does the blood pool near its head appear to spray out towards the road?

There is, of course, at least one other question: What did Holmes ask of Molly?

I make no attempt to conclusively answer these questions, it is, after all, 6:30AM and I have been up all night, unable to sleep. Perhaps now I will be able to sleep.

• All R18+ and X18+ material that does not have a government-approved age-verification page (none of them have this, currently)
• MA15+ material that is used for commercial purposes
• All RC material (which is legal to own and view privately in most of Australia)

Jim Wallace’s response to this fact is that it is “utter nonsense”. Well Jim, I think you need to do a little more research. These four responses from Senator Stephen Conroy  prove that you are wrong and misleading the public, unlike Mark, who states the facts.

Not only that, but who gave you or the government the right to decide what is right for all children in Australia. Household values differ. In some houses, parents might not want their children to have access to internet chatrooms and social networking like facebook or myspace while other parents might be 100% happy to let their children access these types of sites. These sites are possibly harmful to children who ostensibly might run into online predators (a recent study shows that this risk is smaller than was thought by many) but the an ISP-level opt-out filter provides no flexibility to provide for differences in parental values. Surely you aren’t suggesting that your own conservative christian values are the only values that parents have, or worse that those should be the only values that parents should have.

As an adult, I am becoming more and more worried about the future of our internet. If, according the the above blacklist, MA15+ content used for commercial purposes is blocked, does that mean that subscription-based online games such as Age of Conan, Lord of the Rings online, etc. will be blocked? While on the topic of online games I would like to restate that anything (such as a filtercensor) that increases australia’s internet latency is completely unacceptable to me as a gamer. Finally, the mandatory filter is not there to protect children, it is there to prevent access to “prohibited” content. At this task it fails dismally: it can be bypassed in less than 10 minutes by anyone with even a slight understanding of the internet and it doesn’t block the major source of “prohibited” content: peer-to-peer. If my opinion (and the opinion of the majority of internet users) matters at all, scrap the mandatory blacklist. It fails at its task, it cannot succeed. So why have it at all?

Also, my laptop is finally (almost) working perfectly in linux. The graphics worked perfectly after installing the nvidia restricted drivers (via restricted-manager) but the wireless required a windows driver to be downloaded in order to get it working. But it now works perfectly, albeit at a max speed of 24MB/s.

Swinburne’s wireless seems is stupid (a customised eduroam WPA Enterprise network). Even windows users find it drops out from time to time. In linux (now my preferred OS) it’s even worse, with random dropouts all the time and problems with re-authentication once it has dropped out. If anyone IS reading this who can throw some light on the cause of this problem, please help ><

It was taking up space, I wasn’t using it much, if at all; and I needed that space to install Shivering Isles. So I deleted it.

Next, I need to get my wireless working. Manually installing ndiswrapper was a nightmare – it failed for reasons i don’t know – so I’m going to try the packages from the repos now.

Feisty seems to come with a version of compiz but the window decoration is broken – I must need cgwd – not that I really care at this stage as beryl works fine and the beryl-compiz merge doesn’t seem to be very far along.
[edit] CGWD is included, I just had to enable it, Heliodor also works with compiz but not beryl, but it’s the one from the beryl repositories, explain that! [/edit]

Finally, there was some problem with the audio that adding this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:
# Added according to tips from launchpad.net.
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack
seemed to fix. [edit] It didn’t actually fix the problem so I’m going to google around for a solution [/edit]

I then decided to do this to every computer in the room. So now there are 8 computers stuck on a BSOD in a room of 12.

In all the 8 months that my last blog was up I only got visits from people who I knew in the real world…

First of all, the graphics card (Geforce Go 6150 UMA) only works in 16-bit colour with no Direct Rendering with the open-source drivers, and obtaining drivers with no net connection (as I will explain, the wireless does not work) under Linux is quite difficult

Next, the integrated nVidia sound adapter is a bit useless, it kind of works most of the time, but the microphone,
headphone socket and wine do not work at all.

Now, the worst problem, the wireless adapter (Broadcom 4311) does not work natively under Linux. However, ndiswrapper does not work either, as there is some sort of IRQ conflict between the ndiswrapper-ed drivers and the nVidia proprietary binary drivers.

Finally, my GRUB spontaneously somehow ended up pointing to the wrong partitions on my hard disk and no manual,
editing of the config files would get it working again.

I sincerely hope that most, if not all these issues are resolved in Feisty. I’ll install it when I have time this week.

And the line breaks in this are also borked