Paul McCormack’s Web Site

Just to let you know that I have quit Facebook. If you want to get in touch, please email me if you know my address or use the contact form on this web site.

I will still be posting updates and photos on this web site and also on Humblebee, but I won’t be able to see your updates or anything else that you may post on Facebook.

I am looking forward to the freedom of not feeling compelled to check Facebook every day and wondering who they’ve sold my personal information to today.

I have just created a Firefox Persona using my favourite photo of Miranda. It was remarkably easy! If you want to have a look or try it out, just click here.

Quick photo of the V8 practice as viewed from my office window at Sydney Olympic Park. You may notice that I have miniaturised the action!

I have just uploaded a modified script to the Munin Exchange web site to allow Munin to monitor the number of online and offline SIP Peers.

I hope you find it useful.

I do.

I am a bit particular about accurately knowing the current time so I have set up two Stratum 2 NTP time servers at home. One syncs from the atomic clocks run by the National Measurement Institute in Australia (they are the folks that define the official time in Australia) and the other connects to GPS clocks run by various Australian universities.

As a result, all computers in my home are accurate to within one thousandth of a second of the official time.

Having a pair of Stratum 2 servers and not sharing them seems a bit selfish, so I have recently registered as a member of the NTP Pool which provides public access to accurate NTP servers. If you sync from *.au.pool.ntp.org then there is a chance that you are getting time from my servers. You can also add ntp.paulmccormack.com as a server if you want.

Performance information on my server can be found here.

There is no excuse to be late any more!