Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys). Photographed at Craigie, W.A.
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Recently…
- Went on a Birds WA walk through Pinnaroo Vallery Memorial Park – highlight was the Splendid Fairy-wren (Malurus splendens).
- Bought a 17″ LCD monitor (analogue) – a ViewSonic VA702 with the silver casing. Very nice and means I can open documentation and sample code on one screen and Xcode on the other.
- Upgraded the RAM in Kylie’s iMac DV+ (Sage) from 320MB to 512MB.
- Upgraded the RAM in the G3 Server from 256MB to 448MB (should be 512MB but half of one of the chips is not being detected correctly).
6 out of 10 of the Most Important Macs Ever
LowEndMac has an article (link) listing Adam Robert Guha’s 10 most important Macs. A quick check reveals that I own 6 of the 10 (I don’t have a 6100/60 but I do have three 6100/66s so I’m going to count that one). I think my collection is getting a tad out of hand…
My Birding Database
Over the last few months I have been tinkering with a MySQL/PHP/Apache “application” to keep track of bird sightings and to maintain a primitive life list. Over the weekend I got some of the basic functions going and added nearly 60 sightings. I have records going back 5 years or more still to go through but currently my life list stands at 48. These are only for birds seen in W.A. Not really that impressive but at least I can now keep track of what I see. All I need to do now is find a sensible way to back the databases up (and enter about 100 other sightings!).
Cheynes Beach and Waychinicup National Park bird list
Here is the list of birds seen during a recent holiday to Cheynes Beach Caravan Park (alas no Noisy Scrub-bird):
- Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora)
- Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides)
- Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus)
- Crested Tern (Sterna bergii)
- Brush Bronzewing (Phaps elegans)
- Western Rosella (Platycercus icterotis)
- Red-winged Fairy-wren (Malurus elegans)
- White Cheeked Honeyeater (Phylidonyris nigra)
- Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor)
- Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)
- New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)
- Singing Honeyeater (Lichenostomus virescens)
- White-breasted Robin (Eopsaltria georgiana)
- White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis)
Birds seen at Albany during the same trip:
- Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus)
- Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris)
Birds seen on the roadside whilst travelling:
- Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang, between Wagin and Katanning)
PowerBook 100 Update
I replaced the broken 40MB SCSI HDD in the PB100 with an 80MB drive from the busted up 165c. I installed Mac OS 7.1 and it runs quite nicely (I have 4MB of RAM). The screen has a few rows of missing pixels from the left hand side but nothing that inhibits use. One of the feet is broken but I have a second battery and the external floppy drive.
PowerBook 100
I also picked up a PowerBook 100 from eBay. The PB100 is very small and light (the floppy drive is external). All I have to do is replace the SCSI hard drive as it is hosed (I have a few spares).
Recent eBay purchase and question
An original Mac OS 7.6 CD. I intend to use it on the Quadra 950 mentioned earlier. If anyone knows the largest hard drive partition 7.6 will handle please email me.
More Kingfishers…
Saw a handful of Sacred Kingfishers (Todiramphus sanctus) at the same location in Dampier as the previous post. They also seemed to shelter at the camp in bad weather.
Red-backed Kingfishers
Saw three Red-backed Kingfishers (Todirhamphus pyrrhopygia) at Dampier 20/01/2006. They appeared to be sheltering in the mining camp I am staying in while the cyclone passed.