Update 1: I've recently written an updated post covering how to get your visa in Canada, with some fresh details around the DS-160 and appointment process. About two months ago I moved to Silicon Valley from my home town of Wollongong in Australia. While the process of moving
My reason for moving San Francisco almost three weeks ago was to pursue investment for AffinityLive, and with that money grow the R&D team in Wollongong as well as establish a sales and marketing team here in the US. Of course, implicit in this is the assumption that
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#protip - never rent a ZipCar unless you know exactly where it is located. As in you've eyeballed the spot and the car yourself BEFORE you book it. Am spending the day down in Palo Alto today, and had a gap between meetings. I'm meeting up
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I checked in on the headlines this morning and got a big shock, one I didn't really see coming. Google has acquired Motorola for $12.5B and gaining another 20K employees in the process. Some pretty interesting thoughts already emerging, even though as John Lilly says, the structure
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TL;DR version: the Chromebook is already 10 times more useful than my tablet, and the fact it is only running a very fast browser allows this thing to be fast and useful like a fully loaded laptop, but with the battery life, lighter weight and low cost profile of
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TL;DR version: the 4.1 version of VirtualBox (or possibly more correctly, the VirtualBoxAdditions that provide the vboxfs) makes it impossible for Apache to correctly do its Kernel hand off, known as EnableSendfile. If you're experiencing problems with files that are stored on a vboxfs share on
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I've been an entrepreneur for over a decade, and I've been working in tech that entire time. But just this last week, I made the move. I now live in Silicon Valley. Why do it, what does it mean for my life, my businesses and my
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Just a quick note to let you know that we're kicking off a regular Silicon Beach Drinks here in Wollongong. After kick-starting the tech entrepreneur scene three years ago, and playing a massive part in bringing together a really strong community, we thought we'd have our
Introduction Today is one of the days you'll remember for the rest of your life. It might be because you feel proud - it is the culmination of thousands of hours work and study. It might be because you feel relieved - no more cramming for exams and
Over the last couple of years, I've been getting increasingly concerned about the future of our city. Leaving aside the rot exposed through the ICAC investigation, I've been mostly worried the future of the city from an economic perspective. Are we going to be a place
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Aside from my work as an entrepreneur with Internetrix and Hiive Systems, I'm also pretty active in my community as a board member of Regional Development Australia (Illawarra). The Board of our RDA is made up of some pretty impressive people from lots of walks of life, leaders
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A quick one that hopefully my geeky friends, followers and random Google searchers will appreciate - a way to restart all services being managed by the popular Daemontool's supervise package on Linux. We use supervise extensively for running our various custom daemons that power AffinityLive, and because we&