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	What is this web site?
	A personal site of curios and nonsense

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This is Greg Keogh's personal web site in the orthogonal.com.au domain. This is a not a commercial web site, it was created by software developer Greg Keogh to entertain himself, friends, colleagues and anyone who might stumble upon the site and find something interesting. At unpredictable intervals the site will be updated with news about pets, social events, holidays, gossip, hobbies, music and trivia. Greg's more serious business related web site is under construction at www.orthogonal.net.au.

Construction of this site began in September 2001, initially as a practical exercise for Greg in learning to use advanced features of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and related web authoring tools. Greg is currently using this web site as a testing-ground for every possible feature of Dreamweaver, so you might find some deliberate strange behavior or inconsistent appearance across the site.

Please email any technical problem reports about this site to Greg <>, especially if you suspect your web browser isn't displaying the site correctly. Please supply any diagnostic information such as the operating system and browser versions.

Important Note -- This web site is "under construction" in perpetuity, as is normal with all personal web sites. When the site is nearing completion you will be notified by headlines in all major newspapers around the world.

Related Information Pages: Disclaimer Site Information Charsets Style Test Style Test (Plain) Links

	Navigation and Structure
	Conventions with icons, colours and text within this web site

Major subject categories are presented on the buttons in the top of every page. You can jump to the site home page or the home page of each subject by clicking on a button. A depressed button indicates that you are on a page somewhere on or under that subject category.

Use the Site Map to see the complete contents of the web site as a hierarchical table of contents. The What's New page is always updated with a chronological summary of site changes and news.

To reduce visual clutter, hyperlinks do not use underlining and rely only on colour-coding to identify them. Internal links are indicated Like This (dark blue). External links are indicated Like This (dark red) and usually open in a new browser window so you don't lose your launching place. Visited and unvisited links use the same colour.

Absolutely no attempts have been made to optimise the loading speed of pages in this site, so visitors with slow Internet connections may suffer a bit because the site contains many large files. For you convenience, large images are usually opened in secondary windows and this behaviour is normally indicated by a link with one of these icons:

If you're using some kind of "ad blocking" software then you will need to allow this domain to pop-up secondary windows which are used extensively for displaying large images. You can be sure that there is no commercial advertising in this site. This information page does mention the software products used within the Nancy Street Network, but it's merely for the technical interest of visitors.

No attempts have been made so far to make this web site comply with the US government accessibility guidlines published under Section 508 regarding Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22). However, it would be an interesting training exercise to make this site compliant when hobby time permits.

	Where is this web site?
	Deep in suburban Melbourne Australia

The web site is hosted on a PC in the second bedroom of a house in Nancy Street in suburban Cheltenham in Melbourne Australia. The bedroom has been converted into a "computer room" with a book and CD library and plentiful power and cabling outlets.

The location of the Nancy Street Network is described in detail in the Geography page. The Gallery sections on The Computer Room and Nancy Street contain dozens of inside and outside images of Nancy Street spanning the years 1989 to the present.

Click to pop-up a picture of Nancy
Street taken in early 2002.

	What runs the web site?
	A server in a bedroom in Melbourne Australia

The web site is authored using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and published by Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) 6.0 under the Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition operating system running on a Pentium Dual-Core 2160 processor machine with 1GB of RAM. The following picture shows the Computer Room on 08-Jul-2007.

The following items can be seen in the picture (from left to right): Epson AL-C900 colour laser printer, domain controller computer, Marantz Hi-Fi stack & Akai turntable, ADSL modem and 8-port hub hanging from the wall, web/file server computer (under the desk), Teac mixer, Greg's work machine. The long history of the various pieces of audio equipment is documented in detail in The Old Hi-Fi Equipment page. More pictures can be found on The Computer Room page in the Gallery.

The "Computer Room" in late April 2004 At the far left can be seen two PCs in a stack. One is the spare test PC that runs Unix/Windows as needed, the other belongs to a local real estate agent who suffered a hard disk failure. Lower mid-left is an Elecsafe electrical tester sitting on Bruno's compact Hi-Fi. The Elecsafe is being used for software development and the Hi-Fi is for digitising old cassette tapes. The huge Slab on the central Marantz Hi-Fi stack is an old Kreisler all-in-one on loan from Trudy (See 78s).

The Nancy Street network is connected to the Internet via a PeopleTelecom ADSL conection which is shared through a Billion modem/router and an 8-port hub.

The Nancy Street domains orthogonal.com.au, orthogonal.net.au, docuscope.com.au and logofreeabc.com are hosted by dyndns.org who use DNS hosting to redirect requests for the domain to the fixed IP of the ADSL connected Nancy Street Server. The Host Headers facility of IIS directs requests for these domains to different local web server directories.

	What software is used at Nancy Street?
	Dreamweaver, ImageComposer, Visual Studio, etc

Web Authoring: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft FrontPage 2007
Image Manipulation: Microsoft ImageComposer 1.5 (deprecated by Microsoft)
Web Browsing: Internet Explorer 7 and 8
Web/FTP Server: Microsoft IIS 6 and 7
Publishing : Office 2003 and 2007
Virus Checking: AVG Free
CD Burning: Nero 7.8.5.0 (with all bloatware components and services carefully removed)
Spam Analysis: Sam Spade
Waveform Editing: CoolEdit Pro 2.1
Mathematical Modelling: Mathematica 4.0
Windows Development: Visual Studio .NET 2008
Music Composition: MusicMatch Finale 2009 (experimental)
Java Development: Borland JBuilder 6 (inactive)
JSP/Servlet Server: Apache Tomcat 4.1 (inactive)
Network Monitoring: Iris 3.1 (inactive)
Music Recording: CakeWalk Pro Audio 9 (inactive)
Help System Authoring: RoboHelp 2002 (inactive)

A discussion of software development issues can be found on the Hobbies » Computers page along with lots of technical articles and downloads.

LAN Configuration

galaxy	Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition The primary domain controller. A small flat Compaq ex-office machine purchased at one of the local swapmeets. The 2.0GHz processor with 256MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive is underpowered, but it doesn't matter as the computer doesn't do anything else but run the domain.
starbase2	Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition The Nancy Street web server, file server and music jukebox. Pentium 2.0GHz with 512MB RAM and 2 x 160GB hard drives. IIS 6 serves orthogonal.com.au, orthogonal.net.au, docuscope.com.au and logofreeabc.com. The jukebox contains 22164 mp3 files (85GB).
magpie	Windows Vista Ultimate Greg's development machine. A quad core Q8200 2.33GHz with 4GB of RAM and 500GB total disc space.
raven	Windows XP Pro Marcia's work machine. A Pentium 2.6GHz with512MB RAM.
sparrow	Windows Vista Ultimate This machine is destined to run the home video and music "media centre", but in the meantime it's being used to run some test operating systems and developer tools under VMWare.

If you have additional questions or want more information,
please send an email to Greg Keogh <>