19 Girl Guides Descend Upon Us

News Flash: Intelligence tells me that 19 girl guides are about to descend upon us imminently. Somehow, I think the scouts are going to go out of their way to show them how to use IRC chat ...... watch this space!

Network Issues

We experienced some network issues this morning. We are using the schools broadband and we needed more ip addresses than were available in the range we had been allocated.


The solution involved me driving 35km home to pick up an old Netgear WGR614 router. This router has a single RJ45 socket for inward traffic and then splits into 4 outward RJ45 sockets. The nice thing about it is it accepts a single inward IP address and then acts as a DHCP server allocating ip addresses to all our computers. This gave us 253 unique ip addresses which is more than enough for our requirements.

Setting Up JOTI 2009

We arrived at Cotswold School on Friday evening at 07:00pm. The school hall is totally empty.

The pc's start arriving .......

The tables get set out ......

The computers get put on top of the tables .....


Then everything needs to be cabled up .....


And finally we are ready to go!

Be Prepared

Ben has brought with him an Apple ibook and a laptop PC. You might be thinking how can he possibly use two computers at once? So are we! Please tell us below why you think Ben needs two computers.

Tents Pitched

We have around 30 scouts and guides sleeping over tonight so we have a number of tents pitched on the school field. However, I'll be very surprised if any of them get used as most of the scouts will be chatting to Africa, the Middle East & Europe in the small hours of the morning.

Hope we don't run out of Marmite!

Marmite is one thing that Kiwi scouts insist upon at camp. Matt was really concerned that we might run out so he brought his own supplies with him!

We are off again .......

We are once again back at Cotswold School in Christchurch New Zealand to spend yet another weekend attending a Jamboree On The Internet. This year we have 40 brand new Pentium computers all kindly donated by the University of Canterbury and Christchurch City Council.

We are expecting well over 100 scouts, cubs, keas, guides and rangers to pass through the door this weekend. We have tents for sleeping, Roger for cooking, Papabear for moderating, Andrew for organising and Ian for blogging!

It should be a fun weekend!