BBC journalists do have moments of magnificence that very few can ever hope to match…
“The sight of two men pushing a partially-dressed, pale, stiff body on an office chair raised the suspicions of a passing policeman.”
Well…you *hope* it would. You really, really do.
My rebuilding-really-old-stuff binge is continuing. I got stuck for about three days on Skencil, a fairly old but still moderately used drawing app. After lots of frustration, lots of grepping, lots of exceedingly ugly perl substitution commands and several patches judiciously stolen^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed from other distros, we now have a Skencil package that builds on 2007.0, […]
Sorry to anyone who tried to register for an account on here lately - I just realized the other day that I didn’t set up postfix when I moved the server to a VM, so the mails haven’t been going out. Registering should now work. If you registered an account but never got the password […]
So, here’s the inevitable ’setting up the new system’ post!
Just as a reminder (and for Google), this is about my new Lenovo 3000 V100 laptop on Linux, more specifically Mandriva Linux 2007.0. It’s the C5U submodel (this is important as the wireless chipset and CPU differ between submodels).
The good stuff - most things work. Heh. […]
So, elevator fishing was a wash - I lost my magnet. Sigh. Now waiting for the elevator company to come on routine maintenance and get the damn things back for me.
Now, on a happier note - I was talking to David Barth (our new Mandriva tech overlord) today and got some nice bits of news. […]
From Dan’s Data, quoted for hilarious truth:
“I have a rule about newspaper photographs of people. The more tricks the photographer’s used, the more boring the person is.
Steve Wozniak can safely be photographed sitting behind a desk smiling. A guy whose most interesting characteristic is that he owns a huge conglomerate that makes garden twine, on […]
So I’ve just been helping Eugenia (from OS News) test out this - a cheap USB Skype / SIP phone. We had a bit of trouble with Gnomemeeting, but as far as the phone goes, in OS X the speaker but not the mic works for Skype; in Linux, both the speaker and the mic […]
If you play many RPGs - especially Japanese ones - this will be one of the best things you read this week. It’s a painfully exhaustive and accurate list of the genre cliches. I particularly like this one:
# Pretty Line Syndrome (or, Crash Bandicoot: The RPG)
Seen in most modern RPGs. The key to completing your […]
I’m watching New England playing Carolina…commentary is a tricky thing, but the announcer really got a bit tripped up by his own negatives with this one:
“Don’t tell me this is a team that doesn’t think they can’t come back”
Erm…OK, I’ll try not to.
Via Luis Villa: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme. Contains language that is not work-safe, and you have to know a bit about Mac OS X’s interface troubles to get it, but it’s hilarious.