Category: Personal
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Wii Sports still makes me snigger
The better half and I headed up to see Korpora and Purple Chaos (there is something odd about using LJ names in WordPress…) this weekend. The drive up was quite horrible, but I guess thats what you expect from the M5/M6 these days. Nevermind, the company up north more than made it worth it. Once…
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E-bay search, mk2
Having disliked E-bay’s new search so much, I am pleased to see that things seem to have gone back to the old ways. Not completely, but enough that things are usable again 🙂 Well done E-bay for admitting when they messed up and sorting it.
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E-bay’s new search
Not sure when it went ‘live’ but I see today that E-bay has a new search. God its terrible! I search for “6001 bearing” and it only shows me results from “Car and Vehicle”, listing 4 results. It has a link to another group, “pocketbikes” with another result, but thats it. I know damn well…
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Apache 2.2 on Morgins
I upgraded Apache from 2.0 to 2.2 on Morgins this morning. Gentoo seem to try and make this process as difficult as possible 🙁 The script on the upgrade page, which makes the APACHE_OPTIONS line for make.conf, cocks up and puts dashes instead of underscores, and also misses some basic options you will want, like…
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Joined up thinking
Credit where credit is due as they say. So I’d like to give some credit to Dear Auntie Beeb for releasing a Mac/Linux compatible version of their iPlayer. I knew I was going to miss Buzzcocks this evening so I aquired a DVI->HDMI cable and hooked my MacBook up to the tele. It worked better…
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What did you get for Christmas? Flu?
So how was your Christmas? Did you get all you wanted? I’m not sure that flu was on the list of my better half and kids, but they got it anyway. I seem to have missed out for the most part, just a head cold mainly. 3 days in bed seems to have helped the…
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Leopard, part 2.
Through the joy of blog comments (see here) the Junipers Network connect VPN client is now working for me on Leopard. This is good, as I can now switch my MacBook over to Leopard. Sadly that is not as easy as I had hoped, because Apple’s Migration Assistant can’t copy my user’s data again to…
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PiP, PbP… a dual desktop solution?
I’m still pondering desktop setups, but I have had what I think is a genius idea (like all my ideas, obviously 😉 ). If I get a monitor with dual selectable inputs, and better yet one with picture-in-picture and picture-by-picture, I can connect up both the Desktop and the Laptop to one monitor and switch…
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Two hundred and fifty quid for what?
So I’m still pondering the best desktop set up for me, work-wise. At the moment I run an old G4 (1.2Ghz, 2GB) as a desktop and VNC my MacBook (orig 1.83 CoreDuo) so I don’t have to mix up my two Mail.App installs and because I want (need ;)) dual displays. I’m not unhappy but…
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Trick or treat?
Its Halloween tonight. This usually doesn’t concern me because for the past several I’ve lived in a flat with a gated courtyard to no one could ever know. Now, however, I live in a house, with kids living all around. Annoying kids at times to, that like to knock and run or kick footballs against…