Archive for the 'geek' Category

Bacon

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

See xkcd for more time wastings

BBC News site redesign

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Sent to BBC Comments today regarding the new style on the BBC News website…
I may be in a minority, but although my screen may be 1024×768, that
is not the resolution at which my applications run. I often (nee all
the time) have many applications open at once and the most efficient
way to know what’s going on […]

Thumpers at Dreamhost

Monday, December 17th, 2007

My current webhost (Dreamhost) seem to be trying out (maybe even moving to) Thumpers from their traditional NetApps.
Thumpers are (up to) 48 Terabytes of storage in 4u… that’s pretty amazing really.
This has had the slightly annoying side-effect that the .snapshot directory has disappeared meaning user-driven restores aren’t possible on some of their servers (the […]

BlackCT

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

So, today was the day I had scheduled to upgrade our ageing WebCT 6 system to the latest version.
Four hours into the upgrade of the first of three updates I needed to apply, the following error is produced:
Installation error. com.webct.platform.installer.InstallerException: Unexpected error executing [webct_stat.sql]. ORA-04021: timeout occurred while waiting to lock object WEBCT.WEBCT_STAT
Great.
So I […]

Digital Rights Management

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Just a notice to say I’ve had a ePetition accepted on the Number 10 Website regarding the application of Digital Rights Management — the ability for software and hardware to decide if users are “allowed” to do something: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make DRM and associated technologies illegal in IT hardware […]

Ok, long time…

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I’ve written my (mostly camera) wishlist.
It’s here and automagically updates

Camera Update

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Ok, so after much dribbling… they went and took away the decent 350D deal I was looking at (350D+18-55mm+55-200mm+grip). So, instead, I’ve gone and got myself a Canon 400D with standard 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 and dmc’s 75-300mm f4-5.6 to go with it… along with a rather swish looking backpack to keep it all in.
Oh, and “yay […]

In search of…

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

I’ve been umming and arrings (and drooling) over getting a new camera for some time now (seriously thinking since about March).
Most of this time, I’ve had my eyes on a Canon 350D with some combination of lenses. [1]
What I’m after is a low-end, but extensible DSLR which I can experiment with, have fun with and, […]

flickr

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

RIP _58fr

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

On Thursday, a five year institution comes to an end and, as I wore an I’m blogging this tshirt to the farewell bbq, I suppose I ought to at least make some effort.
At the end of my first year at ukc, five of us moved into a house on an estate in Canterbury. As we […]

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