Posted by George Wright
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:16:00 GMT
Well, it seems over the last few months my Linksys wireless access point + 4 port switch (BEFW11S4 version 2) has decided to die. Every so often it’ll stop responding and nothing can get through, then it’ll suddenly start working again. Anyway, I now finally have the new networking gear I ordered from eBuyer (those guys are incredibly cheap!). Only problem is that my Titanium PowerBook’s Airport card bluntly refuses to associate with the new access point whilst in Linux (claims the MAC of the AP is 44:44:44:44:44:44).
Anyway, enough of that. It seems Linux World Conf & Expo has now finished and Charles Samuels has uploaded photos to his ktown webspace. The dot now seems to be back up again and Charles seems to have posted a story regarding the expo.
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Posted by George Wright
Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:39:00 GMT
Well, between Monday and Thursday I was at the national cadets rifle shooting competition for the coveted Ashburton Shield. First three days went well (for the Iveagh and Wellington prizes) and I shot quite well at 300 and 500 yards (combined score of 66.5 out of 70.14). However, come the day of the Ashburton (Thursday) and I, along with the rest of my team, messed up. We’ll be lucky to come in the top 10 based on that performance (there were probably about 50 teams there, including Australia…). The fact that the rifle kept smacking me in the eye on Thursday didn’t help either, and I only just seem to have recovered.
Before that, I was working on sorting out the crap that makes up KLatin. The source was a complete mess, and probably still is to an extent. At least it all works though… Just.
And finally - on Thursday my new ADSL got activated. Up from 512/256 all the time with a dynamic IP to 512/256 between 8am and 6pm, and 2048/256 all other times and all weekend, with a static IP - and all for about 2 GBP more than the old connection cost!
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Posted by George Wright
Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:44:00 GMT
At last I have finished my “work experience” and I can start working on KLatin once again. I’ll probably start on Sunday as I’m out in London for a good deal of tomorrow. Must get it working for the freeze in just over a week’s time!
It also seems I’ll be going to UKUUG’s “Linux 2004” (http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/) conference thingy up in Leeds between August 5th - 8th; any UK people coming along? Seems there is only 1 presentation regarding KDE - “Developing a Plug-In structure for your KDE application” by Jesper K. Pedersen. However, the programme looks pretty fun.
As for this month, I’m going back to school next Sunday for four days, then I have the rest of the month off. ;) Isn’t life fun?
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Posted by George Wright
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:10:00 GMT
Well, I’ve fixed the PHP behind the RSS generator for this blog. For some reason the newlines weren’t being replaced with br tags; thanks lypie for helping me with that!
Still no work done on anything KDE related - been busy and ill since I got back home from school, and then work experience all of next week. :( At least afterwards I should have a good 2 months of free time, and I should be attending aKademy, so I have plenty of time to get things done!
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Posted by George Wright
Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:17:00 GMT
Well, seems Chris Howells has registered a new domain for all us KDE United Kingdom junkies out there - get your free kde.org.uk email address today! I now have email addresses @kde.org, @kde.org.uk and @kdemail.net. My, this is fun.. ;)
Also, the DNS for this server is now being hosted by my friend Jim Conner over at a colocation in London.. 2x155Mbps bandwidth.. mmmmm.. nsupdate is a wonderful tool in BIND9 for those of us on dynamic IP addresses.
I have finally got around to updating the main site to be XHTML 1.1 valid, and fixed the CSS for IE 6 users. I don’t know why I bother really - IE users deserve to die in a big chemical fire anyway. :)
And.. finally, I’ve sorted out the email on my server. It no longer forwards to another address, but in fact terminates there on my spool and I use POP3 to download the messages; if anyone else tells me that IMAP4 is better I will surely go mad.
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