Those new macs that were announced during the latest Expo in SF are just so cool!
The Mac mini – G4 processor, up to a Gb of RAM, 40 or 80Gb disk and as many connections as a 15″ Powerbook. Firewire 800, firewire 400, USB 2.0, ethernet and modem, with an optional Airport Extreme and/or bluetooth card.
Author: Simon
The problem with holidays…
The biggest problem with having a holiday and not really going out much is that my body clock tends to get all screwed up. Wake at 12pm (lunchtime) and go to bed at 4am.. wouldn’t be so bad except I have work on Tuesday. I guess I should go to bed now.
Annoyances
I’ve been meaning to write this entry for a while but never quite got around to it. It’s probably not all that interesting, but I really want to write it because then maybe when one of these things happens, I’ll stop thinking “Must complain about that (to no-one in particular)”
User Mode Linux
I’ve just spent the best part of 9 hours installing a Fedora Core 3 User Mode Linux (UML) filesystem and configuring it so that it works. It’s been a learning experience for sure, but once I’ve backed up the virtual disks, I can play around with various things like apache2/mod_perl2 without breaking any existing servers and if it all goes horribly wrong, I can just restore the disk back to how it was.
Happy New Year!
It’s 2005. Happy New Year to everyone. Not much to report except that I spent a quiet night in front of the computer experimenting with mod_perl examples from my new practical mod_perl book (see entry about Christmas).
Christmas is over
Well, that’s Christmas over for another year. We went to visit my family in Gloucestershire and surprisingly neither of the kids were wheezing too much. Something always seems to bring on their asthma whenever we stay for more than a day but this time we managed to keep it at bay with regular inhaler doses.
Christmas is coming, everyone’s going mad.
Went to Nottingham to do a spot of Christmas shopping this afternoon. It was utterly packed in the Victoria Shopping Centre and we didn’t really manage to find anything except cookies.
Note to self – remember to do all Christmas shopping online and in October/November next year.
Another note to self – remember to update Amazon wish list regularly and just point people at that as it nears Christmas.
Light on, light off
After just three months of having the bathroom finished, three of the four spotlights in there have died. They all went within the last two weeks. The only one still working is the one that had died and been replaced before the bathroom was even finished!
Wow – these look cool
Mike sent me this link tonight. http://www.ecospheres.co.uk/
They look really cool – it’s a shame they’re quite expensive for the large ones. Look at the Trade->Exhibition page, the ecospheres there must be at least a metre or so across – I can only imagine the cost of those!
Oh no, I’m a “hacker”
A friend at work pointed out this url to me earlier.
http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
I really can’t tell if it’s a serious attempt to “educate” parents or a spoof – it’s just so completely and utterly wrong. Personally, I think it’s one of the funniest pages I’ve read in a while.