Just been planning a day trip and using Multimap to give me driving directions, it came up with the following step that just made me laugh. 100 miles into the journey it reckons I should (driving not walking):
18 Turn right onto PAVEMENT and proceed for 0 miles
If the whole journey wasn’t 100+ miles long, I’d have assumed that was actually walking directions instead of driving.
Author: Simon
Build your own…
…computer case! Lori found a system called Lubic yesterday. It’s a cross between Lego and Mecanno and lets you build either computer cases or just general models.
For those in the UK, Maplin Electronics stock the kits at between 30-50 pounds. Since the sides of the standard shaped cases that you can build are transparent, there’s the chance to add neon lights to make it look really strange.
Fedora Core 1 -> Core 2 upgrade
Despite what several people have said about upgrading from Fedora Core 1 to Core 2, I decided to have a go on my linux box at home (the one this site runs on will have to wait until I have figured out how to upgrade from RedHat 7.3 to FC2).
Harry’s Challenge
Went to Harry Ramsden’s, the fish and chip restaurant, yesterday evening since we’d never been there before and didn’t feel like cooking. It’s quite expensive, on a par with Little Chef, around 8 or 9 quid per adult but the food is really good.
Harry’s Challenge is a 12oz piece of cod or haddock, a huge pile of chips and 2 portions of either garden peas, mushy peas or baked beans.
If you can eat it all, you get a free dessert and a certificate to say that you managed it. Never one to pass up a challenge, I’m sure you can guess what I had.
What does $â mean ?
Since Fedora Core 1 was installed on my linux box at home, I’ve noticed that connecting to it via ssh from Windows or OS X always resulted in strange characters appearing in man pages and certain terminal based applications.
I’ve finally figured out how to stop it…
Compiling DBD::mysql on OSX10.3
Having installed MySQL for OSX from Apple’s UNIX & Open Source downloads section and Server Logistics, I found that the Perl module DBD::mysql wouldn’t compile and install. The solution it seems is to compile it by hand (oh, the horror!)
The lost art of MU*
These days when someone says they enjoy “online gaming” you probably think of 3d games engines with lots of monsters and vast quantities of bullets being fired by players all using the internet to connect to each other and play against each other. Either that or one of the many online casinos where you can’t tell if you lost because the computer at the other end was programmed to make you lose or if it was simply bad luck.
When I was first introduced to the internet back in the early 90s, there wasn’t much to do except download demos from a few large ftp sites, browse some fairly primitive webpages and telnet to various text based services. Online gaming took the form of MU* – MUD, MUCK, MUSE and MUSH.
Recently read
Just finished reading Persuader by Lee Child. It’s a story about an ex-MP (Military Policeman, not Member of Parliament) who goes around getting involved in all kinds of violent stuff, usually involving at least one government organisation such as ATF,CIA,FBI,DEA,etc. There’s often a fair amount of “whodunit” involved as well.
Jokes
Time for a couple of dreadful jokes.
Q. What do you call a man with a spade in his head?
Template Toolkit (Pt 3)
Doh! It seems that Apache::Template (the mod_perl interface for Template Toolkit and a cool looking module) isn’t compatible with mod_perl 1.99 and Apache 2.0.x.