Category: Wayback Retrieval
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Revamping the house – part 1
Dad dropped by yesterday to give me a hand with de-wallpapering the front bedroom. The first steamer was a bust, it appeared to have thermostat problems. Quick trip back to HSS, and I had a working steamer (2.7 kW heater + tank of water). In about 6 hours, with a pause to take the radiator…
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Onwards and southwards – ta-ra ta-ra!
Well, the ball is rolling for me to move south by about 60 miles as the crow flies. Iโve accepted a job at a utilities company as a system administrator, and if things go as planned, I should be starting there at the beginning of July. Cue frenzied packing, cleaning and decorating of the current…
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Dhclient3 and MS DHCP classless static routes
$dayjob uses a Microsoft server for DHCP. Not really a problem, except out of the box, the (K)Ubuntu dhcp client (dhclient3) doesnโt actually support option 249 – classless-static-routes (or ms-classless-static-routes as some sites on the net refer to it). The format that the MS DCHP server spits out is the mask, followed by the subnet,…
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Changing Cameras, part squee!
Squee! ๐ <Insert photo of Nikon D80, lost to time> Much quieter shutter slap than the Konica-Minolta 5D, much faster autofocus. Hopefully itโll be a sunny morning tomorrow, and I can get a shot Iโve been wanting to take for about 3 months! The thought of only fitting 100 images on a 2 GB card…
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EVE Online’s browser…
Calling the In-Game Browser in EVE Online a browser seems to be pushing the definition of the word. Iโm playing with some code that makes use of option lists, and option groups inside of those lists. Every browser from about Netscape 4 supports option groups (and before that based on memory of some screenshots) –…
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Changing cameras, part the second
Went back to Jessops at lunch today, and handled the Pentax and Nikon side by side – switching from one to the other, running test shots (without a card), and getting a feel for the grip, button layout etc. The Pentax K10D is a technically fantastic camera, complete with weather seals, a button for flicking…