Ramblings
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Breezy to Dapper upgrade
I figured that I’d upgrade my work PC to Ubuntu Dapper this morning. In retrospect, considering that my heating and hot water pump died this morning, and dropped water all over my floor, I really shouldn’t have done this upgrade. Things that broke: GUI KDE Sound Networking Who knows what else The GUI required a…
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Google Earth, for Linux
Well, with Beta 4 of Google Earth, you can now run it on Linux. I’ve just tested it on my Kubuntu box at work (ATI graphics card, ATI driver), and it worked brilliantly. Went hunting for the place I grew up, and managed to find a decent res image at 13°12′11.60″N by 59°33′59.28″W. Where I…
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Day 8 of the kitchen installation…
So the gas fitter came and went, but not without remarking that there were no mounting brackets for the hob, and that the plinth below the oven needs a 12 mm gap to be legal. Steve is apparently available on Thursday to fix that issue, so the plinth is off for now. All that’s left…
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ADODB, PHP and transactions
I ran into an interesting glitch (and that’s not for lack of a better term) in the ADODB library for PHP today. ADODB is a DB abstraction layer, allowing me to change the underlying DB engine without caring (much) about the code I’ve written. Change the driver name, perhaps the connection string, and everything should…
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The ongoing DSL saga
Well, the DSL saga continues. The call has been escalated by my ISP to BT, and BT have called me for details. This evening, I ran a fresh connection for the DSL modem from the back of the master socket. The downstream noise margin has gone from 5 to 10, and the ATM sync rate…
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From Netware to Microsoft
Years ago (heh), I worked for a .edu in the USA, same place I got my BS degree. At the time, my boss preferred Microsoft to the campus choice of Novell’s Netware. We had the odd stealth Linux server, and even an RS/6000 running AIX (as a web server no less), in the web/Internet department,…