Tag: wayback machine

  • 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. Iโ€™ve 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…

  • 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) doesnโ€™t 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,…

  • Changing Cameras, part squee!

    Squee! ๐Ÿ™‚ <Insert photo of Nikon D80, lost to time> Much quieter shutter slap than the Konica-Minolta 5D, much faster autofocus. Hopefully itโ€™ll be a sunny morning tomorrow, and I can get a shot Iโ€™ve been wanting to take for about 3 months!  The thought of only fitting 100 images on a 2 GB card…

  • EVE Online’s browser…

    Calling the In-Game Browser in EVE Online a browser seems to be pushing the definition of the word.  Iโ€™m 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) –…

  • 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…

  • Behold the power of the Internet

    Praise be to the power of the Internet, and the Hive Mind that inhabits Ars Technica.  I posted there, enquiring about the lens options for the D80, as Iโ€™d like to avoid spending too much on the replacement for the 5D.  A reply by kefkafloyd supplied me with information Iโ€™d been unable to find anywhere…