musings on software development, writing and life

K3B with Sudo

• June 29th, 2004
• Posted in Tech

For anyone who’s using KDE 3.2 and has had problems with K3B (specifically cdrecord or similar failing because it didn’t have the right permissions…) I discovered a post to a mailing list that got my issues sorted out. Apparently making cdrecord et al suid isn’t enough – you need to sudo properly, so what I No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Family Time

• June 28th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

We’re back from Phillip Island (for all of 10 minutes) – and it rocked! It was a lot of fun, and B had a ball. Our first family holiday, mini though it was, was definitely a success. The penguins performed and we got to see a bunch of them up very close Related posts:

1. Family
2. Family Perambulations

Bird brains

• June 25th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

We’re off to Phillip Island this weekend to see the penguins! The little one should love it – he’s been chattering about it for ages now. I just hope it doesn’t rain while we’re sitting waiting for the little creatures to come waddling up out of the sea. It should be a No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

New Trade

• June 25th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

“Big Michael” has finished coding his blog in cold fusion – which I’m quite impressed by! My first forays into cold fusion were somewhat embarassing hehe but he’s done a nice job, and picked a new colour set as well. Go take a look see – he’s an interesting guy. [202.174.228.170] Tweet This Related posts:

1. Free Trade my eye…

Proud as punch

• June 25th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

A little while ago I found out from my mother that my little brother Mark has been given an award. Not just any award either – the National Bravery award. He was given a silver medal, for breaking up a potentially lethal fight in St Albans and keeping it broken up until police No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Shinyness

• June 25th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

I have a working phone! I finally got a new mobile to replace the piece of rubbish I’ve been lugging about for ages – now I can finally receive calls and get a battery life greater than 3 minutes… I bought the motorola V600, which is extremely shiny and nice – lotsa nice buttons and Related posts:

1. Manifesto of Shinyness
2. Guilt-free Shinyness

Workaholics

• June 24th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

Isn’t is interesting how society comes full circle time and time again. It used to be we sent the men out on the boats or down the mines, working their guts out to feed their family, and god help them if they have no children to care for them when they’re too old to No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

World Away Day

• June 19th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

Wow. Wednesday saw the unveiling of the grand plan for world away day – 0845 we began with Tai Chi, which was nice. The whole day was organised with entertainment and great food – they’d hired a tv actor to MC the thing which was a great idea as he did a really Related posts:

1. Hello World
2. World of Warcraft

Suse 9.1

• June 19th, 2004
• Posted in Tech

Having recently completed a full install and setup everything I need – I have to recommend SuSE 9.1 to everyone out there. It’s absolutely gorgeous to look at, and very robust – plus with the 3.6 kernel and some tweaks made in kde there are some nice little features that make life easier, like Related posts:

1. SuSE 9.2

Hardware Blues

• June 19th, 2004
• Posted in Journal

Bah. It’s just one thing after another – I’m technologically challenged at the moment. My main box at home died, and it took me a little while to work out why – turns out the primary hard disk I had in, which was a windows partition had failed to the point that even No related posts.[ READ MORE ]