Technical blog of Toby Tremayne (plus other random stuff)
Discovered this [cbsnews.com] linked to from slashdot today. It's intriguiing - very like the details revealed in the Templar Revelation, and in a similar vein to the way you solve the mystery in Gabriel Knight III :) This kind of thing fascinates me - I'd love for them to solve it and find out exactly what it means. Although having these indomitable mysteries does make for a good novel. Mmm maybe that's something I could write :)
Well we had the sleepover last night instead of friday night as B was quite ill on friday. He seems quite happy now which is good. We ended up getting a pizza to share, and discovered that barbeque chicken is a new favourite :) Then we made the cookies and watched finding nemo, with B sitting on my lap all through the movie, so we had a lot of fun. The cookies were a bit of a flop - he wasn't much interested in making them by the time we got to it (too eager to see the film) and then he didn't like them! ach well. All in all it was a lot of fun though. B went to bed with no problems, and we've had a nice quiet morning puddling about, having lots of cuddles and listening to some music. I think we'll have to make a recurring thing of this - I've thoroughly enjoyed it, and it gives Mum a chance to sleep in at home :)
Argh. No really - Argh. I've had another one of those weekends. Trying to fix a machine I'm setting up as a gateway / firewall for a friend and it's been driving me nuts. The bios has no battery and as such won't hold anything other than defaults. The default boot order is harddisk first then cdrom. I was trying to get suse 9 on the damn thing and I tried so many tricks to get the darn thing to fire up the installer. I kept getting kernel panics during the installer boot so I did a whole bunch of other things, swapping the drive between machines, formatting blah blah blah. Eventually I discovered (MORON!) that the little piece of crap didn't have enough memory to run suse 9 properly, so I'm back to where I began. What I *should* have done was leave the install where it was and just upgrade iptables so the firewall script would work nicely. Incidentally, if you're looking for a great firewall to run on linux - go to Atomic [atomicmpc.com.au] they have a nice script there that will build a lovely stateful inspection firewall, and handle masquerading and forwarding for broadband or dialup at the same time. Noice. So. Now I'm doing a nasty text based install hoping it will work. Once it's on, all I need to do is setup ppp for on demand dialing and bob's yer wossname... Oh and during all of this I managed to corrupt my machine yet again. Repair disc fixed it but goddamn I need an upgrade... my hardware is going to give up the ghost sometime very soon I think.
