Posts categorized under: misc

Farm ore punny

For those who don't know me on IRC, I go by Ng there, and I claim that the following log is the greatest IRC conversation that has ever taken place.

    <koudelkat> He's such a boar
    <Ng> koudelkat: bee quiet, that's a terribull pun ;)
    <lilyj> Ng: No need to …

Music stuff

I picked up the latest Hybrid album recently, called I Choose Noise. It's outstanding, if you are a fan of Hybrid you will definitely like it. If not, go and listen to them on last.fm or something and then go buy the albums! In the process of faffing around …

yay for linux devices

BusyBox v1.00 (2006.11.07-01:40+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

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All your pixels are belong to me!

It's always kinda annoyed me when applications waste space with lots of menu bars and toolbars and stuff, when they could be using the space to show me useful stuff, or just be smaller. I appreciate that lots of people don't want information as densely packed as I do, but …

A year on

I'd just like to say that, a year since I moved to London, things are seriously rocking. I have a great job as a sysadmin for Canonical (the Ubuntu people) and a fantastic girlfriend.


Rike


Dear The Universe, Thanks! Chris

Big Chill

Over the weekend I was at Eastnor Castle with a bunch of friends for The Big Chill, a fantastic little music festival that happens every August. It's nice and small (I reckon about 30,000 people) and very friendly, with lots of very cool bands playing (mostly ones I haven't …

Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS on an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad x40

Note: This post is a work-in-progress, I will probably come back to this and change/update/rewrite it at will I picked up a ThinkPad x40 recently to use with Dapper and I thought I'd chuck up a few notes from my experience thus far. I deliberately chose the ThinkPad …

I moved!

I am now resident in The Big Smoke, although not that near the middle yet. All you Londoners, bring it!