Archive for October, 2005

29.10.05 | Comments Off

Bike Locks

Wandering around the net this morning and found this article on bike locks. Its a bit old (1992), but probably still relevant. The bike lock buisness doesn’t really seem to be moving at light speed as far as new products go.
Bit scary, but nothing I didn’t expect already. Makes me wonder how good my [...]

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26.10.05 | Comments Off

Backups are bad mkay…..

Computer crashed on Monday. The / directory was a bit full. So full that I couldn’t even open man pages because they took up too much space.
Got some help from Strauss and Bec fixing it. Seems the problem was the 4 GIG FILE!!!! in /var/archive that I had told the computer to make without realising. [...]

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Finally got my DVD player to work under linux. Not really sure how, installed a few more packages that I didn’t realise that I needed first time round. On the down side, now I’ve broken other stuff.
Lilypond, which I only just installed (again), won’t work. The previous installed version, which I got through a Debian [...]

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22.10.05 | Comments Off

Bikes and Swanston St

After having the new bike for about 3 months now I came off it for the first time yesterday while riding home along Swanston St.
Hurt a fair bit, as I was travelling pretty quickly. I got tangled up in the tram tracks and the front wheel went out from under me. It was raining pretty [...]

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15.10.05 | Comments Off

In the beginning

Well, here it is. My first bit of web real estate. Not much to see here as of yet as it is all still underconstruction.
The Wordpress thing seems pretty easy to use. Will have to fool around with the themes thing to get it looking the way I want though. Having problems getting links [...]

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