Going to be starting my BS203 text study shortly… After some discussion on the packaging list, Pascal has produced packages of Gaim 2.0.0beta1. I’m very glad for him to maintain packages rather than me, given the little time I have to dedicate to it these days, and they seem pretty stable. If you try them …
Monthly Archive: December 2005
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Dec 18 2005
World Club Championship Final
Sao Paulo v LiverpoolToday; Yokohama Stadium, Japan; 10.20 GMT. Now that, rather inconveniently, clashes with Church this morning. So, the VCR is set, and the whole match will be recorded. My mobile phone is off, and we’ll be playing a CD in the car to avoid hearing the result on the radio. If anyone tells …
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Dec 18 2005
Poor Punctuation Alert!
Mauricio: bought myself a christma’s gift … Now, let’s ignore the fact that Christmas is spelt with an upper-case C, and go straight for the stray apostrophe. The way you’ve spelt it means a gift belonging to christma, whoever that may be. The correct usage would be Christmas gift. May I recommend Eats, Shoots & …
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Dec 17 2005
Goodbye Tia
We took Tia to the vet today because she’d been suffering a bit recently due to old age (she was about two years, three months old), and the result was that she was put to sleep – she basically had no quality of life and not long to go. This is how we’ll remember her …
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Dec 16 2005
College Christmas Bash
Was tonight (in fact, it’s still going on…) Forgot to take my camera, but it was a fantastic night. House band, The Apostles, absolutely rocked, and the guest/resident DJ (from Radio 1, Jo T’s brother) is playing a storming set as I type. Liverpool 3-0 Deportivo Saprissa.The lads simply outclassed the Costa Rican side to …
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Dec 15 2005
People
Wow, Justin may not blog all that often, but when he does, he really goes to town… Welcome to Planet SUSE, Mauricio. Mauricio’s going to be working on adding YaST repository support to Smart, along with Pascal and Christoph. Also welcome to Larry. Larry’s blog is packed with handy hints and tips on SUSE, as …
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Dec 13 2005
Power outage
There was a power outage here at 05:39 GMT this morning. Annoyingly, home.rubberturnip.org.uk (web/mail server) came up okay when power was restored, but capybara.internal.rubberturnip.org.uk (DNS server, among other things) did not – its power supply (being about ten years old) does not respond to power being available (and its BIOS won’t let it boot without …
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Dec 12 2005
’tis the season…
So, less than two weeks until Christmas. I actually found myself this afternoon referring to it as Incarnation-tide because I wanted to keep it in my consciousness that this is the time of year when we remember, but not necessarily when it happened, that 2,000 years ago God became a human being. That he was …
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Dec 11 2005
gnome-art
The weekend’s network issues totally killed my plans to spend some of yesterday building SUSE packages of GNOME Art (and the required Ruby bindings etc…). Will do it as soon as I get a chance. Last week of term starts tomorrow, College Christmas Bash on Thursday. Vacation here I come!
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Dec 10 2005
Network issues
Some network upgrades were done overnight that affected the line that home.rubberturnip.org.uk is on. This screwed somethings up for me (in terms of outbound HTTP/1.1 being scuppered) and for anyone emailing me (in terms of SMTP routing being b0rked) so anyone who emailed me since around 23.00 GMT yesterday may have to resend.
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