Like Richard “world’s biggest luddite” Alston, before him, Stephen Conroy seems to think that he knows better than you or I what we should be able to access over the Internet. It’s very, very easy to shrilly cry “Protect the Children!” whenever issues of censorship come up, seeking to cynically… Read More
In possibly one of the most bizarre transitions from Internet meme to real life: Rick Astley rickrolls the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Via the always lovely waxy. Read More
Behold the new theme! I’ll be showcasing some of my photos up there in the header bar. Aren’t you lucky? Theme based on the awesome Carrington Theme, by Crowd Favourite. Read More
Plants that roam the earth and seek to annihilate the human race cannot be far away. This amazing article from New Scientist about solar-powered sea slugs that have stolen photosynthesis genes from algae is, quite simply, amazing. Important questions must now be answered. Is this the evolutionary future for vegans?… Read More
Hi folks! I’ve just added a new blog all about seafelt stuff over here at blog.seafelt.com. This blog will be all about IT management software, the sort that seafelt makes. I’ll stop blogging about that sort of thing here, mostly, so that if you’re interested in seafelt stuff, you know… Read More
Regular readers may remember previous tales of woe regarding my Internet connection. I think I might have just solved the problem. Time will tell, but for now, things are already much, much better. I’ve just increased my downstream bandwidth by 4x, and my upstream by around 3x. I replaced the… Read More
We’ve been moving the Unicity servers to new hosted premises, and upgrading from an old SPARC based Solaris server to Solaris 10 on x86. It’s taken some time, with Jim doing most of it. We’ve been upgrading the services from fairly old versions of things to newer and more feature… Read More
Here’s a quick look at seafelt v3.x from the work I’ve done on it today. Click to view full size. Isn’t it pretty? :) Read More
I’ve worked out how to get the Adobe Flash player version 10 working with Ubuntu Hardy on AMD64. It’s weird, and I’m not entirely sure why it works, but lots of people seem to be struggling with this, so hopefully some people find this useful. This is what you’ll see… Read More
I’ve managed to get the desktop upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy (8.04). It wasn’t all smooth sailing, unforunately. Firstly, it seems no one uses IDE disks any more. Or that they’re all now accessed via a SCSI emulation layer. No matter, what used to be /dev/hda became /dev/sda, bumping all the… Read More
