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So I finally got around to doing something I’ve been vaguely considering doing for almost as long as I’ve had a blog at all: migrating it over to Wordpress rather than using Blogger to administer it and Haloscan for comments.
I’ve set up some [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Geek Stuff category.
Wordpress
Camera repairs
A few months ago, my camera broke. I had been wearing it attached to my belt more or less permanently, foolishly assuming that the case I had bought with it would be sufficient to protect it in this position. I was wrong. At some point it had evidently been pressed too hard against my side [...]
Linux Media Players
Well, with the move to version 2, Amarok has gone from being actually quite usable provided you turn off all the annoying shit, to just plain annoying. So I’ve had to find a new audio player for Linux.
Whenever I’ve tried Audacious before, there have been annoying bugs in the UI that make it unusable for [...]
Keyboard
Cleaned my keyboard this afternoon. This was long overdue, actually; the damn thing was filthy. It now startles me with its cleanness every time I look down at it.
I must admit, even now it isn’t completely spotless, and several of the keys are stained and discoloured, which I don’t think there’s anything I can do [...]
Eldar and ‘Puter
So, I now have an Eldar army for Epic Armageddon. The models from GW arrived on Tuesday and those from Forge World arrived this morning. Except, unfortunately, for the Falcon grav-tanks, which will apparently be sent later.
Meanwhile my computer is up and running again, now that I’ve replaced the motherboard (and the RAM, while I [...]
Employment
Things are looking up on the job front. Firstly, I have an interview for a Lab Technician job with LGC Forensics on Tuesday. Secondly, Signal want me back on a permanent basis.
The problem with the Lab tech job is that it’s in Culham, which is about two hours away by public transport. Plus, of course, [...]
Death
Not, of course, the death of any actual people, but rather of the PSU on my computer. It’s been on the way out for a while (the bearings on the fan are knackered, so that it would occasionally start making an infuriating rattling sound that would go on for a few hours before it sorted [...]
Error
I’m really not sure how to interpret this error message.
Err, what?
H132
Recently, my trusty old iRiver H120 has been running low on space. It had finally got to the point where if I wanted to put a new album onto it, I would have to delete one that was already there. So clearly it was time for an upgrade.
However, replacing the player would be difficult. Quite [...]
Clearlooks-cairo
I attempted to try out the new Cairo-based version of Clearlooks this evening. First I tried wrestling with the PKGBUILD from the AUR, which didn’t work (complaining of some strange cvs problem). Eventually I was able to get hold of the source from cvs, and nudge ABS into building a package out of it by [...]