My new digital camera arrived today. With the money I got for my birthday from my parents and grandparents, I bought myself a Kodak Cx7530, and am so far very pleased with it. It takes good,clear pictures quickly and easily, which is all I really want it to do. I took this photo with it [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Geek Stuff category.
Firefox
Finally abandoned the 1.0.x branch for 1.5b2. I should have done this some time ago. Previously, I was put off by the peculiarity that causes the Linux version to conclude that a profile is in use even if it isn’t when trying to use a profile on a FAT32 partition. Rather than sharing my Windows [...]
Happiness
Hooray, hurrah, yippee, w00t and other exclamations of joy and delight. I finally have access to the Internets from home again. How Azathoth and I have missed you, sweet Internets. All is right with the world.
USB
Well, I now appear to have a working USB controller in my machine again, even if I do now have only two sockets at the back rather than two at the front and four at the back. So I can at last get this Soundgarden album onto my iRiver and listen to it on the [...]
Lilypond
Yay! Lilypond works! I tried installing it a while ago, but there was something wrong and it didn’t work properly. Then last week the Arch texinfo package was updated, and it didn’t work at all. Today, however, a new lilypond package appeared in the repository, and now it all works just fine. Hurrah! Whether the [...]
Favicon
By popular request (well, RAF suggested it a couple of months ago anyway), I have added a favicon for this site. It seems a melodeon will go into 16×16 after all. I originally tried creating a nice little 16x16px PNG icon, and adding the following to the site template: <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/images/blog/favicon.png” type=”image/png” /> [...]
SSH
Another geeky post, but today I finally got around to making a note of my computer’s IP address, putting PuTTY onto my iRiver*, and trying to ssh into my computer from one of the machines on campus. I originally set up sshd on Monday night (hence my learing about the /etc/hosts.* files), but on both [...]
Exam and XCompMgr
I had a Waves, Light and Quanta exam today, which counted for 20% of the course, which is 1/6 of the semester, which, in turn, is 1/2 of the year, making this exam worth 1/60 (1.6%) of the year. My revision was, in the event pretty minimal, and I wasn’t particularly confident going in. However, [...]
Arch TCP Settings
Well, well, well. Apparently, Arch Linux is set up by default to refuse all incoming conections. /etc/hosts.deny contains the one line (besides comments) ALL: ALL: DENY, and /etc/hosts.allow is empty. It is nice, upon learning what these files do, to find such a paranoid default.
New term
So, another holiday ends and a new term begins. As ever, I have forgotten to bring something down with me, this time it’s my jacket. Which had my pens and headphones in the pocket. Fortunately, I have both a spare jacket and some spare pens, so the only real inconvenience is that I can’t use [...]