Dean Sas’s Weblog

Froggat Edge

// November 4th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // General

I went on this walk from Froggat Edge to Curbar Edge and then back along White Edge. There was lots of fog around, which looked especially nice on the drive there when descending from Beeley Moor onto the B6102, and seeing the opposite hill peek through it. The weather was less fun when attempting to take pictures from the edges into the valley below and of Karl Wark in the distance, though it was nice weather for walking (and judging by the climbers, also for climbing).

Silhouetted King of the World

Curbar Edge

You can see lots of other photos people have taken in the area, some of which are absolutely stunning, particularly this one.

Migrant

// November 3rd, 2007 // 1 Comment » // General

Apparently even though I’m 3rd generation I’m still a migrant, still waiting for the house though.

Using Windows

// October 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // General

I’ve been using Windows this weekend (installing Counterstrike: Source) for the first time in months. After being spoilt by apt-get and synaptic I’d forgot how annoying managing programs is in Windows.

Before installing CS:S I had to remove a lot of programs to free some disk space, which consisted of going through packages in add/remove programs one by one and pressing “remove”, “next”, “next”, waiting an age and then pressing ok which requires I’m at the computer actively managing the process all of the time.

The same process in synaptic consists of clicking on the package you wish to remove and then choosing “remove” from the pop up menu. When you’ve chosen all the packages you wish to remove, press ‘apply’, then go and have a cup of tea. Mmm tea.

22

// September 1st, 2007 // No Comments » // General

For my birthday Sara bought me this:

I may not be responsive to email for a while.

Owned

// September 1st, 2007 // 1 Comment » // General

Freelink

// August 29th, 2007 // No Comments » // General

I spent Monday afternoon flashing my Linkstation twice. I flashed it with Freelink – a firmware containing a basic Debian installation. This means that instead of having a Buffalo custom variation of Linux, I have Debian and all of the packages that that includes.

I promptly managed to mess up the network configuration file and so once I rebooted the Linkstation, it didn’t have an IP address and as it doesn’t have any other access method it was rendered inaccessible. Fixing this necessitated opening the Linkstation up, plugging the drive into another computer, removing all content from the drive and then putting it back together and reflashing it.

I intend on using the Linkstation for automated backups and for making my music accessible over the network using DAAP. I’m sure I’ll think of other things.

XML transformation

// August 26th, 2007 // No Comments » // General

It’s quite something when it’s easier to transform an XML file using a general purpose language (ruby) than the same thing using a language designed for that purpose (XSL). Impressively, Ruby has RSS libraries built into it’s standard library, see Ruby RSS for a brief example.