Dean Sas's Weblog » General http://www.deansas.org/blog Tappity tap tap Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:21:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Froggat Edge http://www.deansas.org/blog/2007/11/04/froggat-edge/ http://www.deansas.org/blog/2007/11/04/froggat-edge/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:13:29 +0000 Dean http://www.deansas.org/blog/2007/11/04/froggat-edge/ 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

Curbar Edge


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

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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.

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Wii box

I may not be responsive to email for a while.

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]]> http://www.deansas.org/blog/2007/09/01/owned/feed/ 1 Freelink http://www.deansas.org/blog/2007/08/29/freelink/ http://www.deansas.org/blog/2007/08/29/freelink/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:38:45 +0000 Dean http://www.deansas.org/blog/2007/08/29/freelink/ 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.

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I’m not quite sure why it matters what editor people use but it makes the advert memorable and means it’s likely to be talked about, ‘viral recruitment’ perhaps. I guess this post means that it worked.

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Recently I’ve been toying with a Gnome applet for the Twitter API – that notifies you when your friends twitter. I’m struggling to get it to work with the gnome-panel, it looks easy, I must be missing something though. I’m going to leave it now until May.

Earlier today I submitted a (pretty trivial) patch to the gimmie project that makes it look up the default web browser instead of hard coding Firefox as the “favourite application”.

I’ve also submitted fixes for a few small packaging bugs in Ubuntu – I think I understand the .deb package format and process now, once I get time I’d like to spend some time packaging some applications from scratch, just to make sure it’s clear.

I also did a little bit of hacking and code reviews on the bughelper project back in January, but haven’t had time to keep up with its rapidly changing code base.

Aside from that I’ve been doing my usual Ubuntu bug triage work, and also hanging out with the Ubuntu UK LoCo team

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