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One of PHP’s more surprising error messages. It’s in hebrew, ‘paamayim nekudotayim’ means a ‘::‘.

For those of you that read my posts ages ago about parsing Superbase files with Perl (Parsing Progress and Parsing Binary data with Perl), here’s an update
I finally found some documentation of the SBF file format. It has made the work a lot easier.
I had realised before that the data was split into multiples of [...]

I’ve finally got my TV card working under Linux and it only took me just over 3 months and several kernel upgrades. I am now running Linux kernel 2.6.15 which I hadn’t even realised was out yet.
Installing things would be a lot easier if the hardware vendors always had ways of uniquely identifying what they [...]

With the release of Blender 2.40 I’ve been trying to get into 3D modeling. Here is a quick image I put together in less than 5 minutes (after watching the video tutorial on Dupliverting).

The image above was made bt dupliverting a NURBS Sphere onto an IcoSphere and then applying a Ramp as the material in [...]

My router broke sometime between 3am and 11am (when I was asleep) this morning. I thought it might have been the plug so I went into Maplin to see fi I could get a new one. It turned out the one the guy reccommended was the same as the one I’d bought in there a [...]

I went up to London this weekend for the London Perl Workshop which was run by the London Perl Mongers. The journey there was a bit of a disaster but we finally got there.
I went to several presentations:

Packaging Perl Applications
Dealing with issues surrounding packaging Perl code as a standalone unit.

The Goo
A productivityapplication someone built for [...]

My GP2X arrived today. It is very shiny. I’ve been spending most of the afternoon playing with it. I’ve put a SNES emulator on it and I am currently checking out some of the ROMs I’ve got. I’m thinking of puting The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on it because I have [...]

I moved the little Dell box onto my desk today. It looks cool and very colour co-ordinated with the rest of my stuff.
The box on the left is Lifestream, it’s my file server, notice the removable hard-drive bays. The case was originally white but I spray painted it, recently I re-did it because of scratches.
The [...]

Heres a photo of the monitor I picked up in the carload of stuff Rich bought from the computer shop.

Unfortunately during testing it emmited a loud BANG!! So I think it’s dead. Oh well, to plan B, make it into a fishtank.

I have finally gotten around to putting the sides of the case back on to my file server. I took them off ages ago and spraypainted them because it had gotten scratched. They have been sitting around in the spare room where my parents were getting increasingly annoyed at them being there.
I have also acquired [...]