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I was trying to get a Java SSH client on my phone. It didn’t work, the connection kept dropping to the site as I was trying to download to my phone. The site is here. It’s GPLed. I hope you have more luck than I did

I’m feeling particularly motivated today. I’m preparing a box to test my final year project on. It was running Dead Rat… umm I mean Red Hat 9. First task, unplug peripherals from desktop box, plug them into other box. Step two, Debian Sarge net install CD. I think I’ll go for the 2.6 kernel. Next [...]

Yesterday I spent a load of my birthday money, on two more series of Star Trek TNG (two and four), Series 5 of Red Dwarf. Broke some things today when I wiped the Debian install that I was trying to do on Neoseph. Debian took over GRUB and the computer didn’t like it when I [...]

The university has decided to streamline their coursework submission procedure by having students stick barcodes on their work. Unfortunately they’re going to start charging for sheets of barcodes on Monday. There have been emails going around about students wanting a way to print off their own barcodes but the uni said it was too expensive [...]

I’ve installed Firefox on my Linux partition also now. I realised I liked it better than the Mozilla suite after using it a lot on Windows over the past few days. The SuSE partition now has apt4rpm on it too. I like apt-get it’s so easy. apt-get install <shiny_new_software> Then apt-get goes away and to [...]

My gentoo install is getting along well. I can now boot on its own rather than running chrooted under Knoppix. The biggest problem has been trying to get the eth0 working I had to compile support for the sis900 ethernet into the kernel.

After getting this obscure error, I say “obscure” because Google only returns one result for it. The error is caused by using the Knoppix /dev filesystem for the Gentoo install. The bootstrapping script tries to write to it and realizes it’s already full of stuff. The solution mentioned on the forums says to only mount [...]

I’m in the middle of a stage one Gentoo install on my laptop. A stage one is where you compile everything, even the compiler. It’s a distro for people who like waiting. At the moment it is currently downloading the bootstrapping stuff. This is going to take a very long time… When you run Gentoo [...]

A random thought while I was working on the messages page. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could reveal more things on my website depending on how often someone visits it, sort-of like the way you can talk to a character more than once in an RPG and they’ll reveal more information. I could develop [...]