Links for today, though this is fundamentally true it also sort of implies there would be other links on onther days, which is not the case.

As working for a degree requires a certain degree of verbosity, I'm attempting to get some practice. I'm not doing well.

Various Trivia

Virtual Barmaid though the individual is a little too much of the standard Barbie Doll for my own tastes. I wonder if someone will do a Virtual Plumber or Builder who just sucks air through his teeth and shakes his head?

Today's dinner is a rather spiffing chicken korma, especially as it seems to be something in black bean sauce with rice. Either someone was bored or vindictive either at the factory or ar the store. Oh well, a surprise is just as good.

For those wondering where I've been (I know that would be a very, very short list, possibly a negative number, in fact) I have been attempting to study 2 modules simultaneously. It was only for 2 weeks and I though it would have been ok. It would have, too, if BT had not stuffed up my network connection. So far in the past 7 days I've had more than 50 hours offline, with no sign of a connection returning anytime soon. And no, cable broadband is not available here. I'm in an NTL area.

Drat.

So I started trying to make my linux box into a router with a modem. To find out it's a Winmodem (if you don't know what that is, look it up in webopedia or wikipedia as I can't provide a link).

Double Drat.

On the plus side, I'm making a concious effort to be more happy at work. It's working too. Leaving at 5:30 seems to help an awful lot. i work mostly alone in the maintenance bay, fixing that, configuring this and possibly generally fiddling fixing things. i keep it varied during the day so I don't get too bored and this seems to help a lot. I never plan ahead for myself because as soon as I do, someone comes along and gives me a new plan. Though there are things to be done there - such as try to organise a pile of parts and machines that is constanly changing. I do wonder what we can do with over 100 1Ghz industrialised PCs and the growing pile of 2.6Ghz industrialised PCs. Then there's the collection of 60 or so VGA resolution 20 inch LCD screens. And there's the cameras. Hundreds of them. All 12 volt, composite only, about an inch and a half square, some colour, some black and white.

Spurred on by a friend's posting (who may disagree with that assessment) I wanted to remember the place and order of places I've lived. It's quite a list.

Ashford, Middx (Born). Moved when 2.

Calverley, Leeds. Moved when 7. Parents split up.

Idle, Bradford. Moved aged 10ish

Garforth, Leeds. Moved aged 12ish

Micklefield, Leeds. Moved aged 16

Bethnal Green, London. Moved aged 16. Sharing with parent.

Walthamstow, London (6 weeks). Sharing with sibling.

Gants Hill, London. 6 months. Sharing with sibling.

West Norwood, London. 1 year. Sharing with sibling.

Totteridge & Whetstone, London. 1 year. Sharing with 3 blokes.

Southall, London. 1 year. Sharing with 2 blokes.

Norbury, London. 1 year. Sharing with parent.

Hounslow, London. 9 months ish. Sharing with parent and 1 bloke.

Minamisunamachi, Tokyo. 1 year. On my own for the first time.

Ashford, Middx. 1 year. Sharing with parent.

Ashford, Middx. 3 years. Sharing with partner.

East Dulwich, London. 7 years. Or something. Still here. Shared with partner and a few other transients.

12 places since I left home 18 years ago. Holy removals. I've only lived alone in Tokyo and East Dulwich (ignoring some periods my partner may have spent elsewhere).

Book meme

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
...along with these instructions.


"A very common cause of protocol failure is that the enviroment changes, so that assumptions that were originally true no longer hold, and the security protocols cannot cope with the new threats."

Meme courtesy of Alan

Well I think I'm about to give up on Linux. I've tried 3 distributions (RedHat, Fedora Core 2 and Knoppix) and all fail a PCI 3com card. The card works fine in Windows and used to work when I first tried it. Trying to find out why it's failing it beyond me right now.