Category Archives: Home Life
I think I have stressed my poor car
Got bored on tuesday and took it for a little spin, not far, it was under 400Km for the round trip. Around 300Km into the trip there started to be a really load annoying whining sound. It’s not from the … Continue reading
WordPress, why does it need internet access ?.
WordPress runs like a dog without internet access. I had powered off my network routers, as I’m nice to other internet users and didn’t want my internal host discovery/penetration testing etc to spill outside my own network… and wordpress just … Continue reading
To the Vet again
Had to take poor Fletcher to the vet again. The poor boy is getting old. When I got home on saturday he was in such a hurry to greet me he banged his leg against something running to the door. … Continue reading
More expense, another burst pipe
What a morning. Sleep interrupted by my pager, all that was sorted. Then I got up this morning, and realised I had to interrupt someone elses day, an urgent call to a plumber; there is not supposed to be water … Continue reading
Another disk failure, must be that time of year
Another expensive few weeks, lots of bills all at once. And now it appears I have had another disk drive failure, a 320Gb (boot and OS disk) one in my main patching server; fortunately the patching components are mirrored to … Continue reading
C64 playtime
Playing with C64 emulators again. Still haven’t decided which one to use. FRODO compiles under Fc14, Vice does not. However VICE is available as a binary from RPMFUSION repositories for FC14 anyway which does work. Under Linux, my preferred OS, … Continue reading
Trying to find a usable disk erasure tool.
My Ex wants something to overwrite securely all space left by those deleted files; as we all know deleting a file doesn’t delete the actual data off the disk. The reason being she wants to be able to pass on … Continue reading
Triple boot from OSX now working, but life is a bitch
Finally got that working. Now my new desktop can boot into OSX, Vista and Fedora. The Vista image is pre-SP1, as I just can’t get SP1 to install on there at all, but that will be in another post. Where … Continue reading
Youtube is great for recipes.
I think I’ve watched all the Iron Chef epiosodes now (well those with ingredients I will cook with anyway, can’t see any point in watching the shark fin or sea urchin ones (ugh)). But in searching for episodes I also … Continue reading
DosBox
I dicovered DosBox a few weeks ago. Discovered pherhaps is not quite the right word as I was actively searching for something like that. Basically I wanted to play one of my old games (toon struck) and it refused to … Continue reading