Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

This timely /. article discusses a reason why several Fujitsu drives broke down in the last year. They used a different flame retardent compound in the controller chips! Doesn’t make the loss of my photos any easier to take however. 🙁

We needed to find out how to define templates in OOo as we’re going to produce some PDF documents (courtesy of the very handy “Save As PDF” option!) from OO Writer. TBH I’m mostly clueless when it comes to this sort of thing but this site looks like it has the answers to our questions!

Cube – This looks like an interesting game. It’s got some pretty screenshots and the blurb makes it look appealing.

Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines.

I won’t pretend to know what all that means but I’ll give it a whirl over the weekend!
Here’s the linuxgames.com review that pointed me towards this game.

Further to my previous post on this topic, Liam on #linux pointed me at this report.
I really need to store my backup DVD-Rs standing up and in a dark place instead of having the jewel cases lying on an old PC in my room..

So I finally managed to get the “Nokia Suite” software working in Windows (it doesn’t seem to like an almost fully patched WinXP!) and I have my phone backed up over Bluetooth.
Now, how do I go about deleting 827 texts? I could go through them and pick out the ones from the ex but that would take too long, and by using p3nfs I hoped to do grep -r "ex's phone number" /mnt/psion/C:/Mail/| xargs rm -f but I don’t think p3nfs is stable enough to handle that much traffic. It certainly fell over when I tried to backup my phone using it. I’ll give it a go tomorrow, it might work! Anyway, deleting her number from my contacts is a lot easier! 🙂
If you know of any 7650 app for doing mass-deletes of text messages please leave a comment!
Update! Just figured out that I can “Mark All”, and I then delete the texts with a few clicks of the Option button. Sorted!

Zimran has an interesting but brief analysis of the housing market in Boston. The linked article has more, including this nugget:

… shortly after 2010, housing prices in most currently hot markets are going to fall off a cliff, as boomers downsize.

I don’t expect that to happen here in Ireland at least. Has it happened already? What about the boomers of the 60s here in Ireland? They’re all living in bigger houses now!

I can’t believe it. It’s a year since Spring died. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I took her for a walk in the morning, and we played with her, throwing sticks for her to fetch, or running after her out on the green until shortly before the vet called to the house.
2003 – bye bye, not a good year.

As I mentioned previously, Zac went missing on Saturday. Mel sent me a text last night with 3 words I was hoping to hear, “Zac is back.”
Zac was sleeping on a neighbour’s window sill for the 2 nights he was missing and the owners saw the notice in the local shop and got in touch! Yay! 🙂

A few days ago I reported on 2 car accidents in which 5 people lost their lives. Justin provided a comparision between Ireland and the USA WRT car accidents. Here in Ireland, it makes the news when someone dies on the roads, and that makes people more aware of the dangers of road travel. There are the same number of deaths in the US but apparently they’re not as widely reported. Why is that? Justin says it better so have a look at his blog!
The last week has been a bad time in Ireland because of some exceptionally heinous crimes. I was going to provide some commentry around these links but I find myself unable to do so. [1] [2 ] [3] [4]

The latest updated local-rules.procmail from John Hardin has a rule to catch the new NovArg worm. The worm is caught by his security script anyway, but this Procmail recipe identifies the worm.
Update! It seems that the worm uses files with the .zip extension to transmit itself. These aren’t mangled by default so it’s probably worth adding “.zip” to your mangle list for the next week or so. John has more to say..