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went to essex for dinner on saturday. it was really nice although i am drinking far too much at the moment. it was a proper roast beef dinner except with no yorkshire puddings!
the whole family were there, my brothers and parents and babies, except for vicky and rebecca who haven't come to a family do yet.
sofias family have arrived from spain last night to stay for a week. they have brought loads of lovely spanish food and wine. we are taking sofias sister out tonight for cocktails. i am probably going to get really trashed.
reminds me that i haven't had a holiday for ages (even though i took 6 weeks off in summer). i think i will take it easy this week.
there is another line in /etc/security/console.perms which has dri in it and this needs to be removed or it keeps setting the permissions back on the nvidia files. also there is something wrong with the driver that it doesn't copy the nvidia dev files into /etc/udev.
you would have thought someone at nvidia would have tested it worked before releasing it!
have now upgraded to FC3. it has changed quite smoothly. the main problem is reinstalling the nvidia driver. i have heard there is a community version of the nvidia driver which would make it ten times easier (also i should be using ndiswrapper for wireless instead of driverloader).
anyway, my glxgears does not work due to a permissions problem with the driver and now i can either log in as myself without 3d rendering, or log in as root with. this is quite a setback considering my career is programming 3d graphics
going to upgrade to FC3 today. already started and have a huge load of packages downloading. using yum to do it from this tutorial here.
has new kernel, new evolution and it looks as if gnome is upgraded too. exciting!
please lord do not let me be rendered computerless!
had to drive to mansfield yesterday to pick up my hard disk as the delivery guys wouldn't bring it over again. it had to be sent to graham's house as the company cards are registered there now and simply wouldn't deliver to mine on first order.
it is a bit on the chunky side and has a really nasty bright blue light on it that flickers. i wish there was some way to disable it.
i have already transferred a lot of crap off my computer and freed up about 25 gigs. i am sure my computer is running a bit faster, then again i did only have a few megs left on my drive.
crap expands to fill the space given to it...
it is brass monkeys today. the car doors were stuck shut when i tried to open them. thought the door handles were going to snap off! the view from my new house is really far over loads of houses. if i was an insulation salesman i could tell exactly which houses needed roof insulation from here. most of the houses have snow on but there are still one or two...
anyway, global warming seems like a good idea on a day like this!
after russell introduced me to badminton some weeks ago i have finally bought some racquets. this should save me a bob or two on racquet hire and now i can practice with sofia at david lloyd.
the racquets were so cheap though (£5 for two including three shuttlecocks). i would advise getting better equipment. the racquets are okay but the shuttlecocks are made of cork and if they get anywhere near the rim of the racquet they fly off at weird angles.
can be alright if it means the other person can't hit it though!
i really want an external hard drive to put all my data. every CD i have seems to break after five minutes especially with my evil son scratching them and playing frisbee.
i need one at least 250GB like this one hd. maybe use the company card....
the trouble with the external hard drive thing is that i can see myself loving having it, and keeping all my stuff there, and being able to plug it into other computers etc. but after a while i will get paranoid about backing up and need a second identical disk to copy everything on to. i will then need a program which compares the content of the two drives and just copies the changes for speed and i have not checked this out on linux yet (yes yes i know it would be easy on windows).
then again, who says my hard drive on my laptop might not fail anyway. i would still be up shit creek. actually what if the web server breaks down? that has all my cvs on it!! (note to self: buy new machine with raid disks)
we cannot let ourselves get worried about these things.
i should post when i have solved a problem as well as reporting the problems. after russell read my blog he got the idea that linux is hard work. well i choose to live on the cutting edge so i always have to put up with the fact that upgrades may cause errors. i do try and commit bugs to gnome etc. but linux is great, there are no problems with it on my laptop at the moment.
the thing is when people ask me - "what do you do when windows suddenly does something unexplainable and shit like it always does?" i say put linux on! it is more stable and i never have problems like that any more.
everything is the way i want it on my computer now
have moved into my new house with views over sherwood in nottingham. it is a modernish house (1973) and is really warm compared to my old house (pre 1900). oh yeah and not having to park my car on the road any more, i hated that! especially in the shithole i used to live in when people would beep at you because you were blocking their way!!! have a garage now too which has basically become a dumping ground for all my crap. need to fix it up with shelving etc. still it is warm and dry unlike my old damp cellar