Archive for February, 2008

Tips for those giving technical talks

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

I’m currently thoroughly enjoying FOSDEM, as I have all the other times I’ve been. It’s great that these people have made the time to come and give talks for free, so I hope I don’t sound ungrateful when I make these observations.
When giving a technical talk:

make sure you have actually read your material! […]

New-look lug.org.uk launched: some thoughts for its future

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

After a tremendous effort by a few of the other admins and volunteers, the new-look lug.org.uk has been launched.

I’m not going to go into massive detail as plenty of other blog posts have been written about this already, and I wasn’t one of the admins doing much work on it. However I […]

Off to FOSDEM

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

I’m off to FOSDEM in Brussels tomorrow, in the yearly pilgrimage with the Hampshire LUG lot. If you’re also there and I haven’t made it obvious that I don’t want to talk to you, feel free to say hi!

Mutt pager/index view, and colour scheme

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

I had thought that my use of mutt was completely ordinary, but after pasting a screenshot of it:

into IRC for unrelated reasons, a number of people asked how I set it up like that. The answer is I read the manual!
But for those not interested in reading the manual, the image is of the […]

Possible hardware issue with Tyan S3970 motherboard

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Dear Lazyweb,
You will probably want to skip this if you have no knowledge of server motherboards and RAM and/or no interest in helping me.
I have a new server based on a Tyan S3970 motherboard with four DIMMs. It was assembled by the supplier and subjected to a burn-in test. It seems however that […]

Links for 2008-02-02

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Gameboy bricks
“Unforseen events”

And how are you

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Text message from a relative:
hi andrew need to ask you a question when we open the laptop the screen goes all funny with lots of coloured line all over it any clues what up with it. And how are you

R. E. Perot, get gold card soul / My joy of life is on a roll

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I thought I’d treat myself to some toys.
With FOSDEM and other events fast approaching I decided I should buy myself a new compact camera as the Konica DiMAGE I have now is just too big to carry around all the time.
I’m no camera expert and certainly not a very good photographer so I don’t need […]