Posts by neuro

London takes an impressive first step towards a world of pervasive urban wifi networking: London's Soho to get blanket 802.11 cover for voice, data , from el reg. Hat tip to paul .

If anyone's interested, I messed up trying to upgrade the memory on the Vaio , and I now have two spare PC133 144-pin SODIMMs up for auction on eBay: they are a 192MB SODIMM and 256MB SODIMM [update: the 256MB one sold on the 28th] — both gave the Vaio palpitations. Feel free to bid […]

RouterGod Interview Series: Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf On Policy Based Routing

Inhabitants of fark successfully infiltrate the soft underbelly of cnn.com , and find some test obits for people who hadn't died yet . The BBC did the same thing a couple of years ago and swiftly pulled the blatantly not-for-production pages, and CNN did the same thing here, pulling the pages about 20 minutes after […]

Further proof positive that the coolest shit comes from Japan — plush Star Wars toys . The cute wee fella on the right is also joined by a plush Yoda and plush Wicket (the Ewok who Princess Leia seems to enjoy feeding and generally fiddling with in Jedi). These things are over a foot tall, […]

After finding out I couldn't login to my Movable Type admin interface to add stuff to this blog, then reading this and this , then downloading this from here , then unpacking the tarball into a new subdirectory, cd 'ing into the dist subdirectory (in my case, /tmp/db-4.1.25/dist ), then make and then cd 'ing […]

A few late decisions at the tail end of last week saw me spending Saturday and Sunday all over the shop, but in a good way :) Saturday 12th As usual for us , the decision to go on a "picnic" (I use the term loosely) was made on Thursday, with the actual location decided […]

From Saturday's Grauniad : The much-mocked gold taps in Saddam's palaces were not fitted by Iraqis but a plumber from Wakefield. Brian Greenwood, 71, installed most of them in the late 1980s. When Saddam spoke to him, it was to compliment him in Arabic: "That's good, my friend."

From BBC News, " Concorde grounded for good ". *blub* Air France and BA are going to simultaneously withdraw their Concorde fleets, probably in October after the summer season. The planes will go through a set of special events and then go off to museums. Definitely the end of an era of flight, and what […]