Archive for November, 2007

Published by kyle on 26 Nov 2007

Glasgow Openstreetmap

For those that may find this sort of thing useful, I’ve started keeping a daily dump of the Glasgow area of the Openstreetmap database around here. Also in the OSM directory will be a weekly dump of the Glasgow area.

Published by kyle on 26 Nov 2007

Hadoop

A while back I mentioned Hadoop as The Next Big Thing. Looks like demand has been high in the intervening months, and the Yahoo Developer Network has recently announced a new blog all about Hadoop. An open source Mapreduce implementation with a scalable, clustered and highly redundant storage system? Yes please… Now you can keep up to date with your favourite RSS reader.

Published by kyle on 25 Nov 2007

TR6 Exhaust

Finally got the exhaust of the TR6 fixed. A bit of a hassle it was, as the corrosion had rusted a hole in around one of the rear mounts. The whole rear section had to be cut off, done a week or so ago by Gordon, and then over the course of a few nights I trimmed off the bad metal and welded in a patch. Today was the big day as the exhaust was mounted back on, this time using a home made connector, and sealed up with Gun Gum and a Gun Gum bandage around the joint. After half an hour of idling, we had a toasty warm exhaust with no holes in it. Job done :-)

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Published by kyle on 21 Nov 2007

Zenworks Unattended Windows Upgrade

I’d been looking at how to upgrade our Windows 2000 machines to XP at work recently, without losing all the data on them. We would normally just reimage them, and put up with the lost data, but that seemed awfully heavy handed. Nobody on the web seemed to have detailed how to do it with Zenworks, so I came up with my own method. In the process of writing it up for our wiki, I put on the web for others to use as a resource should they need it.

Published by on 15 Nov 2007

Twitter Updates for 2007-11-15

  • Heading to Bunker #

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Published by on 09 Nov 2007

Twitter Updates for 2007-11-09

  • In Chinaskis for the FAWP #

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Published by kyle on 08 Nov 2007

Free Sofa

Free sofa for anyone that is interested. First come first served. Pickup from Yoker. Obscenely large SGI monitor not part of the deal.

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Published by on 04 Nov 2007

Twitter Updates for 2007-11-04

  • In town… Shopping :-( #

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Published by kyle on 04 Nov 2007

Deforming a character?

During my evening ramble down the overgrown alleyway of what we call the information superhighway, I stumbled across Elliott Backs commentary on the ridiculousness of some of the suggestions on Ask.com.

Curious, I carefully massaged the keybaord in such a manner that would provide a suggestion similar to the ones encountered prior. The end result was slightly disturbing…

Sue for deformation

Should I want my character deformed then I know where to go. To be honest, I suspect it’s illegal in many civilised parts of the world. In others, most likely just frowned upon. Maybe you can get ointments for such an ailment, but frankly I’d rather not try to find out.

Published by on 01 Nov 2007

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