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.
Archive for November 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.
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 
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.
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-15
- Heading to Bunker #
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Twitter Updates for 2007-11-09
- In Chinaskis for the FAWP #
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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.
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-04
- In town… Shopping
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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…
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.
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-01
- How to get the Windows Installer Service to start in Safe Mode – http://tinyurl.com/yzojek #
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