The life and times of a saggy cloth cat
Archive for February 2009
Want to make Zattoo work on Kubuntu 0804? It’ll most likely fail silently, without spitting out any useful error information.
Some chopping up of ldd /usr/bin/zattoo_player output reveals that it’s useful to run sudo apt-get install dbus-x11, at which point zattoo_player will start working.
Spurred on by mrben and Elwell, my ambitions for this year include…
* Finish rebuilding the Land Rover
* Finish restoring the TR6
* Sort out the MythTV situation in the living room (lack of acceleration on the TV-Out port)
* Flesh out Asterisk to do more than just make and take calls, such as DND messages, engaged messages, presence alerts, etc
* Set things in motion to build a house in the countryside
* Be more focused on relevant projects
* Expand amateur radio skills and experience
I’ll add more as I think of them 
This a real brush…
It’s rated at 8500 RPM, but the grinder runs at 10,000RPM. Frighteningly fast, and slightly unwieldy due to the gyroscopic effect present.
On a related note, due to such machinery, the replacement bulkhead is almost clean now. A touch more here and there, and it will be painted with red oxide tomorrow. The spraypaint system will be here in a couple of days, so hopefully we can get the bulkhead painted and refitted before the Land Rover has to go away for the new chassis at the end of February.