Published by kyle on 18 Jul 2008
Having had the misfortune to be editing the partition table of one of our Oracle servers, I discovered that Grub 0.97 (the SLES SP1 variety) doesn’t play well with DL380 Smart Array Controllers. The magic auto detection that we’ve all grown to know and love just… it just doesn’t. Here’s how to regain that Grub magic…
Published by kyle on 15 Jul 2008
Well, not quite. I just spotted that my favourite bit of work, Anderston was featured as an image of the week on the wiki. Admittedly it was in relation to OpenStreetbugs, but it’s a bug I filed as a reminder that’s the highlight.
My claim to fame at last :-p
Published by kyle on 15 Jul 2008
It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me…
Take one OpenMoko phone, a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a location reporting service that’s easy on the battery and mostly precise in urban areas. If your area isn’t covered by CellDB, then run around with the OpenMoko GPS reciever online for a while to report celltower locations, and you’re sorted.
Use all of the above to create services like Socialight, location based Twittering, rough geotagging for photos (courtesy of Flickr and FireEagle [both Yahoo companies]) , pre-emptive OSM tile downloads, Asterisk routing - you could even implement ex-girlfriend logic to it all, if she were to have a similar device 
Well, I’m sure someone has thought of this already, but I thought I would commit ideas to storage just in case. Once my FreeRunner arrives, I know what I’ll be working on
Published by kyle on 23 Jun 2008
You don’t mention it until it’s too late. It’s one of those things that you may think to yourself, but never reveal it until after the event. It takes a special person to battle their way through cancer and a variety of illnesses, and still have a positive outlook on life. Still be able to be the frighteningly clever, funny and positive person, and still find time to idle on IRC and let us know how he’s doing in the hospital.
Sadly, however, Simon lost the battle in his sleep on Saturday night. He will be missed, part of the life and soul of #linux, one of the bright lights in the Glasogw Linux social fabric, an enthusiastic photographer, and most of all, our friend. You’ll be missed Morner. Sleep well.
Published by kyle on 18 Mar 2008
It’s sad news all round, with the death of Captain Birds Eye, and Arthur C Clarke. The Captain being a childhood memory of many people around my age, and Clarke being an author I am massively interested in. After getting involved in his works through the ubiquitous 2001: A Space Odyssey, I’ve managed work my way through a large amount of his other works, including the prelude to his first book, Childhoods End, the short story Guardian Angel.
His influence will go on, whether in the very real world of science and the satellite TV we all use every day, or the fictional world portrayed in his writings.
John Hewer… Arthur C Clarke… So long, and thanks for all the fish
Published by kyle on 21 Feb 2008
Looks like someone has taken design classes from Apple, and failed. It is, however, still rather dinky and shiny. Now, if only Vodafone would activate them before they send them out to us, like they used to.
Published by kyle on 05 Feb 2008
It had to be done KDE4 on Windows, in VMWare on Linux…
Published by kyle on 26 Jan 2008
For a while now, my SGI O2 has languished in the cupboard after being diagnosed with an unknown fault. I decided to dig it out again and have a quick look at it. Powering it up seemed successful, and I got the audio chime but no display. A quick bit of googling suggested that when no keyboard is attached, it will automagically redirect all output to the serial console. Connecting a standard ps2 keyboard cured all my woes
Next task will be to get the hard drive out and connected to another machine so I can set the root password to something I know.
Published by kyle on 17 Oct 2007
Well, first the Nokia 770 tablet was being sold at cut rates in favour of the new 800. I was sorely tempted to get one of the £99 770s as a toy, but just couldn’t justify it to myself (or Charlotte for that matter). The proverbial cat is now out the bag, and Nokia have just announced the release of the new N810. Now I have to ask myself if I can justify a cheap N800
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