It’s time, and Ofcom are beginning to enforce the latest revision to General Condition 4, whereupon VoIP providers must, where technically feasible, provide location information for their VoIP users. In order to aid emergency services, they will transmit details of your fixed line location to the recipient when you make an emergency call.

Obviously this is quite an important thing, and not something you want to get wrong. So take a few moments now to ensure that the details held by your VoIP provider are the correct details.

This is why women should not be left to do electrical work

Sadly we’re having to migrate to Track-It at work, and muggins here has been tasked with ensuring the agent can deploy nicely. After some initial crazyness with manual installs, or login script launched installs, I managed to wrap it into an MSI. Details can be found over here.

Well, it’s hit a little obstacle in the project timeline. After preparing the Land Rover for the upcoming chassis swap by Sundown Farm, we called them up to book a time. Earliest time available is February 2009

In the meantime, work will continue on the TR6, and I’ll try and spend some time replacing the seatbox and floor panels on the Land Rover.

bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ du -sh
8.1G .
bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ du -sh Log/
8.0G Log/
bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ cd; rm -rf ~/.beagle/
bagpuss@mine:~ $

What have you got to say for yourself? Hmmm? This is on Ubuntu Hardy, which is supposed to be ’stable’ software. Filling up ~ with your logs doesn’t instill a sense of stability…

Stage 1 of Many was completed tonight. The Land Rover finally had various items removed before it gets sent off to some nice people who are going to replace the chassis on it. It’s been a long time coming, but as the photographs show, it’s desperately needed.

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As Steve points out, Ofcom have recently released their study on the potential future of the UK broadband network using the existing copper telephone network.

There’s two main methods of DSL delivery to end users. One is to have the DSL modems hiding in the local exchange, and the other is to have the modems stashed inside the cabinets on the streets. The latter is similar to the cable network, and hence why Virgin are touting their ‘fibre’ network. It’s really just fibre to the cabinet, and then coax to the home.

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It would appear that Google has decided that their map data for the Isle of Man isn’t good enough, and now allow everyone to edit it through their MapMaker system. Several things spring to mind… firstly that OpenStreetmap has great coverage of the island, and secondly, why doesn’t Google want to re-use the OSM data? It’s already freely available under Creative Commons licensing. I fail to understand their method of thinking here.

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…

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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