Category: Geek

Grub on a DL380

July 18, 2008 - Computers , Geek , Linux , Work - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

Infamy!

July 15, 2008 - Geek , Internet , Openstreetmap - by admin - 1 Comment

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

An Idea

July 15, 2008 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Internet , Linux , Openstreetmap , Twitter , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

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,Â 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 […]

Courage

June 23, 2008 - Friends , Geek , Life , Scotlug - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

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May 25, 2008 - Geek - by admin - No Comments