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Stage 2

August 31, 2008 - Cars , TR6 , Vehicles - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

Dear Beagle

August 27, 2008 - Linux , Things that annoy Kyle - by admin - 4 Comments

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 […]

Stage 1

August 26, 2008 - Cars , Life , Vehicles - by admin - No Comments

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.

100Mb/sec to 95.5% of the country?

August 18, 2008 - Internet , Technology , United Kingdom - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

Isle of Man

August 17, 2008 - Internet , Openstreetmap , United Kingdom , Web - by admin - 3 Comments

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 […]