Archive for November 1st, 2005

Posted on November 1, 2005 - by jono

Fun and games

Today the PVR-350 and the channel switcher box arrived. This evening I had a crack at getting them working and the channel box works and the PVR-350 is nearly finished. I just need an S-Video lead before I can complete the setup. I will pick one up tomorrow.

Tuesday I am giving a talk at an IBM Migration Seminar at Old Trafford in Manchester. I am not listed on the schedule as it was a recent addition, but I am looking forward to running my latest talk. This one is about the choices that need to be made when migrating to Linux and how OpenAdvantage help with this. I am gonna work the slides tomorrow and then head up tomorrow night for a chinese and a few pints with the IBM chaps and Jon Masters.

Late last night I hacked on the new site and all is working out well. Still plenty to fix, and a few irksome array oddities that are going on, but it is beginning to hang together quite nicely.

LUGRadio Season 3 kicked off today to some fanfare by the community, and it seems to have been pretty well received. We shifted a stack of episodes and the new server seemed to handle it pretty well for the main website, but not for audio uploads. Apache is not hugely suited to lots and lots of large uploads, so we plan on shifting it over to thttpd again. We record Season 3 Episode 2 on Wednesday and I am really looking forward to it. We have a corker of a segment brewing. Oh, and check out the map now. Wow!

Tonight I finally got some photos online from our holiday and the fancy dress party. Here are few choice cuts – lets kick off with the holiday. Like the hat?:

You know, I love ducks, and at the Magic Kingdom, we found some friendly ducks on a fake island:

Yep, I love ducks…

Alas, not many photos other ducks it seems. Then again, there are loads of Florida photos elsewhere on the net. We did see my mum and dad while over there. Don’t you think my dad looks like Ned Flanders?:

OK, now on to the fancy dress party. I spent ages on my make-up and costume to transform into a maniac bloodthirsty doctor. Just look at the poor victims of my slaughter: