The 4th series of 24 started tonight on Sky 1. It looks like being as good as the previous ones on the basis of the 2 episodes shown tonight.
This series has seen more advertising nonsense that the others. Why do Vodafone feel that people would want to see a specially crafted set of video [...]

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There has been a desire to add a bug tracker to BeClan for quite a while now. The im_kit project has gotten to a point where it would be useful, so a certain autralian keeps asking for one. Alongside that it’s a good thing to have anyway, just not something that has been high enough [...]

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Was in Dubai yesterday. They’re having yet another shopping festival (trying to sell stuff that you don’t need at prices you shouldn’t be paying) so it was busy when we went out for something to eat. Ended up in a sidewalk place having a bit of cake and a cuppa. Nothing unusual there. The place [...]

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I finally got round to adding the human verification code to the comments and since then life has been much more relaxing. No spamfest of daft comments linking to sites that don’t exist, no silly posts about drugs that don’t work, no links to sites that will take money from you… It’s been good. Only [...]

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Sky+ is a great system. It’s made watching TV almost bearable again. I don’t watch adverts these days. I skip past those really annoying sponsor’s breaks (while vowing that i will NEVER buy anything from any company that sponsors a TV programme in that way) and generally watch only what I want to. There is [...]

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In preperation for the talk in Feb at CodeCon and having finsihed the tests at work for another 6 months, I decided to try and look at using MagicPoint to start writing the slides. I’m anticipating this wil take a while and as it also means learning about MagicPoint starting now is possibly leaving it [...]

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Added a few more functions today to enable the main project using butter to be installable using “butter -install”. It now works, which is kind of cool.
The uninstall feature isn’t yet working and the work has thrown up a few other problems that need to be fixed, but they’re not huge issues and so shouldn’t [...]

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I don’t subscribe to PC pro anymore, haven’t in a long time, but they keep sending me emails to announce every release anyway. I haven’t stopped them as occasionally they have an interesting link in the mail (not often, but I’m lazy OK?).
So, it’s January. January - first month of the year. Why then [...]

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Well, butter is now capable of building a reasonably complex project and can handle a surprisingly large rnage of problems thrown against it. I’ve added the notion of named sections that can be run by either Rules or Templates presently. At present these are just the boring Before and After sections that allow you to [...]

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A little while ago I came across MPS- the Mail Preference Service. I’ve been registered with TPS (Telephone Preference Service) for a while now and it’s proved extremely sucessful in reducing the amount of sales calls I get at home. I hope that MPS will perform a similar service for mail. The arrival on my [...]

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I’m not the biggest fan of build systems. They’re a neccesary evil and the fact that yT were having so much difficulty with differing system (and so they felt a need to fork the code into their own private repo) isn’t a huge surprise.
Be tried to overcome this with a set of makefile-engines that could [...]

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I’ve been quite busy the last few days, but it looks like I’ve got to where I wanted to be, so I can relax again! Not back at work until Saturday so hopefully I should finish on Friday as I don’t see myself getting much coding done tomorrow as I’ve got a few things that [...]

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So, svn is an app I’m using more and more, but it can still catch you out!
I’ve been working on a CA that will allow us to use client certs for svn access control, so obviously part of that is that a need to get the certs working with mod_ssl and the auth module for [...]

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Spent a bit of today adding a survey to BeClan. At least I’m calling it a survey, but actually it’s an exercise to try and find out what people really think of BeOS. It’s very difficult to tell in detail what people think as they don’t very often articulate it clearly. Maybe this will help [...]

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I’m not sure that everyone realises, but you can join repositories together to form a consistent whole using svn quite easily. The following will hopefully explain a little clearer…
To get the current up to date “trunk” source code for httpd,

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk httpd

This gets the httpd 2 code, but we also need the apr and [...]

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The post I made a few days ago (yes THAT one) was, it turns out, based on true information. The information was, as seems to often happen, only one part of the story. It’s time to try and put the entire story together in one place as it has ramifications for the future.
yT are keeping [...]

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It’s become apparent that various things I’ve written have been taken out context, twisted and generally turned into something they’re not. It’s time to put that right.
I’m NOT (I’ll say it again - NOT) anti-Zeta. Never have been, never will be.
I hope yT and Zeta in particular do well. That’s not to say I’m [...]

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Apparently yT has private copies (repositories) of some “open source” projects. They seem to be (according to the story I heard) porting in changes made to the public repositories but not returning the favour. This sort of behaviour sucks. Do we really want to play this game?
Most people get involved in open source projects to [...]

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Well, last night was a lot of fun! Had a curry with Paul, Catherine and Charlotte, then drove down to Lambs Green for a few drinks with Den, some fireworks and enjoyable conversation. Got to bed about 2am nicely merry
So, in case you’re not sick of hearing it already, Happy New Year!
Went to [...]

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