Motorcycles, computers and beer
I placed an order with Amazon today, and applied a gift voucher to it. When I added the voucher, I was quite amazed by the saving it offered:
I had no idea I’d received a 9 billion pound voucher! Unfortunately, it subsequently changed to the correct figure of £20, otherwise I’d have added all of Amazon to my shopping basket 
I’m setting up a PC for my future father-in-law right now. I’m avoiding installing Windows as I hate dealing with it. I’m happy to help him to get to grips with using the machine and doing whatever he wants with it, but not so happy with having to provide Windows support (after all, I don’t use Windows, so I can hardly call myself an expert at it).
So, I needed a Linux distro that’s clean and simple that he should be able to just get on with. My friend Tony recommended PCLinuxOS as a suitable distro, so I thought I’d give it a spin. It boots as a live CD incredibly easily, auto-detecting everything. Once at a KDE desktop, it’s a usable system already. If you want to actually install to the HDD, just double-click the install icon on the desktop (yes, it has KDE set to require double-click for icons; no doubt useful to save confusing people moving over from Windows, but left me wondering why the hell it wasn’t doing anything). The process is simple, and the ability to sit here with a working system and a copy of Firefox to keep me amused whilst the installation progresses is actually quite cute
When we moved in to our new house back in April, I contacted Three Valleys Water and gave them the reading on our water meter, and had the billing sorted out etc. One of our neighbours told me that TVW had buggered up and were reading *our* meter and billing them for it - I’ve now found out that they’ve made another mistake.
Just tried to make a post on WebHostingTalk, and was met with the error "You need five posts before being able to use any of this board’s vB code features. Including smilies and linking to URLs."
Gee, great idea. So I can’t help somebody by providing URLs to useful documentation, until I’ve spammed the forum with 5 worthless posts? That strikes me as really sensible - not.
UK2 asks "What scripts have you found most useful during the last year?"
Ditlev from UK2 is trying to put together a list of the most popular scripts & web apps and asks for feedback on your favourites - whether it’s WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, SquirrelMail or any of the thousands of scripts out there, go and cast your vote
Updated my DNS propagation tracker, so that you can specify a set of nameservers to query rather than using a random set, or enter a domain to query the nameservers listed for that domain (useful if you want to check that all nameservers for your domain are giving the same answer).
Here it is: DNS propagation tracker
Okay, I’ve moved my blog to a new server, and upgraded too - I’m now running Wordpress checked out from WP’s Subversion trunk, so I’ll be staying up to date with the bleeding edge of WP. Hopefully there won’t be too much breakage each time I update
If you notice anything not working right, please let me know in the comments, or mail me direct (davidp AT preshweb DOT co DOT uk).
This lion was raised by humans and then released into the African wild. See how both the “parents” and the lion react when they see each other for the first time after being separated for an entire year…
Amazing stuff. Found this via Daniel Miessler’s blog.
Recently I’ve received a number of spams where it looks like the spammer hasn’t set up their spamming tool properly, containing just placeholders:
06/03/2007 (13:53 GMT +03:00)
1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Date: %CURRENT_DATE_TIME%MESSAGE_BODY
C’mon, if you’re going to spam a message to thousands of people, at least test it first!
For ages I’ve found Firefox on Linux very, very slow when I go to Digg. It takes a while to load the page, and scrolling is horrible.
Finally found a solution to the problem.
Continue reading ‘Firefox slowness rendering digg.com - fixed’
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