Posted by Ceri Davies
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:57:00 GMT
While Ken, Jun and I were still working on the text of the announcement for the logo contest, someone found the draft and spilt their guts.
It’s actually shocked me to find this all over the Intarweb within the hour, even to the point where there is a petition against getting rid of the Beastie (which is not planned) which has received over 450 signatures while I’ve been collecting URIs for this post. The current count is 590 signatures.
Obviously, Slashdot have posted an ”article” on the subject, and the denizens thereof are being their usual witty selves with links to a picture of Ceren, etc.. I’ll be voting for adamw’s original, I think:
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:12:00 GMT
When I mentioned that people would get over-excited at the Welsh victory over the English, I really didn’t anticipate this level of excitement. It’s not as if we Welsh don’t get made to look stupid enough already, what with all the idiots.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:22:00 GMT
Mostly for my own benefit, here is a list of the (non-base) applications I’ve found most useful on the Mac this week, along with where to get them.
Virtue: Virtual Desktop manager for MacOS X (which I’m a little disappointed isn’t standard, but then it may be confusing for Gran). I’ve made a little .mov format film of it working (QuickTime is not the POS that it is on Windows either)
GPGMail: A dirty hack to get GPG integrated into Apple’s Mail.app
Believe it or not, iTunes. I don’t even have an iPod, and this still outshines everything similar
Firefox. Whatever.
Not a long list, but it hasn’t been a week yet.
I’ve been through a huge amount of shit too; it’s good to know that the spirit of Open Source is not dead. The nice thing about MacOS X seems to be that you can put a GUI round anything (let’s say chown(8), for example) and release it as ShareWare. This time next year, we’ll all be millionaires!
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:18:00 GMT
It was messy and scrappy, but we stuffed the Saes for the first time in twelve years. Whilst this is obviously great news, it will inevitably lead to everyone (on the TV at least) suggesting that Welsh rugby is at the crest of a new wave of greatness, only to be proven wrong when we lose against Italy or Ireland. Mark my words.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:02:00 GMT
Have been listening to the new Lemon Jelly album pretty much non-stop for the last two days. It’s doing wonders for my general mood and I’m enjoying it, but I can’t help thinking that it does sound a bit like just another Ministry of Sound compilation. My final word will probably come when I see them on tour next month.
My Mac mini arrived today as well, and it’s enough to say that I’m pretty much sold. I’ve finally found a mailer that isn’t Mutt that looks vaguely useful, and it’s got a GUI too (so no more questions from brian and paul about whether I’ve ever heard of X Window). Xcode looks decent enough, and the other applications are eminently usable. There should be an X server on here somewhere, so I can continue to do everything from this one machine. Oh, and DVD playback works.
Bring on the accusations of homosexuality.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:01:00 GMT
Having finally agreed with Bill Palmer on something - not buying a G4 powerbook - Apple have pulled out the big guns.
I’m still not getting one, but I’m sorely tempted; with the 7% discount I get from work, the prices are almost too tempting. Luckily for me, I still can’t afford them - sorry Apple.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:16:00 GMT
Comment spamming attempts started rolling in at a ridiculous rate today - guess that means that this site has established some kind of presence ;-)
Stef’s mother is visiting this week, and after my 3.625 years with Stef the parents are finally going to meet each other later this week. I’m not worried about this at all, but with my father’s guttural Welsh accent, Stef and her mother’s perpetual state of German-ness, and the fact that sometimes I cannot understand what my father is saying, this could be interesting.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:40:00 GMT
I downloaded the ”Mac OS X for UNIX users Technology Brief” from the UNIX developer section of Apple’s site, as I’ve ordered a Mac mini and wanted to work out how it will fit into the ”infrastructure” here.
I was a bit annoyed to discover that it states on Page 3 that FreeBSD is “developed at the University of California, Berkeley”. Note passed to Apple via the contact link; let’s see what happens.
Update: January 18th, 2005
Apple responded and have “forwarded this information to the appropriate team for their review”.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:22:00 GMT
I was watching the National Geographic channel and a program called “Killer Leopards” was showing. It was about the Indian Leopard, its endangerment and the problems being experienced with the leopards apparently stalking and killing villages and farmers.
During this program they showed a number of photographs of hunters, who had taken it upon themselves to kill the troublesome leopards, with their kills. Whilst I’m not naive enough to consider myself able to comment on whether this is right or not (after all, the program was only an hour long), it did make me wonder: hunting used to be a rite of passage into adulthood, and was generally regarded as a sign of manhood because it was fucking difficult and you had to be just a little bit rock hard.
Now, you only have to be in the blind by 4pm, and that just is wrong.
If proof were needed, check it out. Even a bad drawing of some dude spearing a deer is more hardcore than the loser on the right:
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