Angus Thinks

Month: July 2005

  • Collections of Radioactive stuff

    I came across this site the other day when I was looking for information about radioactive fiestaware.

    The author collects radioactive artifacts

    [Link]

  • WordPress & this weblog

    I’ve finally upgraded to wp 1.5, plus the image authentication thing in the comments works again. 🙂

    I’ve also decided that the theme must be changed, so it may change in the next few days. (default for the moment though).

  • What the Orcs think of Multi-player

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2005-06-10&res=l

    From Penny-Arcade 🙂

  • SQLEditor 1.1 nearing release

    SQLEditor 1.1 is now approaching release. It seems to have taken much longer than expected, however it does have a number of interesting improvements.

    The most interesting improvement is that it can export directly to a database. This is still slightly experimental but pretty much works.

    There is also a new structure for connector lines, the layout algorithms for each type of line have been moved into separate classes, so new types could be added in the future.

    There is a new toolbar which allows for faster object creation.

    There are also lots and lots of bug fixes (including one in the SAX XML parsing code which was causing occasional but serious problems in load and save).

    I’ve also been working on the documentation, using docbook to make everything nice and multi-purpose.

    I’m really hoping that version 1.1 can be out by the middle of next week.

  • Debian Sarge

    I realized that I’d managed to update to Sarge (v 3.1) mostly without noticing. I should have pinned my packages to woody (3.0) but didn’t realize, which meant that I went through the update process without actually noticing. This led to a number of odd problems. In particular I hadn’t disabled a number of backports, which led to difficulties with apache, php, mysql and postgresql. This happened because the ports were set up to target woody (3.0) rather than Sarge (3.1).

    However I have now properly upgraded to Sarge on marilac. Hopefully this will be a suitably satisfactory release and will provide many hours of happy uptime. 🙂

  • The Lucky Despot Hotel and Casino

    The Lucky Despot Hotel and Casino was the name of an establishment in a story that I was reading recently. 🙂