Diary: October 2001

Fluffy the Pointless Forking Server

Fluffy v1.1 has now been released. I don't see me doing any more to it. The SIGHUP bug has been fixed (for anyone interested, the perl 'exec' command blocks SIGHUP, you need to use POSIX to unblock it, dead easy really), it's been tidied up a lot, and I've added a couple of things.

Also moved the downloads section to radiac.net from guides.radiac.net. Made more sense. You can find fluffy1.1.zip in there.

Now to start on Nevil the Pointless Non-forking Server... grr, I need to get out more...

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Nevil and Cletus

I've *nearly* finished Nevil and Cletus.

Nevil the Pointless Non-forking Server.. well, what can I say. Cletus the Non-forking Chatroom would be a pretty good base for anyone wanting to write a perl-based talker/mud.

I *really* need to get out more.

Just had a very nice evening of mild cocktails and spiked juice. Photos in the photos section soon...

And I've now been here for 2 weeks. That's scary.

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Cooking

Having been thrown in at the deep end of the cooking world, and having had a bit of a struggle this past couple of weeks, I thought I would share my discoveries in the form of a guide to cooking.

You can read it here

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Stuff

Well, quite a bit of stuff has been happening. And arriving.

I've finished a pretty good search engine for the school website, and (hopefully) almost finished the virtual tour...

I've had some lectures, we've even done some work *gasp*!

And I've ordered 3 t-shirts ('BOFH' from theregister.co.uk, 'Will work for bandwidth :)' and 'Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script' from thinkgeek.com), a mug ('WTF?' from thinkgeek.com), 8 posters (pretty varied, stickitonyourwall.com), 2 dvds from play247, and a 19" Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451 from dabs ...

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Stuff

Well, sorry it's been a while... quite a bit has happened recently.

Not least my monitor has arrived!

Nice 19" CRT - Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451.

However, carrying it (it's very very heavy) from the mail place to our building for 60 long seconds, then up 10 flights of stairs wasn't fun.

Nor was opening it, setting it up, turning it on and noticing a deep scratch at the bottom, and realising I'd have to take it somewhere else, post it back to Dabs, and carry another one up.

Ho hum. Life just gets better and ...

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