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My linux machine is nearly ready to swap places and go on the network; samba, apache, ftpd and half-life are running at the moment. I also have X and KDE running on the machine, with MPlayer successfully playing DVDs and DivXs (not that I have any of the latter, of course).

Anyway, I'm in the process of tidying up USML a bit. Finishing off the main features I have planned, so this and the Tonbridge School codebases can finally sit still while I develop a more generic USML for public release...

Oh well, back to the code...

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House hunting

House hunting sucks. This morning we got a call saying that the house we wanted to see had gone. So we called around and went to somewhere else, but we went the wrong way down the road and it was cold and uphill on the way back and aaaargh. And when we got there the house wasn't particularly great either. *Sigh*

On the plus side, I've got debian installed, woody installed, 2.4.17 compiled, and ssh, x, sound, apache installed and working. Now for samba!

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Yay

This evening we went to the cinema to see Monsters Inc. Funny film :)

Am also getting addicted to Starbucks' hot chocolate and their shakey stuff - I've probably shaken at least a jar and a half of chocolate powder over the cream in this week alone...

Oh, and I accidentally deleted something on my linux machine that I shouldn't have. /etc/X11. Reinstalled Debian today, and am now back where I was this morning, plus a driver.

Have also added a cron job to update the favicon images on the links page every day at midnight GMT. Well, I ...

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New computer

Woo, I have built my computer. Built it a couple of days ago, actually, just been too busy to come on here and post about it :p

You can see some more photos of it here. Oooh, isn't it lovely.

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