Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
I bought a trout today. I walked past the fish counter and it looked at me with its staring eye. So I bought it. But I do not know how to cook trout, so I gave it away.
Elections are boring. I should have stood, that would have made it better.
So, I've been waiting in for a parcel to be delivered. I got up super-early (9am), even though they usually don't arrive until about 11. So anyway, here I am at 1.30 wondering how it's doing, so I go to parcelfarce.com and type in my consignment number. 'Delivered', it says. 'Left as arranged', it says. At 8.22, it says. I go downstairs, it's sitting on the doorstep.
Oh well.
I've been using samba with many windows machines for many years and never had this problem before, and google has no record of it happening anywhere. So either I'm incredibly stupid or unlucky, I'm not sure which.
I'm running Debian with a backported 2.6 kernel and samba 3, and connecting to it from a windows 2000 machine, all working fine. After my hard drive failure and subsequent reinstallation of w2k, I wanted my linux share to appear as a networked drive in windows as it did before, so I went to 'map network drive', typed ...
Damnit, why didn't anyone tell me about this M4 protest in time for me to join in?
In addition to my 7000+ e-mail spams a day, I have now started collecting comment spam. They only ever seem to spam the one diary entry though. Guess I should sort out some kind of anti-spam thing, but I'm only on a couple a day at the moment. I'll sort something out when I get up to triple figures.