Slacking
Friday, 30th July 1999
I want to know where all the steps in between not knowing what to do when
presented with "login:", and editing the diffs in source rpms for XFree86
by hand went.
Not intending to sound like a boring old fart or anything, but the time has
flown by.
Realisation
Tuesday, 29th June 1999
From reading ihug.general and nz.general I have acertained one simple fact:
Patrick Dunford is quite possibly the worlds stupidest person.
Thank you for your time.
Good riddance
Thursday, 17th June 1999
Ding Dong the DivX is Dead.
Which mailing list?
Wednesday, 16th June 1999
Extract from 3dfx.glide.linux
>>> Has someone build up XFree and Mesa 3.x for Riva TNT for RedHat Linux? I
>>> think nVidia has only source patches for XFree and OpenGL.
<snip>
>> Since this is a 3Dfx newsgroup - paid for by 3Dfx, you should
>> probably take this issue over to the Mesa mailing list.
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> How can I trust to anyone on this goup if you have sensorsip here?
>
> I can start up a 3dfx group here on the University News server, if you do
> not have free speech on this goup of the Big Brother.
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heh.
Taxan Uniscan
Tuesday, 25th May 1999
I re-soldered the joints on the yoke of an old monitor I've had since
pre-history ( 31.5khz fixed sync yeah! ). I feel kind of bad now, its been an
entertaining few years beating the crap out of it to try and get the red gun
to work.
User friendly
Monday, 24th May 1999
I tried to get windows working on this new machine I built, and failed.
Windows is too hard, it is _really_ sad that you can't just tell it there is
an IDE cdrom drive on hdc or whatever and/or get the error conditions from the
driver when it fails to init.
In their attempts to make it easy to install, they have made it impossible for
me.
Bootable mp3 cd
Friday, 7th May 1999
As promised here ( http://www.osoal.org.nz/log/usage_0599.html ) are the stats on the web server usage.
The link to the comments page was posted a little after 12pm on the morning of
the 1st, and within about 20 seconds the hits started coming in. I would expect
from the logs that not alot of people got any of the images I posted, but most
would have got the comments page cgi itself.
I have started an interesting quest to get Linux booting off an iso9660 cd.
With the simplest case, you can just burn one of the "Linux On A Floppy"
(LOAF) distributions onto the disk as an el torito formatted image, but that
hardly seems fun.
What I am proposing to do is get enough stuff together to be able to include a
boot image and possibly a small file system ( < 10mb ) with each of the mp3
cd's I burn. This would enable you too boot the cd on a machine ( >= ~486
DX4-120 ) with Windows or no disk at all, and play the mp3's on the cd.
In the tradition of such tiny distributions, you should also be able to browse
the web with it, telnet, irc, whatever.
The current versions of libc etc are huge, glibc 2.1 weighing in at a little
over 4mb, so like the LOAF style distributions it will have to be made from
bits pinched from an old slackware distribution or something similar.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Does anyone read this? Does anyone understand what the hell I'm going on about?
k, bye.
Only 33.6k
Saturday, 1st May 1999
As I write this, yak is being hammered by slashdot punters trying to get images of the Q3Test, I want to do it again, but with some bandwith, watching the logs scroll past with hits is just plain cool.
The logs will be available for public inspection to show what a modem link can handle when its over.
