carfax

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been playing with writing an operating system.

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What’s this about?

[Castle Carfax.

[Castle Carfax.

Note: this tale was posted in response to the story of Cuttleson and its subsequent demolition.

[The scene: Castle Carfax.

Once upon a time, there was a magical kingdom called btrfs, with many CoWs in it.

Hadoop’s MapReduce subsystem runs tasks, where each task may be composed of one or more jobs.

[A lecture theatre.

[Note nailed to the sally port of Castle Carfax] Message to couriers: Please ring and wait for up to 10 minutes, to give Igor enough time to hack his way back out of the conservatory.

[The Small Experiment Hall, Castle Carfax.

[Castle Carfax.

Igor!

Last night, I went down to Cow Lane, not far from where I live, to see the first phase of the new rail bridges put in place.

On Tuesday, I took delivery of the first set of parts for my RepRap from the local user group.

Here’s the email I sent to the btrfs mailing list a few moments ago: Over the last few weeks, I’ve been playing with a foolish idea, mostly triggered by a cluster of people being confused by btrfs’s free space reporting (df vs btrfs fi df vs btrfs fi show…

The usage display shows, graphically, what space has been allocated and used.

A graphical user interface for managing btrfs filesystems.

I’ve just got my hands on another arts and humanities data set.

Egregium is a first-person shooter, harking back to the days of the 8-bit micro.

… last seen being used by the person we paid to build our database.

One of the major problems with building a distributed system is that it’s distributed.

I took a good deep look at one of the datasets I’m meant to be linking up today.

Last night, I went to the Farnham Beerex — one of the country’s longest-running beer festivals.

Was there some purpose to this minor irritation?

I’m currently at this year’s dev8D.

When we started this project many moons ago, we started with 10 identified repositories that we wanted to work with.

Calliope is a video recorder for DVB systems.

Ever since I started playing with digital TV on my computer(s) 5-6 years ago, I’ve been intermittently messing around with the idea of writing a video recorder.

After a project meeting today, it was suggested that I keep a note of all of the “interesting” issues that I encounter with the various data repositories I encounter on the project.

After some struggling over the last couple of days to sort out tag-based blog aggregator filtering in Drupal, here’s how I did it, with the extra patches and sub-modules I needed to make it work.

… the sound of blog filtering through the percolator.

I’m playing with Drupal, to see how I can aggregate RSS news items with particular tag keywords from several sources into a single place.

When I agreed to review this book, through the auspices of HantsLUG, I had almost no experience of using Git.

Ontomedia is an academic project to develop ontologies and tools for describing media and narratives using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL.

From our reporter in the Department of Vague Stuff.

I’ve recently re-encoded a whole load of MPEG2 video I’ve got into MPEG4 (using H.264).

I export a bunch of directories over NFS.

… your compiler starts rejecting perfectly valid C++ like this: Of course, javac doesn’t like that very much.

After a couple of delays, my replacement Edge10 DAS 501t has arrived.

On several of my machines, I’ve moved over to using xfce4-terminal instead of xterm.

This morning, I took delivery of an Edge10 DAS 501t storage box.

The King William’s College Quiz is out.

† For me, that’s an aesthetic bonus, both from the appearance of the application, and from the point of view that it’s not massively reinventing the wheel.

Four months after I got my job at Reading University, I’ve finally found somewhere to live in Reading, bought it, and moved in.

I’ve just had to generate a new self-signed X.509 certificate for an internal website at work, and I thought I’d generate a certificate with multiple names, so we can refer to it as “www.foo.org”, and “foo.org”, and “machine.foo.org”, and all of the other…

I found this site the other day: http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/index.html.

I’ve been trying to work out how to get a copy of Windows XP to run in a VM at work – not that I actually want one as such, but it’s useful to have for those Word documents that OpenOffice won’t open, and for the occasional website that requires IE.