Wipeout 2097 was always one of my favorite games on the original Playstation. Now that Studio Liverpool have produced a HD version, I’m addicted all over again.

I’ve been having fun with CameraBag (iTunes App Store link). This was a display in the window of a shop in Covent Garden.

I’ve had Darth for over a year now. Finally found a reasonably priced Luke. Han and Boba Fet next I feel 🙂

I’m really enjoying being God in Spore (Broken link http://www.spore.com/) at the moment, I think I’ve managed to convince the game that none of my creatures are every going to be friendly and thus it has labeled me as a predator. Oh well there is hope for me on another planet maybe 🙂

There is an update to this post, for the most recent be sure to check here.

Every so often I need a copy of one or all of these on a new machine. I tend to normally use RPM based distros and always have issues trying to find RPMS of these packages. As a result I’ve packaged them up and put them in my svn repo.

Feel free to checkout that directory, it includes a readme of how to build them for a system I’ve yet to need them on. replace the fc7 or el5 with something appropriate for your distribution.

Direct download links:

Redhat/Centos 5:

• daemontools version 0.76
• djbdns version 1.05
• ucspi-tcp version 0.88

Fedora 7:

• daemontools version 0.76
• djbdns version 1.05
• ucspi-tcp version 0.88

Update: This post still links to a few RPMs, but I have an updated post here, which has far more.

I’ve just had to struggle with the hex ip addresses which dnscache logs, after a bit of searching I found some nice notes about the log format here thanks to Rob Mayoff.

Finally I found this (Broken link http://www.artfiles.org/qmail.org/dnscache-log.pl) handy perl script.

We use a corporate version of MSN messenger called Microsoft Office Communicator.

Somebody recently left the company, as a result I thought I would delete him from my contacts in Communicator. I right-clicked his name in Communicator and selected ‘delete this contact’. Communicator then crashed. Restarting Communicator fixed the problem and I successfully deleted him this time.

Cut to 10 minutes later when I switch to Outlook to read my mail.

Outlook is displaying my folder list down the left hand side as normal but where the inbox listing and reading preview is I see a large message:

‘Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 has not closed the file …… properly…’

So I click click the silly office icon and select exit.

Restarting outlook shows the same dumb message.

So I quit Outlook again and search for any sign of it running. No minimised windows on the start bar at the bottom. Nothing amongst the seemingly endless list of icons in the system tray. Nowt.

This is where a normal user presumably rings support. Knowing a little more about computers I brought up task manager and started searching for something Outlook related. There it is OUTLOOK.EXE sitting there happily running with no visible UI elements for the user to interact with.

Killing this and restarting Outlook obviously fixed the problem. Dumb.

Why do I care that Communicator broke outlook

Why do I need to know that there are hidden processes running in the background of this GUI operating system.

Why do I need to know how to kill those processes.

Idiocy.

While on the ferry from Portsmouth to Fishbourne I had the pleasure of watching the sun go down across the Solent.

One of our suppliers invited a few of us out for a Karting evening. Much fun. Although some aches this morning!

Catching up on a back log of photographs. A few weeks ago we went down to see some relatives in Windsor.