Monthly Archives: February 2006

Irssi Proxy. Easy.

February 21, 2006

This evening I’ve set up irssi‘s proxy module, following some tips from Dave2 in #lugradio and http://www.garion.org/irssi/irssi-proxy.php. It’s as easy as: /load proxy /set irssiproxy_password = something /set irssiproxy_ports Blitzed=6667 Freenode=6668 The networks have to be defined already in ~/.irssi/config. The ports specified are the ports that client systems use to connect to the proxy, [...]

Tux Logo for TomTom GO 300 Splash Screen

February 17, 2006

I was a very lucky boy at Christmas and was given a TomTom GO 300. I think it’s a cracking piece of kit with an impressively thought-out interface. These things run embedded Linux and the SD card in them appears as mass storage devices via a USB cable. I was poking around the contents of [...]

Blast from the past

February 17, 2006

Last time I was at my parents’ house they gave me load of floppy disks of mine that they’d found whilst clearing out. Most of them were full of rubbish or corrupted, but one had a few pictures I’d taken whilst at St. Bede’s with an early digital camera. My best guess is that they [...]

HantsLUG March Meeting

February 16, 2006

The next meeting will be a Bring-a-Box meeting at Park Hall Church Hall in Aldershot on Saturday 4th March. If you have not attended one of our meetings before, please read the information about the venue on the wiki. All the regular B-a-B procudures also apply. Post on the mailing list if you have any [...]

Desktop follows laptop

February 8, 2006

As you might have gathered from yesterday’s post I’ve moved my desktop over to Ubuntu, following the success with my laptop. The installation itself went fine, although there’s still no kernel support for the third IDE channel on my AOpen motherboard (it’s a weird IDE channel that actually runs through the SATA controller). Not long [...]