numbersix.org http://www.numbersix.org Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Unbootable Mac http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2007/10/11/unbootable-mac http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2007/10/11/unbootable-mac#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:39:50 +0000 Ben Scott http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2007/10/11/unbootable-mac/ Note to self: When your Macbook is having repeated issues waking from sleep, don’t sleep it in the middle of installing a big piece of software that has a complicated installer… On forcing a reboot the damned thing hung at the ‘Starting Mac OS X’ scroll bar screen, and stayed hung. Looking at the syslog at the console showed the last boot activity was coreservicesd crashing. Uh Oh, time for some panicked googling.

Solution: Boot into single user mode using Command-S, mount the root filesystem rw, then: mv /Library/Caches /foo followed by reboot. Everything seems fine now, just need to restart that installation ;-)

]]> http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2007/10/11/unbootable-mac/feed Server disk woes over and done with? http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/08/15/server-disk-woes-over-and-done-with http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/08/15/server-disk-woes-over-and-done-with#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:30:57 +0000 Ben Scott http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/08/15/server-disk-woes-over-and-done-with/ I finally managed to get all the relevant modules into an initrd this evening, and managed to upgrade from the SuSE 9.3 stock 2.6.11.4-21.13-bigsmp to the current rpm from SuSE 10.1, 2.6.16.21-0.13-bigsmp. The difference is immense. On excalibur, which is an IBM x335 with dual SCSI drives in a RAID1 mirror, I’ve gone from 2.4MB/sec to 69MB/sec.

A painless process, albeit made a little hairier by having to play ‘hunt-the-dependency’ with drivers in the initrd as LSI seem to have rejigged things since the old kernel.

If only I’d twigged it was a driver issue that was thwarting me sooner… at last I can type ‘ls’ without people whinging at me!

On the bright side, my VIA based dedicated server from BlackCat seems to be coping with the load of teamspeak plus 3 or 4 forums admirably.

]]> http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/08/15/server-disk-woes-over-and-done-with/feed Ominous Smoke http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/19/ominous-smoke http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/19/ominous-smoke#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:48:58 +0000 Ben Scott http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/19/ominous-smoke/ Saw this on the way to the bus in Cottenham after work tonight - thought it looked rather ominous, but I suppose things are rather flammable given it’s about 35° at the moment.

Ominous Smoke

]]> http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/19/ominous-smoke/feed BBQ! Punting! Pimms! http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/16/bbq-punting-pimms http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/16/bbq-punting-pimms#comments Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:41:19 +0000 Mark http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/16/bbq-punting-pimms/ So I managed to tag along to the ARM BBQ with David and Kate. There was food, drink, dodgems, drink, ice cream, drink, punting and drink. There was rather a lot of drink. It seems ARM know how to put on a do, go check the pictures.
All that and David fell in the Cam.

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It was a good day ;)

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]]> http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/12/public-service-graffiti/feed First Post! http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/10/first-post http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/10/first-post#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:22:49 +0000 Mark http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/10/first-post/ Yes… So I’m posting here now, expect nothing helpful or interesting from me :P

I do bring pictures though.

]]> http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/07/10/first-post/feed More money than sense? http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/06/11/more-money-than-sense http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/06/11/more-money-than-sense#comments Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:55:01 +0000 Ben Scott http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/06/11/more-money-than-sense/ Saw this on the way to the shops for some barbecue supplies.

Silly number plate

Yes, I know it has received the attention it was seeking, but still, to me, this seems like a really rather pointless waste of money. More, well, personal personalised numberplates I can sort of see the point of - after all, I’ve no objection to vanity domains, but this one… It’s a car. We know this from the four wheels and general car like shape. It’s an M6. It says so just above the number plate. No added information, what’s the point?

]]> http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/06/11/more-money-than-sense/feed New Live Header Image http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/06/05/new-live-header-image http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/06/05/new-live-header-image#comments Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:07:43 +0000 Ben Scott http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/06/05/new-live-header-image/ I thought it was about time I put something nice and dynamic in my site header, shamelessly being… umm… inspired by the Live header at Mike Davidson’s blog and the realisation that a 640×480 badly compressed network camera image doesn’t really do the view I have over Midsummer Common in Cambridge justice. I had an old Canon Powershot G2 lying around (it got replaced by something that fitted into a pocket more easily), and a slightly dodgy laptop running XP that was collecting dust. Combine the two with a USB cable and the appropriate drivers and you have a rather oversized webcam. Add in the timelapse mode in PSRemote, using an upload script as my ‘Image Editing’ software and everything is in place locally to squirt a snapshot to my web server every 5 minutes.

At the remote end things get copied from the FTP drop box into the relevant webspace. The raw file is then processed by some PHP and cached ready for use as the header. I would post the code here, but am a) lazy and b) haven’t had a chance to check for obvious screw-ups I don’t want to admit in public!

Of course, the temptation now is to try and do more stuff with the images - motion detection and storing interesting images seem obvious ideas, although I’m sure I’ll think of more that’ll also never see the light of day!

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]]> http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/05/28/im-to-rss/feed Testing lifeblog with the N80 http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/05/22/testing-lifeblog-with-the-n80 http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/05/22/testing-lifeblog-with-the-n80#comments Mon, 22 May 2006 13:02:50 +0000 Ben (Mobile) http://www.numbersix.org/blog/2006/05/22/testing-lifeblog-with-the-n80/

Testing lifeblog with the N80, originally uploaded by Skaffen.

View from the office, taken through a window with my N80’s main camera.

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