Madly geeking
It’s been a little quiet on the blogging front for a while. Stuff happening out there in the real word. Though a lot of that stuff is geeking. Hmmm. Real world? anyway what’s been happening?
- Decided that after about 7 years, it was time for a new desktop. the old one wasn’t bad, 1 gig processor, which for it’s time was reasonable, but the thing holding me back was the motherboard only supporting a maximum of 512MB !! Back then this was a fair old whack. Now?
so, rollout the new Quad core 2.5ghz with 4gig of Ram, and a switch to sata drives. The motherboard supports raid, so I had thought I might have a play with that… but at the mo I am sticking with feeling like I have muchos space (over half a terabyte!! in fact there is over 1TB of storage available in the house at the moment. who’d a thought it in 2001?)
- So naturally most of the geeking centres around the new toy in it’s shiny black case, especially as I built it from scratch.
- Installed Ubuntu
- Played with compiz
- got the network printer up and running (cups makes it so easy)
- Set up Samba to allow file sharing on my old PC, and to provide some backup capabilities. (lost a bit of data over the summer due to an admittedly careless windows reinstall
) - In terms of Colourphon development, this has mostly centred around a refactoring exersize. I have been working out the best model to use to integrate the store into the colouphon workflow - and indeed that lead to thinking about the workflow generally. Not much code written as yet…
Things to do in next few months?
- Get around to getting a proper PCI-E graphics card to replace the extra PCI card borrowed from the old PC.
- Concentrate on the data model for Colourphon and submitting stuff to the store.
- Not to forget the real world either… there’s camping trips to plan too.